Vulnerable Witness : The Politics of Grief in the Field / Kathryn Gillespie, Patricia J. Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Kathryn (Kathryn A.), author.

University of California Press.

Contributor:

Gillespie, Kathryn, Editor.

Lopez, Patricia J., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Political aspects.

Grief.

Research--Political aspects.

Research.

Research--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "With You, Time Flowed Like Water": Geographies of Grief across International Research Collaborations

2. Grieving Guinea Pigs: Reflections on Research and Shame in Peru

3. An Immigrant in Academia: Navigating Grief and Privilege

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

5. The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological Grief

6. Scale-Blocking Grief: Witnessing the Intimate between a Conflict Leopard and Confinement

7. On Missing People in the Field

8. Grieving Daughter, Grieving Witness

9. The Researcher-Witness of Violence against Queers: One Scholar-Activist's Pathway through Lament

10. Unsteady Hands: Care and Grief for Conservation Subjects

11. Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective Ecological Fieldwork

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

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

Epilogue

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520970038

0520970039

OCLC:

1083186669