Full Description
This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors' varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disappearance. Stories emerge from women who didn't survive domestic abuse to those displaced by 'natural' disasters, or affected by homelessness. Through deeply personal and ethical reflections, each chapter considers how these losses shape both research and researcher.
Offering new insights into harm, reflexivity and the emotional toll of fieldwork, this is an essential contribution to critical criminology and social research methodology.
Contents
Introduction
1. Life, Loss and Legacy - Tammy Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly and Stuart Taylor
Part 1: Loss in the Context of Death
2. Fatigue and Fatality: Remembering Roy - Stuart Taylor
3. Paul: A Life Told Backwards - Craig Kelly
4. "The World Is Out to Get Me, Bruv": Gangs, Street Life, and the Story of How the World 'Got' Ben - Daniel Briggs
Part 2: Loss in the Context of Society, Culture and Consumption
5. Losing Yourself, Becoming Another: Loss as a Transient Experience - Ben Colliver
6. Leonard Hockey and the Violent Crusade Against Begging - Vickie Cooper
7. Gambling Addiction, Trauma, and Loss - Thomas Raymen
8. Lost Women and Children: Hearing the Stories of Victims of Domestic Abuse, Including the Ones Who Did Not 'Survive' - Mandy Burton
9. Missing and Lost: Missing Children, Social Harm and Structural Violence - Paul Andell
Part 3: Loss in the Context of the Environment
10. Critical Perspectives on the Loss of Nature - Angus Nurse and Elliot Doornbos
11. Climate Change, Environmental Loss and Lost Futures: On the Blurring of Nostalgia, Solastalgia and Anticipatory Solastalgia - Tammy C. Ayres and Avi Brisman
Part 4: Loss in Context of Methods
12. Lost and Found: Immersion, Drift and Crossing the Line in Covert Ethnographic Work - Daniel Briggs
13. Some Reflections on the Ethics of Covert Ethnography Among Hard-to-Reach Populations - Simon Winlow
14. Not a Matter of Life and Death: Getting Lost in Criminological Research - James Treadwell
15. The Lost and the Forgotten: The Lasting Legacies of Research - Tammy C. Ayres
Conclusion
16. Making Sense of Loss - Tammy C. Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly and Stuart Taylor
