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Contribution short abstract

The proposed intervention reflects on the importance and impact of feminist, arts-based methodologies in carving out spaces for reflection, care and solidarity, in contexts marked by significant violence and insecurity.

Contribution long abstract

Mode of delivery: Reflective presentation

Contribution: Reflecting on ongoing research addressing racialised gender-based violence in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, our proposed intervention explores the importance and impact of feminist, arts-based methodologies in carving out spaces for reflection, care and solidarity, in contexts marked by significant violence and insecurity. We reflect on how a need to prioritise safety, collective wellbeing and respite for research participants involved convening creative workshops in places outside Esmeraldas province, and explore how this reconfigures the conditions of feminist knowledge production. This spatial and ethical intervention has enabled opportunities for calmness, connection and enjoyment, in turn centring the agency and creative capacities of the peer researchers and opening up possibilities for sensitively tackling the topic of gender-based violence. We explore the ways in which this reconfiguring of care, safety and autonomy requires a commitment to process over outcomes, and consider the implications of this for feminist knowledge co-production in and beyond the academy.