Making Space for Failure in Geographic Research
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...I attempt to avoid the ‘temptation to sanitise the realities of fieldwork […as this adds] one more filter between what happened ‘on the ground’ and what finds its way onto the page’ (Harrowell et al. 2017:1-2, see also Katz, 1994, Punch 2012)....
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...As Harrowell et al. (2017) argue, writing about moments of mess, doubt, embarrassment and failure as honestly as possible is one way to challenge ‘the logic of intense competition and individualism engrained in the contemporary neoliberal university [which] strongly discourages this kind of…...
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...…writing about moments of mess, doubt, embarrassment and failure as honestly as possible is one way to challenge ‘the logic of intense competition and individualism engrained in the contemporary neoliberal university [which] strongly discourages this kind of candour’ (Harrowell et al., 2017:7)....
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...Like Harrowell et al. (2017), however, in this chapter I go beyond simply highlighting the mess or ‘everydayness’ of fieldwork (Horton, 2008:363)....
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...By providing a candid account of our failures in the process of producing the podcast, we respond to calls within geography to analyze and share accounts of failure as a constitutive and critical aspect of field work and political activism (Harrowell, Davies, and Disney 2017)....
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...Ethnographers have noted that “a fear of ever making mistakes” can limit the work of researchers (Hammersely and Atkinson 2007, 92)....
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...In this article we seek to pull back from this temptation, arguing that camouflaging failure is unhelpful, particularly when we as researchers strive to meet calls for greater reflexivity and honesty in research (Rose 1997; Burawoy 2013)....
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...The importance of the researcher’s own emotions during qualitative research is well recognized (McCann and Pearlman 1990; Kleinman 1993; Young and Lee 1996; Scott et al. 2012; Calgaro 2015)....
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...Finally, we encourage geographers to “write vulnerably” (Behar 2014, 16) in their reflexive academic work, to normalize the productive place of failure within our neoliberal institutions....
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