Sticky Emotions in Feminist Research
Episode Description
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Molly Ackhurst about sticky emotions in feminist research. Molly tells how she used collaging as an arts-based method in her research on reimagining justice after sexual violence. The speakers talk about the emotional complexity of doing sexual violence research and the importance of reckoning with the state of stuckness.
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Readings recommended by Molly Ackhurst
Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press.
Ackhurst, M. (2024). Collaging carceral entrapments and reorientating to the imagination.Feminist Review, 138(1), pp. 84-98.
About the Speaker
Dr Molly Ackhurst
Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich
Dr Molly Ackhurst is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Greenwich. With over a decade of experience in sexual violence support, Molly's work attends to the affective elements of feminist sexual violence politics.