That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Trauma Exposure in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide

• In Event: Fieldwork and Qualitative Methods

Brief Overview

This paper explores the deleterious effects of researching traumatic subject matter as the material interacted with my positionality as it shifted over time, using fieldwork experiences in Russia and Poland as examples.

Author

• Todd Halsey Nelson, Cleveland State University