Vulnerable Witness

The Politics of Grief in the Field

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-02
Mått140 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520297852

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Kathryn Gillespie is a feminist geographer and critical animal studies scholar. Her work has been published in Gender, Place and Culture, Antipode, and Hypatia. She is the author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389, and she coedited, with Patricia J. Lopez, Economies of Death. Patricia J. Lopez is Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Her work has been published in Gender, Place and Culture, and Environment and Planning. She is the coeditor, with Kathryn Gillespie, of Economies of Death.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPatricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie1. “With You, Time Flowed Like Water”: Geographies of Grief across International Research CollaborationsJessie Hanna Clark2. Grieving Guinea Pigs: Refl ections on Research and Shame in PeruMaría Elena García3. An Immigrant in Academia: Navigating Grief and PrivilegeYolanda Valencia4. The Mongoose Trap: Grief, Intervention, and the Impossibility of Professional DetachmentElan Abrell5. The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological GriefAmy Spark6. Scale-Blocking Grief: Witnessing the Intimate between a Confl ict Leopard and Confi nementKalli F. Doubleday7. On Missing People in the FieldDavid Boarder Giles8. Grieving Daughter, Grieving WitnessAbigail H. Neely9. The Researcher-Witness of Violence against Queers: One Scholar-Activist’s Pathway through LamentWilliam J. Payne10. Unsteady Hands: Care and Grief for Conservation SubjectsJenny R. Isaacs11. Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective Ecological FieldworkCleo Woelfl e-Erskine12. Witnessing Grief: Feminist Perspectives on the Loss-Body-Mind-Self-Other Nexus and Permissionto Express FeelingsAvril Maddrell and Elizabeth Olson13. Self-Care and Trauma: Locating the Time and Space to GrieveDana CuomoEpiloguePatricia J. Lopez and Kathryn GillespieContributorsIndex