ABSTRACT
In this chapter I suggest the power of letting things settle themselves, before leaping into the work of right-brained (and ego-driven) analyses. This can create more space for unconscious processes to lead the way. It may allow for unexpected findings – the hallmark surprises of good ethnography – to bubble forth. It may also humble us, forcing us to temper any claims to universal truths – or easy critiques of entrenched social problems – that we might make. I offer some analytical approaches that allow for this pausing, slowing, settling and feeling-sensing analytical process.
