“Show us what you’ve got”: From experiences of undoing to mobilizing agentic vulnerability in research
通过东西方女性研究者的六个关键片段，探讨研究中的脆弱性体验如何被重新理解、调动，并转化为抵抗、研究行动和解放实践，提出“能动性脆弱性”概念，为研究者作为行动者提供新伦理与实践路径。
Abstract This inquiry both builds on and extends exploration into gendered research through a focus on researcher vulnerability and its associated ethics. We discuss six critical vignettes across Western and Eastern contexts in which female researchers are “undone” and subsequently “redone” during their research endeavors. We draw upon Butler's work on gender and vulnerability, theorized as a subset of precarity. Attention is drawn to attempts to reframe, understand, and mobilize vulnerability differently, as a form of resistance, research activism, and emancipatory enactment. We propose agentic vulnerability as speaking to felt moments of vulnerability experienced in field research. We extend this contribution into a theorization of the researcher as activist, outlining practical applications of this concept. Ultimately, we seek to reposition agentic vulnerability in institutional research as a source of new ethics, research practices, and activism.