Doing Feminist Urban Research

Linda Peake, FRSC, is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto, Canada where she was also Director of the City Institute (2013–2023). She is PI on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanisation, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network (GenUrb), a Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation, and an Associate Editor on the AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. Her latest publications include the books Urbanisation in a Global Context (2nd edition, edited with Alison Bain, 2022), A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (edited with Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü Tanyildiz, Raj Narayanareddy, and darren patrick, 2021), and the forthcoming Elgar Handbook on Gender and Cities (edited with Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and AninditaDatta).Nasya S. Razavi was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2019–2024) and is lead researcher on the Cochabamba City Research Team (CRT). She is currently the Latin America Program Manager at Inter Pares, a feminist social justice organisation based in Ottawa. Nasya completed her PhD at the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, in 2019, which she has published with Routledge as Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War. Nasya adopts a feminist decolonial approach to her work in international development, gender, and environmental and social justice.Araby Smyth was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2021–2024), researching place ecologies of fnance and debt. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. Her research has been funded by the Antipode Foundation,National Science Foundation (USA), and Society of Woman Geographers. She has published in geography journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She is an editor on the Editorial Collective of the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

• Introducing GenUrb,Linda Peake, Araby Smyth, and Nasya S. Razavi Part I. The building blocks for decolonising feminist urban researchChapter 1. Feminist comparative urban researchLinda Peake, Mel Mikhail, and Elsa Koleth Chapter 2. Decolonising feminist knowledge productionElsa Koleth and Linda PeakeChapter 3. Feminist engagements with translationWiley Sharp Chapter 4. Feminist scholar-activismMantha Katsikana Part II. The context of 21st-century feminist urban research and policyChapter 5. Feminist urban research in the time of COVID-19Mel Mikhail Chapter 6. Feminist urban policy and the Sustainable Development GoalsNasya S. Razavi and Linda Peake Part III. Feminist research standardsChapter 7. Feminist research ethicsLinda Peake and Wiley Sharp Chapter 8. Professional standards in feminist researchAraby Smyth Chapter 9. Partnerships and teamwork in feminist collaborationsAraby Smyth Chapter 10. Data management in feminist research projectsMel Mikhail Part IV. Feminist methodologies and research methodsChapter 11. Feminist methodologies and methodsLinda Peake and Mel MikhailChapter 12. Feminist approaches to fieldworkAraby Smyth, Elsa Koleth and Linda PeakeChapter 13. Feminist geo-ethnographyAraby Smyth and Linda PeakeChapter 14. Feminist interviewsAraby Smyth,Elsa Koleth, and Linda PeakePart V. Feminist data analysis Chapter 15. Feminist practices of translation and interpretingCarmen PonceChapter 16. Feminist approaches to qualitative data analysisLinda Peake and Elsa Koleth Chapter 17. Software-aided analysis for feminist researchBiftu Yousuf Chapter 18. Using NVivo in feminist researchBiftu Yousef Part VI. Feminist approaches to knowledge mobilisationChapter 19. Knowledge mobilisation in a feminist projectAraby Smyth, Linda Peake, and Jenna Blower Chapter 20. Feminist engagement with social mediaMantha Katsikana