Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections
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2021-06-11
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Qualitative Research
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SAGE Publications
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School of Social and Political Sciences
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Fileborn, B. (2021). Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections. Qualitative Research, 23 (2), https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211028797.
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Digital maps have been taken up as a productive tool in both activism and academic research. However, there has been less consideration of their use as a research method in qualitative social sciences research. This paper aims to contribute towards scholarship on qualitative research by providing a critical reflection on the use of digital mapping as a research method in a feminist research project on street-based harassment in Australia. Drawing on practices of reflexivity, as well as comments made by participants across 46 qualitative interviews, I consider how digital mapping can be used to facilitate feminist research, arguing that it represents a generative instrument which lends itself to the development of in-depth insights from participants. Yet, mapping also delimits the epistemological possibilities of qualitative research, and I consider how this method simultaneously constrains what can be known about street harassment.