Feministing in Political Science

Edited by Alana Cattapan, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Fiona MacDonald, and Stephanie Paterson
Categories: Political Science, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Social Sciences, Public & Social Policy, Philosophy, Regional & Cultural Studies
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9781772127324, 424 pages, May 2024
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781772127461, 416 pages, June 2024
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772127478, 416 pages, June 2024
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Table of contents

 

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1. Introduction: Disrupting Political Science Through Feministing? / Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Stephanie Paterson, Alana Cattapan, Fiona MacDonald

Temporality and the Case for Transformation

2. “Diversity Is Important, but Only When it is the ‘Right’ Type of Diversity”: Canadian Political Science and the Limitations of An Additive Approach to Equity / Ethel Tungohan

3. Being “Reasonable” (whilst Feminist and Black) within the Neoliberal University / Nicole S. Bernhardt

4. The Fish and the Spider / Alana Cattapan

5. Anti-rRcist and Indigenous Feminism and the Generative Power of Disruption / Elaine Coburn, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, and Gina Starblanket

 

 

Relationality, Community, and Care

6. “Your Absence is Not an Accident: Storying Feminist Friendship from Dissonance to Dissidence” / Kelly Aguirre, Mariam Georgis, Sarah Munawar

7. Disrupting Feminism / Confronting Ableism / Michael Orsini

8. Indigenous Feminisms and Political Science: Indigenization and Epistemological Barriers to Inclusion / Emily Grafton

9. Feministing Online: Using the Internet to Learn New Things and Create Community / Amanda Bittner 10. Conversations in Feminist Solidarity: Reflecting on the Political Science PHD Experience / Lindsay Larios and Manon Laurent

11. Don’t Be an Asshole / Stephanie Paterson

 

 

Feministing and the “Real” World of Politics

12. Letters of Engagement: Learning from Our Efforts at Feministing Public Policy Deliberations / Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Alana Cattapan, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, and April Mandrona

13. Feministing: Lessons from Bill C-237, the Candidate Gender Equity Act / Jeanette Ashe

14. Feministing on the Campaign Trail: Dialogue with Kimberley Ens Manning, Nadia Verrelli, and Melanee Thomas / Edited by Alana Cattapan and Fiona MacDonald

 

 

Gatekeeping, Pedagogy, and Mentoring

15. Radical Pedagogies for the Present: Vignettes on Decolonial Feminist Potentials

in the Classroom / David Semaan

16. Reworlding the Canadian University: Centring Student Leadership in Institutional Transformation / Jamilah A.Y. Dei-Sharpe and Kimberley Ens Manning

17. Photo Voice as Feminist Pedagogy / Fiona MacDonald

18. Learning to Relinquish Silence: Feministing in Political Science as an Ethicopolitical Project / Nick Dorzweiler

 

(Re)building Political Science

19. Towards an Agenda for Feministing Political Science: Intersectional Feminist Pathways / Chamindra Weerawardhana

20. “Refusal has Been Really Important in My Life”: Political Science Aunties Discuss Feministing in Political Science / Dialogue with Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Kiera L. Ladner, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, and Leah F. Vosko / Edited by Ethel Tungohan and Alana Cattapan

21. En Route to a Black Feminist Praxis: Reflections of a Black Woman Graduate Student / Tka C. Pinnock

22. Conclusion / The Editorial Collective

23. Contributors

 

 

 

Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university.

Description

Focusing on the discipline of political science, this collection examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. As the study of politics and political life, the mainstream of the discipline has examined power in the institutions and processes of government. But if the personal is political, political science is about much more than what happens in those institutions. This collection draws together personal essays, pedagogical interventions, dialogues, and original research to reflect on how “feministing” as an orientation and as an analytic can centre experiential knowledge and reshape our understandings of political science. Collectively, these contributions lay bare the ways that power moves in and through the academy, naming the impacts on those who are most structurally precarious, all while pointing to potential futures made possible by refusal, solidarity, and hope.

Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Kelly Aguirre, Jeanette Ashe, Nicole S. Bernhardt, Amanda Bittner, Alana Cattapan, Elaine Coburn, Jamilah A.Y. Dei-Sharpe, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Nick Dorzweiler, Tammy Findlay, Mariam Georgis, Emily Grafton, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Kiera L. Ladner, Lindsay Larios, Manon Laurent, Fiona MacDonald, April Mandrona, Kimberley Ens Manning, Sarah Munawar, Nisha Nath, Michael Orsini, Stephanie Paterson, Tka C. Pinnock, David Semaan, Gina Starblanket, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Melanee Thomas, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Ethel Tungohan, Nadia Verrelli, Leah F. Vosko, Chamindra Weerawardhana.

Reviews

“Diverse voices use scholarly pieces, personal reflections, stories, letters, and dialogues to highlight how they have pushed back against the entrenched norms and practices of the discipline. The insights in Feministing in Political Science will resonate with academics as well as students.” Jocelyne Praud, Vancouver Island University

“This collection offers an intersectional feminist critique of both the discipline of political science in Canada and the contemporary Canadian university system. The contributors illuminate the ways in which the discipline continues to fail Canada by systematically excluding or muting certain voices. They then move the conversation about the discipline forward in numerous ways.” Lisa Young, University of Calgary