Grief as method: topographies of grief, care, and fieldwork from Northwest Arkansas to New York and the Marshall Islands

• Published in: Gender, place and culture : a journal of feminist geography Vol. 26; no. 10; pp. 1438 - 1458
• Main Author: Mitchell-Eaton, Emily
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.10.2019; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Autoethnography; Distance; Field study; Fieldwork; Grief; grief as method; Islands; Landscape; Mobility; New sites; Politics; politics of care; Proximity; Research methodology; Research subjects; Researchers; Spatial analysis; Topography; Vulnerability

When we grieve during fieldwork, our grief forms new geographies of knowledge production and emotion. In this article, I use autoethnography to theorize my grief during fieldwork following the death of my sister. I examine grief's methodological implications using the concept of 'grief as...