ENCOUNTERING A FEMINIST LITERATURE REVIEW WITH(IN) MATHEMATICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

In the encounters between researchers interested in doing a literature review about feminist research with(in) mathematics education, a problematization of literature review methodologies in mathematics education was set in motion. Driven by the desire to have the literature review as a constitutive part of the research process, we create a circulation zone between a commonly used literature review method, the systematic literature review, and what we are calling here a feminist literature review. We argue that conventional literature review methods carry strong theoretical assumptions, many of which align with quantitative- positivist research approaches. These often conflict with the theoretical-methodological assumptions of the researchers who adopt them, as in our case, specifically with the feminist perspective guiding our research. We thus propose a feminist literature review, not merely as a review of feminist research in Mathematics Education, but as the mobilization of feminist theoretical-methodological concepts within the literature review process. This includes concepts such as situated knowledge and affect as apparatuses for engaging with/in the phenomenon while relating to the literature. In this way, the literature review process can be seen-sensed as an important terrain to create relationships-encounters with both research and researchers, while recognizing the agentic force of the literature on us. It allows us to come closer to different ways of knowing-doing research in entanglement with the literature, mathematical practices, feminisms, humans and non-humans, languages, search engines, and so on. In this terrain, we affect and are affected by literature, and its encounters open up new directions-connections that allow us to move away from existing patriarchal, excluding norms in academia.