The Cost of Bearing Witness : Secondary Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research (Paperback)

Introduction: Re-Thinking Exposure to Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research? 1. Why Fit in When You Were Born to Stand Out? The Role of Peer Support in Preventing and Mitigating Research-Related Stress among Doctoral Researchers? 2. Dialogical Research Design: Practising Ethical, Useful and Safe(r) Research? 3. Gendered Embodiment of the Ethnographer during Fieldwork in a Conflict Region of India? 4. Going to Work ‘High’: Negotiating Boundaries while Doing Ethnography of Drugs? 5. Bearing Witness to Suffering: A Reflection on the Personal Impact of Conducting Research with Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-era Gross Human Rights Violations in South Africa? 6. ‘I Was Close to Them’: Re-experiencing War through Trauma-based Interviews? 7. The Cost of Bearing Witness to the Environmental Crisis: Vicarious Traumatization and Dealing with Secondary Traumatic Stress among Environmental Researchers

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