by Stella Nyanzi and Annah Ashaba
Abstract
We explore the benefits and challenges of undertaking feminist methodologies to investigate the polarised topic of gendered political violence in contemporary Uganda. Drawing from mixed methods research that triangulated key informant interviews with autoethnography, media content analysis and literature review, we analyse components of the research process. We reflexively examine the power of transgenerational feminist collaboration enabled by our shared exclusion in exile, combined with an enabling African feminist intellectual community. Feminist research methodologies are pertinent to a nuanced understanding of the growing paradox of Uganda’s escalating political violence against women and gender minorities amidst widely praised affirmative action. African feminist ethos complicates and challenges normative adherence to principles of research ethics. Feminist methodologies give voice and power to individuals and communities that are ordinarily silenced and erased from traditional academic research.
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