Vulnerable Witness
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Vulnerable Witness

The Politics of Grief in the Field

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Vulnerable Witness

The Politics of Grief in the Field

About this book

Scholars 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Vulnerable Witness
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. “With You, Time Flowed Like Water”: Geographies of Grief across International Research Collaborations
  9. 2. Grieving Guinea Pigs: Reflections on Research and Shame in Peru
  10. 3. An Immigrant in Academia: Navigating Grief and Privilege
  11. 4. The Mongoose Trap: Grief, Intervention, and the Impossibility of Professional Detachment
  12. 5. The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological Grief
  13. 6. Scale-Blocking Grief: Witnessing the Intimate between a Conflict Leopard and Confinement
  14. 7. On Missing People in the Field
  15. 8. Grieving Daughter, Grieving Witness
  16. 9. The Researcher-Witness of Violence against Queers: One Scholar-Activist’s Pathway through Lament
  17. 10. Unsteady Hands: Care and Grief for Conservation Subjects
  18. 11. Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective Ecological Fieldwork
  19. 12. Witnessing Grief: Feminist Perspectives on the Loss-Body-Mind-Self-Other Nexus and Permission to Express Feelings
  20. 13. Self-Care and Trauma: Locating the Time and Space to Grieve
  21. Epilogue
  22. Contributors
  23. Index