12 ‘Please Explain to Me How I’m Vulnerable’ Learning How to Rework Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability by Listening Carefully to Care-Experienced Young People

Dawn Mannay

DOI: 10.4324/9781003349266-16

The Label of Vulnerability

This section begins by defining and examining the term vulnerable in preparation for the following section, which explores how vulnerability has been attributed to and rejected by the children and young people that I have worked with in research studies and related activities. This leads to a contemplation of how vulnerability operates bidirectionally in fieldwork and a consideration of its impacts on researchers, which can be both debilitating and productive. The final section positions vulnerability as a property ...

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