Methodological desire lines
Engaging with feminist and anti-racist approaches to researching health and place
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8133758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadha Hassen (0000-0003-0214-6655, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14687941251406047 |
| OpenAlex | W7118502058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This interdisciplinary Research Note is a reflection on a community-engaged qualitative research project that sought to integrate feminist and anti-racist principles. This Note reflects on a community-engaged project, Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities , with racialized and underserved communities to examine experiences and health equity in public urban greenspaces in Toronto, Canada. Inspired by the photographs and stories of the residents who participated in the project, the author explores what it means to move off the paths commonly travelled in research, using desire lines as a metaphor for what it means to conduct interdisciplinary research in partnership with communities, tending to both processes and outcomes with care and thought. By unpacking the words, ideas and concepts of other feminist and anti-racist scholars, the author examines the alternate paths sometimes required of qualitative research and the embodied experiences of being both insider and outsider in conducting community-based participatory research
Citizen journalism · Cognitive reframing · Embodied cognition · General partnership · Insider · Metaphor · Participatory action research · Perception · Photovoice · Qualitative research · Community Health and Development · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Participatory Visual Research Methods
Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center
Defining greenspace
Narratives of exclusion
Photovoice
Greensplaining environmental justice
Soundwalking and the Bodily Exploration of Places
Lessons Learned From Undertaking Community-Based Participatory Research Dissertations
Ethical Dilemmas in Community-Based Participatory Research
What Shapes Uneven Access to Urban Amenities? Thick Injustice and the Legacy of Racial Discrimination in Denver’s Parks
Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research
Race, Space, and Nature
Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession
Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy
Inequities in the quality of urban park systems
The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race
Living a Feminist Life
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship
Orientations
Decolonizing Methodologies
Toward a More Comprehensive Type of Analysis in Photovoice Research
Bringing Your Whole Self to Research
The Space Between
Unveiling racism through qualitative research
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field
Achieving co-presence when together and apart
So what's arts got to do with it
| Highly cited | No |
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