About

From diverse experiences, this workshop proposes to create a space for dialogue about conflicts, dilemmas and reflections that arise in the design and implementation of research and writing methodologies that include feminist perspectives in the preparation of a doctoral thesis. The participants will present how they faced the challenge of the methodological design of their thesis, which conflicts they faced, reflections and changes in the process and also the doubts and questions that have not been solved yet. This workshop is intended for other students who are starting their thesis project and for other experienced researchers in a dynamic of horizontal co-learning and democratisation of knowledge. The second objective of this workshop is to create a climate of discussion which understands scientific research as a space for mutual support and dialogue which moves away from the logic of capitalist, patriarchal and ableist scientific production based on competition, self-exploitation, individualism and a supposed innate capacity for intellectual exercise.

The session will be introduced by Teresa Cunha (CES), who will summarise the objective of the workshop, introduce the participants and make the final comments. Each participant will speak for 10 minutes and, once the interventions are finished, there will be a round of reflections, questions and debate among the participants. The workshop will be held in Spanish and Portuguese.

Programme

The ins and outs of fieldwork. Waiting, being patient and bonding with the group when you are not welcome. By Miriam del Pino Molina
Miriam del Pino Molina is a social worker and anthropologist.  She is currently working on her PhD thesis in the Feminist and Gender Studies programme at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of Margaret Bullen (UPV/EHU) and Francisco Checa (UAL). The research proposes an analysis of the violence suffered by Fulbe women in their settlement processes in the Basque Country and Andalusia. Her topics of interest are migration, feminist anthropology, postcolonial studies, anthropology of emotions and anthropology of violence.

The will to experiment: a way to mobilise (un)knowledge. By Sabela Fraga Costa 
Sabela Fraga Costa is an art historian and pre-doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra (University of Vigo). Her work as an historian has focused on the connection of cultural associativism in the 1970s in Galicia with the Galician artistic avant-garde, resulting in the exhibition and book "Colección Abrente: arte galega no desafio cultural dos 70". For several years she has been working with visual studies and feminist theories analysing the possibilities of denaturalising the official narrative from the field of image. Besides the theoretical weight, she tries to maintain the link with autonomous feminist activism.

What do you think about my work? Member Checking as a strategy for validating results in qualitative research. By Cristina del Villar Toribio
Cristina del Villar Toribio is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Seville and is doing a doctoral internship at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. Her research deals with care and African migrant women in Andalusia. Her thesis is supervised by Francisco Javier Saavedra (US) and Teresa Cunha (CES-UC). Her topics of interest are cultural psychology, migrations, postcolonial feminisms and qualitative methodologies.

From the phantom of the impostor to Feminist Activist Research (FAR): seeking collective breath to undo new knots and strip away doubts. By Sandra Arencón-Beltrán
Sandra Arencón-Beltrán is a pre-doctoral researcher in the Department of Journalism I and the Interuniversity PhD Programme in Communication at the University of Seville. Her thesis is carried out within the framework of the R+D+i CiberMov project, “Ciberactivismo, Ciudadanía Digital y Nuevos Movimientos Urbanos”. She works with Feminisms in movement from the first feminist general strikes in the Spanish state under supervision of Lucía Benítez-Eyzaguirre and José Candón-Mena. She is conducting a scientific internship at CES-UC under supervision of Gaia Giuliani.
 

Moderator: Teresa Cunha (CES)
She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. She is a senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies and member of the Humanities, Migration and peace Studies Department - University of Coimbra - where she lectures in several PhD Courses, co-coordinates the publication 'Oficina do CES' and the Research Program 'Epistemologies of the South. She co-coordinated the Gender Workshop Series between 2011 and 2022. She is a senior research member of the Centre for Peace Studies Gernika Gogoratuz where she co- coordinates the Research-Action program 'Territories in Conflict , Mozambique'. She coordinates the Advanced School 'Feminist Ecologies of Knowledges'. She is an associated-professor at the College of Education of the Polytechnic College Coimbra and an associate researcher at CODESRIA and the Center for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. In 2017, the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste awarded her with the Order of Timor-Leste. Her research interests are feminisms and postcolonialisms; other feminist economies and women's economies; post war transition, peace and memories; women's human rights in the Indian Ocean space. She has published several scientific books and articles in several countries and languages of which stand out: Women, Territories and Identities (vol 1, 2 and 3) (Ed.), Territories in Conflict (Ed.), Women InPower Women. Other economies created and led by women from the non-imperial south; Never Trust Sindarela. Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Mozambique and Timor-Leste; Essays for Democracy. Justice, dignity and good-living; They in the South and North; Women's Voices of Timor; Timor-Leste: Chronicle of an Observation of Courage; Feto Timor Nain Hitu - Seven Women of Timor; Walking Through Other Paths and Roots of Participation.