Methodologies of possibility: feminist ethics as justice-oriented research

• Published in: International journal of qualitative studies in education Vol. 35; no. 10; pp. 1067 - 1084
• Main Authors: Elfreich, Alycia, Dennis, Barbara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 26-11-2022; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Activism; communitarianism; Communities of Practice; Ethics; Feminism; Feminist ethics; qualitative methodology; Research Methodology; Social Bias; Social Justice; Theory Practice Relationship
• ISSN: 0951-8398; 1366-5898
• DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061735

The primary goal of this paper is to introduce ethical practices engaged by the Feminist Research Collective (FRC) so that we might push into the theoretical dialogue on feminist ethics. The authors offer a corrective to feminist communitarian ethics that advances its justice potential through research by both critiquing and developing feminist communitarianism toward research practices. The authors draw on the work of the FRC re-envision methodologies of possibility, linking theories of praxis, communitarianism, and feminism to link collective social justice with methodological engagements. The paper is organized into four sections: (a) Feminist Communities: Communitarian Ethics and Utopianism; (b) Feminist Ethics as Collective Resistance; (c) Feminist Ethics as Methodologies of Possibility; and (d) Feminist Justice Ethics: Communitarianism Re-Envisioned Through the Praxis of Methodologies of Possibility.