Vignette 1: The play I could not publish
-
Laurel Borisenko
Abstract
This vignette begins with a scene from a reader’s theatre play, written by the author about her research experience. The author’s creative reflection through her own storytelling provides a poignant description of the tensions and complex questions that arise from conducting research that can put both researcher and respondents in a place of insecurity and even violence. The play and following reflection poses questions about vicarious traumatization, resilience, whose voices are heard or suppressed, and what level of insecurity is acceptable to community participants and to researchers.
Abstract
This vignette begins with a scene from a reader’s theatre play, written by the author about her research experience. The author’s creative reflection through her own storytelling provides a poignant description of the tensions and complex questions that arise from conducting research that can put both researcher and respondents in a place of insecurity and even violence. The play and following reflection poses questions about vicarious traumatization, resilience, whose voices are heard or suppressed, and what level of insecurity is acceptable to community participants and to researchers.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on the editors and contributors vi
- Foreword x
- Introduction 1
-
Violence
- Conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death 15
- Qualitative research in the shadow of violent conflict 31
- Vignette 1: The play I could not publish 47
-
Uncertainty
- Ambivalent reflections on violence and peacebuilding: Activist research in Croatia and the wider post-Yugoslav space 55
- Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies 75
- Vignette 2: Packing for Kabul 95
-
Identity and power
- Formidable fieldwork: Experiences of a lesbian researcher in post-conflict Northern Ireland 101
- Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya 119
- Vignette 3: Thinking about race and gender in conflict research 135
-
Technology and social media
- Bodies of cyberwar: Violence and knowledge beyond corporeality 145
- Fields of insecurity: Responding to flows of information 161
- Vignette 4: Visual ethnographic encounters and silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh 179
-
Methods
- Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice 187
- Abetting atrocities? Reporting the perspectives of perpetrators in research on violence 205
- Empathy as a critical methodological tool in peace research 221
- Vignette 5: The limits of a part-time political ethnographer 239
- Index 245
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on the editors and contributors vi
- Foreword x
- Introduction 1
-
Violence
- Conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death 15
- Qualitative research in the shadow of violent conflict 31
- Vignette 1: The play I could not publish 47
-
Uncertainty
- Ambivalent reflections on violence and peacebuilding: Activist research in Croatia and the wider post-Yugoslav space 55
- Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies 75
- Vignette 2: Packing for Kabul 95
-
Identity and power
- Formidable fieldwork: Experiences of a lesbian researcher in post-conflict Northern Ireland 101
- Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya 119
- Vignette 3: Thinking about race and gender in conflict research 135
-
Technology and social media
- Bodies of cyberwar: Violence and knowledge beyond corporeality 145
- Fields of insecurity: Responding to flows of information 161
- Vignette 4: Visual ethnographic encounters and silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh 179
-
Methods
- Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice 187
- Abetting atrocities? Reporting the perspectives of perpetrators in research on violence 205
- Empathy as a critical methodological tool in peace research 221
- Vignette 5: The limits of a part-time political ethnographer 239
- Index 245
