This paper explores some similarities between Feminism, especially intersectionality theory, Post-colonial studies, and Participatory Alternative Development. While the three fields deal with different subject matters they have commonalities such as methodology, historical development, and activism. The three fields have as their goal, not only the accumulation of knowledge but also to strive f...

In “The Art of Rambling: Journeys Through Space and Time”, Sarah LeFanu will look at the travels travel-writings of, predominantly, Mary Kingsley Rose Macaulay, boldly suggest some connections with science fictional spacewomen time-travellers second wave feminism. She talk about five travelling women whose lives span over one hundred years, between them in their writing. By focusing on experien...

For over a quarter century, GROUP has offered premier yet intimate and welcoming venue for agenda-setting, diverse research. Although the traditional focus of conference is on supporting group work, it expanded to include research from computer-supported cooperative sociotechnical studies, practice-centered computing, human-computer interaction, computersupported collaborative learning, partici...

In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn—despite its benefits—is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernis...