Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, Canada.Courtney Donovan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment, San Francisco State University, USA.

• Introduction 1. Muddling intimacy methodologically Part I: Methodological challenges 2. An uncomfortable position: making sense of field encounters through intimate reflections 3. ‘I’m here, I hate it and I can’t cope anymore’: writing about suicide 4. In the skin: intimate acts in economic globalization 5. Navigating intimate insider status: bridging audiences through writing and presenting Part II: Emergent effects of including one’s own story 6. Intimate creativity: using creative practice to express intimate worlds 7. Writing/drawing experiences of silence and intimacy in fieldwork relationships 8. Open for business? First forays into collaborative autobiographical writing in extractive northern British Columbia 9. Walking the line between professional and personal: using autobiography in invisible disability research 10. Are we sitting comfortably? Doing-writing to embody thinking-with Part III: Multiple aspects of researching intimacy 11. Accelerating intimacy? Digital health and humanistic discourse 12. To hold and be held: engaging with suffering at end of life through a consideration of personal writing 13. Inhabiting research, accessing intimacy, becoming collective 14. Intimacy, animal emotion and empathy: multispecies intimacy as slow research practice Part IV: Analytical methods as part of writing 15. Bearing witness to geographies of life and death: intimate writing and violent geographies 16. Becoming fieldnotes 17. Hiding in the garden: autoethnography and intimate spaces 18. Death, dying and decision-making in an intensive care unit: tracing micro-connections through auto-methods 19. Places of the open season 20. Concluding remarks: intimate research acts