ABSTRACT
This chapter situates the GenUrb project within the context of decolonising knowledge production in feminist urban research. It starts with a brief discussion of what GenUrb understands by ‘the decolonisation of knowledge production’ then focuses on an interrogation of GenUrb through the micropolitics of transnational feminist praxis. It deconstructs presumptions of feminist affinity and collectivity by attending to intersecting lines of spatial and temporal difference that disrupt imagined geographies of the global North and South, with a specific focus on the role of the transient labour of junior scholars and students in the feminist knowledge-creation processes of peer-mentoring, training, and co-learning. It brings to the fore the generative possibilities of creating feminist knowledges through cultivating early-career and student-researcher growth and contributions. As such, this chapter focuses on academic spaces in a feminist transnational project that rarely receive the level of ethnographic attention given to sites of fieldwork in decolonising feminist scholarship.
