This QUALIFIE Working Group session features a presentation by Associate Professor Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews).
How do we think and write about sensitive topics such as victimhood, hierarchies, and violence? How do feminist principles of the ethics of care and the concepts of love and loss inform not only our research, but our writing thereof? How can we rethink and reimagine the political, discursive, and spatial dimensions of gender, violence, the state, the transitional justice industry, and the politics of victimhood and agency? In this event with Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), we talk about the politics of victimhood, ethics, and methods of researching political violence, the role of storytelling and narratives in research and how to write well and ethically. Roxani will share her own approach to research and writing with a feminist sensibility and discuss the complexities of writing ethically.
Speaker:
Dr. Roxani Krystalli is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. A central question animating Roxani's work within and beyond the academy is what sustains life in the face of loss. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator of a research project on the role of love and care in remaking worlds after loss, including violence, illness, grief, and ecological losses. For over a decade, Roxani has worked at the intersection of gender and peacebuilding as an academic researcher and humanitarian practitioner. Her work has particularly focused on developing ethical and rigorous methodologies for documenting gendered harms. Roxani holds a PhD and MA from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, as well as a BA from Harvard University. Roxani's first book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question (Oxford University Press, 2024), based on in-depth engagement in Colombia over the course of a decade, won the American Political Science Association's Lee Ann Fujii prize for interpretive research on political violence. Roxani's research on the politics and hierarchies of victimhood in Colombia received the Peter Ackerman Award at the Fletcher School in 2020. In the same year, her article on the ethics and methods of narrating victimhood was the runner-up for the Cynthia Enloe prize at the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
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