Abstract
As a graduate student I first came into contact with the work and persons of J. K. Gibson-Graham. As I was mentored and supervised by Katherine Gibson, the piece ‘Building Community Economies: Women and the Politics of Place’ became part of my journey into feminism and feminist post-development research. In this chapter I highlight three principles I have carried with me from that time until now: starting where you are, seeing diversity and multiplying possibility. With reference to my own developing research interests, I explore how Gibson-Graham’s work is relevant and inspiring in a third-wave feminist context.
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Dombroski, K. (2016). Seeing Diversity, Multiplying Possibility: My Journey from Post-feminism to Post-development with J. K. Gibson-Graham. In: Harcourt, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3_21
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