Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the gendered challenges faced by planning researchers at the outset of fieldwork, offering a reflexive and holistic analysis of researcher identity, conflicting positionalities, and the politics of representation. Drawing on my fieldwork diary, I critically revisit the research process to disrupt structural gender‑based silences embedded within state‑led planning regimes shaped by socio‑cultural norms and developmental‑state legacies in Taiwan. Through feminist reflexivity, the paper demonstrates how moments of internal tension, ethical dilemma, and embodied discomfort can evolve into sites of critical awareness and methodological growth. In doing so, it highlights reflexivity not only as a methodological tool but also as an ethical practice for challenging hierarchical and gendered power relations within planning research and practice.
Source: Planning Theory & Practice
Author: Ying-Chun (Nancy) Hou
Institution: Cardiff University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166580274