Vulnerable witness : the politics of grief in the field / Kathryn Gillespie and Patricia J. Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Kathryn (Kathryn A.), author.

Lopez, Patricia J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Political aspects.

Grief.

Research--Political aspects.

Research.

Research--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Grieving Witnesses: The Politics of Grief in the Field centers reflections on grieving as part of the research process and, by extension, as a political act of witnessing. The book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research - in methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with the individuals, populations, and places we study, the way scholars write and talk about their subjects, and the ethical dimensions of these encounters. Each chapter offers a grounded engagement with the act of research through narrative and autoethnographic reflections, drawing together those who study and grieve humans, animals, and the environment"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie

"With you, time flowed like water" : geographies of grief across international research collaborations / Jessie Hanna Clark

Grieving guinea pigs : reflections on research and shame in Peru / María Elena García

An immigrant in academia : navigating grief and privilege / Yolanda Valencia

The mongoose trap : grief, intervention, and the impossibility of professional detachment / Elan Abrell

The authentic hypocrisy of ecological grief / Amy Spark

Scale-blocking grief : witnessing the intimate between a conflict leopard and confinement / Kalli F. Doubleday

On missing people in the field / David Henry Galen Boarder Giles

Grieving daughter, grieving witnesses / Abigail H. Neely

The researcher-witness of violence against queers : one scholar-activist's pathway through lament / William J. Payne

Unsteady hands : care and grief for conservation subjects / Jenny R. Isaacs

Grieving salmon and the politics of collective ecological fieldwork / Cleo Woelfle-Erskine

Witnessing grief : feminist perspectives on the loss-body-mind-self-other nexus and permission to express feelings / Avril Maddrell and Elizabeth Olson /

Self-care and trauma : locating the time and space to grieve / Dana Cuomo

Conclusion / Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gillespie, Kathryn (Kathryn A.), author. Vulnerable witness

ISBN:

9780520297845

0520297849

9780520297852

0520297857

OCLC:

1082328817