In Search of Beauty

Though the core concept in my research is violence, I am drawn to see the beauty in the places I learn from and the love and joy people carry within themselves. Life is wonderfully messy and constantly asks us to wrestle with contradictions, and I use this  page to remind myself of that truth and invite you to see the beauty alongside me. I am also reminded that 'the field' is someone's home, my case studies someone's everyday reality, and rather than awaiting discovery, 'the field' is something I actively co-construct in my research, interactions, and ways of thinking, speaking, and representation.

I feature here some of my favorite photos from 'the field'--scattered scenes from Northern Ireland, Burundi, Turkey, and Serbia at the moment--in the hopes that they nurture new imaginations about our world and our possibilities for living well within it.

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“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
― Donna Haraway,
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene