Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field

Author:   Kathryn Gillespie ,  Patricia J. Lopez
Publisher:   University of California Press
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   02 July 2019
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Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field


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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. 

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Author:   Kathryn Gillespie ,  Patricia J. Lopez
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520297845


ISBN 10:   0520297849
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   02 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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

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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. 

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