Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead

Abstract Feminist geographers have highlighted the significance of attending to the embodied, affective, and emotionally charged relationships that exist between researchers and participants during qualitative research. And yet, taking research back to participants for post‐fieldwork feedback remains an often invisiblised aspect of qualitative inquiry. This is unfortunate, as scholarly attentiveness to these encounters may yield valuable insights. Such insights may be of particular relevance to feminist scholars who seek to foster research spaces of mutual respect and accountability and those researching in ways that prioritise bodily knowledges. In what follows, I explore a post‐fieldwork encounter with a participant that occurred after offering participants in my PhD research the opportunity to provide feedback on draft interpretive chapters. I discuss how the research's methodological emphasis on bodily movement may have influenced the participant's response to interpretive chapters. I also reflect on my embodied, emotional and effective responses to the participant's feedback. In questioning my attempts as a feminist researcher to negotiate power ethically with the participant, I seek to contribute to growing discussions around doing feminist research and being a feminist researcher in methodological contexts that let the body lead.