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To conceptualize vulnerability not merely as a field risk, but as an intentional methodological practice for accessing embodied and carnal knowledge in extreme social contexts.

August 16, 2026Journal of Management Studies

The Vulnerable Performer: Vulnerability as a Methodological Practice for Embodied Knowledge in Extreme Context Ethnography

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MRM. Dolores del Rio

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Enactive ethnography demonstrates how researcher vulnerability generates carnal knowledge in hospice care, highlighting ethical and methodological trade-offs in extreme contexts.

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To conceptualize vulnerability not merely as a field risk, but as an intentional methodological practice for accessing embodied and carnal knowledge in extreme social contexts.
Conducted a two-year enactive ethnography within a hospice setting.
Theorized the concept of the 'vulnerable performer' who enacts organizational practices under conditions of open exposure to affect and be affected.
Identified three operational dimensions of vulnerable performance: sensorial openness, visceral reactions, and the intersubjective experience of time and space.
Demonstrated that while vulnerable performance reveals hidden bodily and ethical dynamics of organizing, it incurs critical methodological and ethical costs requiring sustainable boundaries.

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M. Dolores del Rio (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817aa1f2fb91fc834ae90c https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70153

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Enactive ethnography demonstrates how researcher vulnerability generates carnal knowledge in hospice care, highlighting ethical and methodological trade-offs in extreme contexts.

The Vulnerable Performer: Vulnerability as a Methodological Practice for Embodied Knowledge in Extreme Context Ethnography

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The Vulnerable Performer: Vulnerability as a Methodological Practice for Embodied Knowledge in Extreme Context Ethnography

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