Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This reflection questions how “trauma-informed anthropology” as a method and reflexive praxis undergirding fieldwork evolves: How do attempts to mitigate re-traumatisation shape the meanings of the relationship between researcher and interlocutor? Issues of vicarious trauma are similarly near-impossible to anticipate, and there are few existing structures in place to aid researchers during their fieldwork, particularly as it isolates them from existing structures of care in their own lives. In the steps we have both taken to ensure our safety and that of our interlocutors, we ask: Does the workaround then become part of the practice? Keywords: Trauma, method, positionality, risk, interviews, ethnography.
Source: Teaching Anthropology
Authors: Ava Muhr, Thalia Ostendorf
Institutions: University of Edinburgh, University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405313324