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In my new @IFJPglobal article, I draw from my fieldwork in Colombia to reflect on four ethical and methodological dilemmas of narrating victimhood during transitions from violence.
A brief thread summarizing key insights: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
A brief thread summarizing key insights: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
I reflect on how to direct the research gaze at a time when, as one Colombian interlocutor told me, "everyone wants to talk to a victim of war."
Relatedly, I explore how to investigate violence without requiring people to re-narrate "war stories." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
Relatedly, I explore how to investigate violence without requiring people to re-narrate "war stories." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
One of the thorniest challenges has been that of anonymity, whereby the priorities of university ethics committees often clash with my research participants' desire to be known and identified by their names. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
I discuss the "tug of loyalties" in which the researcher becomes entangled when her interlocutors include former combatants, victims of war, and people whose experiences span and defy the labels and categories. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
Motivating me has been a need to embrace and candidly reflect on the ethical, methodological, and narrative messiness of telling stories about victimhood.
I argue ethics and methods are inseparable from each other, and from the politics of victimhood. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
I argue ethics and methods are inseparable from each other, and from the politics of victimhood. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
I use the word 'victim' because it reflects the preferences of my interlocutors, who understand it not as a passive, agency-less description of having suffered harm, but as a potentially powerful political status during transitions from violence. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2020.1861961
I'm thankful for funding support from @NSF @USIP @SSRC_IDRF @WorldPeaceFdtn.
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As ever, I'm gratefully indebted to my interlocutors in Colombia and humbled by everything they teach me about violence, justice, and care.
DM me for an article copy if you don't have access.
As ever, I'm gratefully indebted to my interlocutors in Colombia and humbled by everything they teach me about violence, justice, and care.
