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The Vulnerable Performer: Vulnerability as a Methodological Practice for Embodied Knowledge in Extreme Context Ethnography

Ethnographic research in most extreme cases – settings marked by death, trauma, moral breakdown or existential rupture has consistently shown that researchers’ bodies, emotions and sensibilities become entangled with the worlds they study.

This paper reframes vulnerability as an openness to being affected by, and affecting, the world and others.
Authors and affiliations:

● M. Dolores del Rio, Universidad Austral, Argentina

Access the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joms.70153

Author

  • M. Dolores del Rio

    M. Dolores del Rio (ddelrio@austral.edu.ar, corresponding author) is a postdoctoral researcher at Gustavson Business School, University of Victoria, Canada. Her research focuses on humanizing and dehumanizing processes in organizations, exploring symbolic, cultural, and emotional aspects that influence actors and organizational practices.