I Don’t Know What to Do with Myself: ‘I’ as a Tool, a Voice, and an Object in Writing
In presenting a story of my own negotiation, I call for careful consideration of ‘I’ as an object, voice, and tool – and how it might entwine with hierarchies.
The Valorisation of Intimacy: How to Make Sense of Disdain, Distance and ‘Data’
A practical and collective reflexivity is indispensable to the type of embedded, ethnographic fieldwork so many of us are now undertaking in the field of IR.
Tears and Laughter: Affective Failure and Mis/recognition in Feminist IR Research
No one knows how or to what extent affect and failure will enter your research. So it may be reassuring to know that affect failure is not a failure of research practice.
Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations
As Postcolonial Theory becomes accepted in the mainstream, how do we control the means through which academia aims to re-invent its as only seemingly more benign?
What Might Have Been Lost: Fieldwork and the Challenges of Translation
The only stories that are possible to be told are the translations of ours or our interlocutors’ experiences located in particular places and in particular times.
Building on Ruins or Patching up the Possible? Reinscribing Fieldwork Failure in IR as a Productive Rupture
Failure is produced structurally but experienced personally, and is always hard to take. All academics, by virtue of being academics, are haunted by it.
Researching the Uncertain: Memory and Disappearance in Mexico
My project was framed by failure: it was impossible to conceptually and literally to understand the central issue of my project. Yet I tried to work within uncertainty.
Fieldwork, Failure, International Relations
This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications by evaluating Ph.D researchers experiences.
Failing Better Together? A Stylised Conversation about Fieldwork
There is much more to critical research than publish or perish, success and failure. Supervision, collegiality, and care are crucial. ‘Failure’ must be worked through.
Interview – Anne-Kathrin Kreft
Anne-Kathrin Kreft talks about the discourse and perceptions around conflict-related sexual violence and reflects on the affects of sensitive fieldwork on researchers.
