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Ressentiment as Suffering : On Transitional Justice and the Impossibility of Forgiveness
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âThe Nude Manâs Cityâ : FlĂĄvio de Carvalhoâs Anthropophagic Architecture as Cultural Criticism
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Ethnography in Motion, or Walking With WG Sebald
In fieldwork, the collection of qualitative empirical data is almost exclusively carried out on foot. When we study a âfieldâ, it also suggests a terrain or an environment that we are meant to investigate. Yet the actual process of investigating something âon footâ, of walking, is seldom reflected on in any detail. The aim of this essay is to consider what this notion of investigating a field âon footâ might mean for socio-legal scholarship. It focuses on the ways in which author WG Sebaldâs walks in the Suffolk landscape, as portrayed in his novel The Rings of Saturn (1995), provide sensory stimuli for his meditations on themes such as the passing of time and identity. Sebaldâs notion of walking is traced Claude LĂ©vi-Straussâ idea of bricolage as a form of âpatchworkâ knowledge formation, but the hybridity of Sebaldâs resulting âfieldnotesâ suggest a closer affiliation with Walter Benjaminâs notion of constellation.Peer reviewe
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