Feminist Research Methods and Intersectionality: An Introduction to the Focus Section

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What makes feminist research in geography intersectional? Are all identities included in intersectional thinking? Is intersectionality, as theory and method, for all geographers and geographies? These questions push us to consider the tools and perspectives necessary to incorporate intersectionality into geographic methods and feminist geography research. Intersectionality-associated investigations of raced, gendered, and classed experiences and place-making have employed a wide variety of research methods. This collection of articles integrates intersectionality and feminist methods in geography. In particular, the authors push our collective thinking through geographic phenomena and intersectionality as methodology along four themes: interrogating power and power relations, foregrounding lived experiences in multiple subjugated identities, with concern and care for reflexivity, and in the rethinking of geographical methods and data. This introduction engages scholarship in Black feminist thought and feminist geography with the contributions from the focus section.