List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Where Am I in the Picture? An Introduction
Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, and Katarina Giritli Nygren
Section One: Rural Travelscapes
2. Travelling in Circles along Roads Less Travelled in Awe of Open Spaces
Lisa Starr and Claudia Mitchell
3. Saskatchewan Song Cycle: Trans Readings of a Land Survey in the Canadian West
Lou Sheppard
4. Taking to the Woods: Towards Decentralized Research in Protest Movements
Angelika Sjöstedt
5. Picturing Transrurality: Connecting Rural People and Places across Borders
April Mandrona
Section Two: Girlhoods and Rurality as Context
6. Picturing Rurality: Towards a Shared Understanding of What It Means to Study Rurality in Two Country Contexts
Katja Gillander Gådin and Naydene de Lange
7. Drawing Myself into the Picture: What Does It Mean to Be a Rural-Origin Student in an Urban University?
Samukelisiwe Khumalo
8. “Beyond Getting Something”: Reflections on Researching the Closure of a Rural Municipality’s Maternity Ward
Emelie Larsson
9. A Button Thief or a Researcher? Entangled Selves, Positionality, and Knowledge Production
Sara Nyhlén
Section Three: Positionality and the Rural
10. “Hey, Mlungu!”: Positionality in Participatory Visual Research in Post-apartheid South Africa
Lisa Wiebesiek and Astrid Treffry-Goatley
11. Acting like a Skank: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement in the Production of Participatory Visual Research Texts in a Rural Area
Katie MacEntee
12. Positioning Girls in Rural Contexts: Then and Now
Ntomboxolo Yamile
13. Positionality at the Centre: Constructing an Epistemological and Methodological Approach for a Western Feminist Doctoral Candidate Conducting Research in the Postcolonial
Catherine Vanner
14. Going the Distance: Theorizing Forward in the Time of a “Rural Turn”
Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane
Contributors
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