Vulnerable Witness

The Politics of Grief in the Field
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29784-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillespie, Kathryn

Lopez, Patricia J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie

1. “With You, Time Flowed Like Water”: Geographies of Grief across International Research Collaborations
Jessie Hanna Clark

2. Grieving Guinea Pigs: Refl ections on Research and Shame in Peru
María Elena García

3. An Immigrant in Academia: Navigating Grief and Privilege
Yolanda Valencia

4. The Mongoose Trap: Grief, Intervention, and the Impossibility of Professional Detachment
Elan Abrell

5. The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological Grief
Amy Spark

6. Scale-Blocking Grief: Witnessing the Intimate between a Confl ict Leopard and Confi nement
Kalli F. Doubleday

7. On Missing People in the Field
David Boarder Giles

8. Grieving Daughter, Grieving Witness
Abigail H. Neely

9. The Researcher-Witness of Violence against Queers: One Scholar-Activist’s Pathway through Lament
William J. Payne

10. Unsteady Hands: Care and Grief for Conservation Subjects
Jenny R. Isaacs

11. Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective Ecological Fieldwork
Cleo Woelfl e-Erskine

12. Witnessing Grief: Feminist Perspectives on the Loss-Body-Mind-Self-Other Nexus and Permission
to Express Feelings
Avril Maddrell and Elizabeth Olson

13. Self-Care and Trauma: Locating the Time and Space to Grieve
Dana Cuomo

Epilogue
Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.