ABSTRACT
Intimacy, expressed through the feelings and sensations of the researcher, is bound up in the work of a feminist geographer. Tapping into this intimacy and including it in academic writing facilitates a grasping of the effects of power in particular places and initiates a discussion about how to access and tease out what constitutes the intimate both ethically and politically throughout the research process.
This collection provides valuable reflections about intimacy in the research process - from encounters in the field, through data analysis, to the various pieces of written work. A global and heterogeneous pool of scholars and researchers introduce personal ways of writing intimacy into feminist geography. As authors expand existing conceptualizations of intimacy and include their own stories, chapters explore the methodological challenges of using intimacy in research as an approach, a topic and a site of interaction.
The book is valuable reading for students and researchers of Geography, as well as anyone interested in the ethics and practicalities of feminist, critical and emotional research methodologies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |30 pages
Introduction
part I|39 pages
Methodological challenges
chapter 2|8 pages
An uncomfortable position
chapter 5|11 pages
Navigating intimate insider status
part II|58 pages
Emergent effects of including one’s own story
chapter 8|12 pages
Open for business?
chapter 9|9 pages
Walking the line between the professional and personal
part III|41 pages
Multiple aspects of researching intimacy
chapter 12|7 pages
To hold and be held
chapter 14|10 pages
Intimacy, animal emotion and empathy
part IV|54 pages
Analytical methods as part of writing
chapter 15|7 pages
Bearing witness to geographies of life and death
chapter 18|11 pages
Death, dying and decision-making in an intensive care unit
part |12 pages
Concluding remarks