Feminist cooperative inquiry
Grassroots women define and deepen empowerment through dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sujata Khandekar (0000-0002-3948-4810, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, corresponding author), Vinaya Ghewde (CORO India, Mumbai, India), Anita Kamble (Ankur, Kej, India), Anwari Khan (CORO India, Mumbai, India), Pallavi Palav (CORO India, Mumbai, India), Dwarka Pawar (Grameen Vikas Kendra, Ahmadnagar, India), Sheela Pawar (CORO India, Mumbai, India), Mumtaz Shaikh (CORO India, Mumbai, India), Lakshmi Lingam (0000-0001-9762-1839, Tata Institute of Social Sciences) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-283 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750320960807 |
| OpenAlex | W3088544139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper is an account of feminist research influenced by Cooperative Inquiry (CI) described as Feminist Cooperative Inquiry. A team of grassroots women leaders-turned-co-researchers, from different marginalised social locations (on gender, caste, class, education, livelihood axes) in India, developed this methodology to collectively analyse their own empowering journeys to make meanings of empowerment. The diversity of co-researchers in this research led to making additions or deviations in the CI protocol. By bringing in nonliterate or low-literate women from marginalised groups as coresearchers, the research added political value by extending centre of collective knowledge building towards marginalised groups. The paper also discusses how the research processes further empowered the coresearchers for their own interpretations, abstractions and their selfdefined viewpoint in the domain of empowerment. Calling empowerment as primarily an ‘internal reflective process’ co-researchers defied oversimplified, quantifiable proxy indicators as any measure of empowerment
Caste · Empowerment · Grassroots · Participatory action research · Political science · Politics · Proxy (statistics · Public relations · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |