ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore being an academic woman researching others like her. I draw on ideas from Michel Serres as well as fieldnotes, photographs and memories to examine the dynamics of my fieldwork in which – despite my longings to be sensorially attentive – I struggled to keep my head above the flat horizon of the familiar. And, more, I came to feel as if I was drowning in the deluge of data that I kept on collecting. Through this exploration, I have come to understand more deeply how the stories of other academic women and my own are always/already entangled.
