Ethical-political-affective considerations in feminist research: Located articulations between academia and activism

Abstract

The aim of this article is to make theoretical-epistemological reflections based on our articulated experiences of activist research with a feminist perspecÂtive. Based on a process of joint dialogical reflection, we share some clues about the ethical-political-affective dimensions of the research processes. To this end, we put our research processes in dialogue with feminist epistemologies and the exchange with other feminist thinkers-researchers. We propose to value affective relationships and friendship, which allow our research to be more habitable. We are committed to a reflexivity that alÂlows itself to be affected and traversed by emotions as a tool for knowledge. We incorporate the semiotic-material analysis of our own bodies, not to fall into self-reference, but to contemplate their effects on the production of knowledge. In short, we propose other possibilities for the production of knowledge based on bodily experiences, affects and the diverse relationships that we weave and that sustain our research processes in order to collectively build an embodied and situated knowledge, committed to the constitution of livable ways of life.