1 Entanglements of fieldwork: an introduction-Nerina Weiss;

2 Unspeakable: silences and silencing around fieldwork amid violence-Samira Marty;

3 Drawing on your inner anthropologist: some tools for violent and difficult ethnographic fields-Ivana Maček

4 A cautionary and hopeful tale about experiencing, thinking with, writing through, reflecting on, and teaching the emotional in ethnographic fieldwork-Jastinder Kaur;

5 The fieldwork of never alone: reframing access as relationships of care-Cari Tusing;

6 ‘You are one of us’, but I wasn’t: managing expectations and emotions when studying powerful security actors-Erella Grassiani;

7 Conversations about violence during fieldwork in Colombia-Colleen Alena O’Brien;

8 Staying sane and safe in Israel/Palestine: a foreign researcher’s reflections on fieldwork across boundaries-Andreas Hackl;

9 Involved and detached: emotional management in fieldwork-Anna Hedlund and Steven Sampson;

10 On Catalina’s silence and the things about her I still do not know how to say-Simone Toji;

11 Side effects: how fieldwork and ethnography helped me reclaim my life-Molly Hurley Depret;

12 Violent experiences, violent practices: caring and silence in anthropology-Lena Gross;

13 Hospitality and violence: writing for irresolution-Aya Musmar and Ann-Christin Zuntz;

14 Getting closer to the skin: writing as intensity, writing as feeling-Omer Aijazi;

15 Cherry blossoms and grilled lamb-Eva van Roekel Cordiviola;

16 Making common cause: Ethics as politics, anthropology as praxis: an afterword-Linda Green

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories.