Ethnography and Researcher Positionality

In our article, we reflect on our respective ethnographic projects in Sweden and Finland among feminist women, girls, and non-binary people who are hip hop practitioners and/or artists. We focus on the intersectional analysis of our situatedness as white women scholars, reflecting on how our various identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences, such as being a DJ or “hip hop head,” affected our work in these specific contexts and hence also our knowledge production. In addition to feminist ethnography and critical race and whiteness studies as theoretical-methodological points of departure, we follow hip hop feminist principles outlined by Black women scholars such Gwendolyn D. Pough (2007: vii) as we “complicate understandings of hip-hop as a male space by including and identifying the women [...] involved with the culture,” and connect “personal narratives with theoretical underpinnings and critique.”