Gendering the Crisis: Claiming New Values and Agencies beyond Destitution

As chance would have it, writing this chapter coincided with my preparing a course on feminist research, to be taught at a new master’s program in gender studies at one of the leading social and political science universities in Athens. I agonized over putting together the syllabus, particularly anxious about how to approach issues of performing (and problematizing) mastery and epistemic authority through notions of reflexivity and situated knowledge production, not only as topics relevant to the course, but also in the context of how I myself am positioned and interpellated, teaching as a woman and a feminist researcher in