On the politics of discomfort
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4869261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachelle Chadwick (0000-0002-7526-8592, University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 556-574 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700120987379 |
| OpenAlex | W3124604646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 50 |
This article engages the politics of discomfort as a critical but neglected dimension of feminist methodologies and research praxis. Discomfort is explored as a 'sweaty concept' that opens space for transformative praxis and the emergence of feminist forms of knowing, being and resisting. I theorise discomfort as an epistemic and interpretive resource and a lively actant in research encounters, fieldwork and analytic and theory-praxis spaces. Building on the work of Clare Hemmings and Sara Ahmed, I trace discomfort as an affective intensity that matters for opening up resistant and anti-colonial feminist research practices and modes of knowledge production. Starting, and staying, with discomfortis theorised as a form of resistance to the reiteration of comfortable and normative truths and 'wilful ignorances'. Weaving together the work of postqualitative and postcolonial feminist theorists, the sticky praxis of discomfort is conceptualised as involving a number of research strategies, including: (1) engaging with 'gut feelings' and (2) embracing interpretive hesitancy. In moving beyond an idealisation of empathy as the central affective principle underlying feminist research praxis, this article explores the epistemic and political salience of discomfort as affective intensity, 'sweaty concept' and potentially transformative interpretive resource
Aesthetics · Empathy · Epistemology · Feminism · Pedagogy · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Transformative learning · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |