ABSTRACT
This resulting portrait of our shared work is fi rst offered to other Performers of Dangerous Knowledge who may see themselves in it, with the hope that some part of the picture may ring true to them, but my imagined audience for this work is also made up of people from the many different personal and professional locations where such performances are witnessed. It includes those professionals who work to support the vulnerable: the educators, social workers, health practitioners, and community activists engaged in front line relationships where individual stories may form an
CHAPTER 9
important part of communication. However, I also believe that “the act of witnessing begins in a personal raid on the inarticulate and creates a chain of witnesses each of whom receives this newly wrought history, charged with the affect which compels its retelling” (Davidson, 2003, p. 166). Therefore, I am hoping that it could also include those people at a management or policy level who are involved in the funding, support, and supervision of service delivery programs, as well as those working toward the expansion of the theoretical understanding of bordered spaces and Subaltern speech.
