ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the relationship between pandemics, urban society, and the conduct of feminist research, focusing on the everyday realities of COVID-19 but considering also the wider relevance to other pandemics and ecological crises. It begins with a general overview of the urban nature of COVID-19 and related pandemics, followed by a discussion of the geographies of social reproduction that have emerged from the pandemic, underpinned by the interlocking dynamics of patriarchy and global racial capitalism. The chapter then turns to consider how research processes are affected by and can be creatively adapted to meet the challenges of these pandemic geographies. The chapter ends with an overview of the role of feminist research in global COVID-19 policy development, with emphasis on the politics of data disaggregation. It emphasises the role of policy development during pandemics, for which intersectional, antiracist feminist urban research is crucial given the lack of congruence between the gendered and racialised realities lived during pandemics and the failures of much policy development to respond to the intersectionality of these experiences.
