Contemporary Vulnerabilities

Claire Carter is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies at the University of Regina. Chelsea Temple Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University. Caitlin Janzen is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University and works in research administration at the University of Calgary.

“This book is both inspirational and aspirational, demonstrating how researchers can find hopeful, generative entry points into ethical social justice research. In discussions too often dominated by detached, positivist notions of research, Contemporary Vulnerabilities disrupts categorical notions of vulnerability and instead centres vulnerability as an inherent part of research relationships and processes.” Christina Clark-Kazak, University of Ottawa

• Preface | Chelsea Temple Jones, Claire Carter, and Caitlin JanzenIntroduction | Claire Carter, Caitlin Janzen, and Chelsea Temple JonesI. Vulnerable Moments1. NRI/Outsider/Returnee: The Location of Trust in Ethnographic Practice | Shraddha Chatterjee2. To Whom Are We Accountable? The Vulnerability of Deep Listening in Feminist Ethnographic Research | Rebecca Lennox3. Discard or Save the Leftovers? What To Do with Truths That Cannot Be Told | Brenda Rossow-Kimball and Kristyn WhiteII. Reflections on Challenges and Hard Decisions in Research Processes4. Un(rendered) stories: Ethical Considerations of Translation Work in Research | Anh Ngo5. "Crossroad" Moments and the Choice to Respond: Diverging from Textbook Ethics | Yuriko Cowper-Smith and Preeti Nayak6. The Messiness of Applying Feminist Research Principles: Reflections on Researching Rape Culture on Campus | Rebecca Godderis, Debra Langan, and Marcia OliverIII. Reflections on Contemporary Approaches to Key Methods and Concepts7. Disrupting Codified Academic Norms through Decolonization | Emily Grafton, Moses Gordon, Cheyanne Desnomie, Cassandra J. Opikokew Wajuntah, and Bettina Schneider8. A familiar stranger: Hindsight and Foresight Reflexivity, Multiple Interviews, and a Young Academic Interviewing a Young Mother | Amber-Lee Varadi9. Queering the Activist/Academic: An Autoethnography of Queering Research with/in Community Spaces | Amelia Thorpe10. Even With the Best of Intentions: An Accounting of Failures in a Participatory Research Project | Lori Ross, Merrick Pilling, Kendra-Ann Pitt, Jijian VoronkaIV. Reflections on Creative Research Collaborations and Relationships11. Building Collaboration through (Performative) Conversation: An Indigenist and a Feminist Reflect on Writing and Learning Together | Melissa Schnarr and Eva Cupchik12. Working Collectively Across our Minoritized Differences: Vulnerabilities and Possibilities of ReVisioning Fitness | K. Alysse Bailey, Meredith Bessey, Carla Rice, Evadne Kelly, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Bongi Dube, Paul Tshuma, Skylar Sookpaiboon, Kayla Besse, Salima Punjani, and seeley quest13. “Sorry, My Child Is Kicking Me under the Desk”: Intersectional Challenges to Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Irene Shankar and Corinne L. Mason14. "It Was the Worst Place I Ever Lived"... ‘It Was the Best Place I Ever Worked": Exploring the Productive Potential of Narrative Discrepancies and Bias in Qualitative Research | Madeline BurghardtV. Reflections on the Methodologically Unresolved15. Decolonial Co-Resistance as Indigenous Methodology: Deepening Resistance and Decolonizing the “Co-” | Jess Notwell16. The Weight of It All: Methodological Implications to Community-Engaged Research on Violent Memory | Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter, and Siobhán Saravanamuttu 17. Vulnerabilities, Affects, and Solidarities: A Rape Survivor’s Tale | Athanasia Francis Conclusion: Finding (a) Dwelling in Vulnerabilities | Caitlin Janzen, Chelsea Temple Jones, and Claire CarterContributors