Living discomforts in feminist and activist researches: Reflexivity in practice

Abstract

Based on an ongoing research whose purpose is to study the challenges and opportunities for the articulation of political alliances between migrant women organizations and local feminists in the Basque Country, I develop, by a reflective practice, some of the most relevant discomforts arising during this process related to: (i) move in uncertainty, (ii) assume the differences, (iii) speak about the research participants and finally, (iv) live my dual role as researcher and activist. Rather than solving, this reflexive practice is a bet to politicize feminist methodologies and claim the ethics of discomfort as an indispensable tool to live the borderlands between research and activism.