ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author asks: what is a politics of love in research? Emerging from the present-day political climate, the chapter ponders a methodology of friendship at a time of fierce neoliberal individualism, a methodology of imagination in a restlessly instrumental world, and a methodology of time in a hyper-productive culture. How do researchers make social relations in such harrowing times? A reconsideration of ‘researcher reflexivity’, provoked by empirical research with young people in a school in Athens, Greece amidst the unfolding economic and refugee crises, sets the stage for ‘witnessing’ as a theoretical intervention in the study of the social world.
