ABSTRACT

Ethnography has at times been accused of being extractivist, taking knowledge from communities without giving anything back in return. This chapter develops feminist actor-network ethnography as a methodological approach that seeks to circumvent the extractivism of traditional ethnography. We did this through an engaged approach in which we became active members of the community we studied in our research on peer breastmilk sharing, creating the social world in view as much as we were studying it. In this process, we forged friendships and actively participated in building online and in-person communities that outlasted our own project. The chapter outlines the pathways of Feminist ANT Ethnography, considering both actor-network theory and feminist ethnography as foundations.