Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the FieldScholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research—from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research. |
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Contents
Geographies | 28 |
Reflections on Research | 40 |
Impossibility of Professional Detachment | 68 |
The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological Grief | 80 |
Witnessing the Intimate | 91 |
On Missing People in the Field | 102 |
Grieving Daughter Grieving Witness | 113 |
Care and Grief | 139 |
Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective | 150 |
Feminist Perspectives on | 162 |
Locating the Time | 174 |
Epilogue | 187 |
Contributors | 199 |
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| Title | Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field |
| Contributors | Kathryn Gillespie, Patricia J. Lopez |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2019 |
| ISBN | 0520297857, 9780520297852 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / General Social Science / Human Geography Social Science / Methodology Social Science / Research |
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