Resources for Feminist Research articles

Recent articles from Resources for Feminist Research

Decolonizing Spaces/Espaces decolonisants.(INTRODUCTION)
March 22, 2008... Decolonizing Spaces is a special issue of Resources for Feminist Research that confronts the longstanding utopian feminist project of seeking possibilities for breaking down barriers and dominant power structures. We conceptualized this issue through the framework of "decolonizing" in hopes...

Community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
March 22, 2008... This paper examines the rewards and problematics of doing community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. British Columbia, It examines how the research process, experiences, and goals of a project may differ depending on one's social location in and outside of the project....

Re/moving forward?: spacing mad degeneracy at the Queen Street site.
March 22, 2008... This article explores the site of the Queen Street Mental Health Centre (now CAMH) in Toronto. The building of Ontario's first asylum in 1850 on this site was a result of moral interventions in order to build Canada as a respectable nation. The site became and has remained a "problem" space...

"So, what's a white girl like me doing in a place like this?": rethinking pedagogical practices in an indigenous context.
March 22, 2008... This article addresses the question of whether a white academic can act as an ally to Native students and faculty in their struggle to "Indigenize" the Canadian university system. Through an analysis of two personal experiences teaching in an Indigenous context, the author argues that...

Re-imagining home and belonging: feminism, nostalgia, and critical memory.
March 22, 2008... I begin this paper with some personal childhood narratives about the ambivalence I associate with the concept of home. I use a visit "back home" to Lebanon as an opportunity for re-imagining home and for understanding what is at stake when we think of home uncritically as a place of safety...