Negotiating and utilizing the researcher's stance and agenda is always an important, yet tricky, process. This process is even more complicated when researching within one's own community, especially when you and that community are working through a recent trauma. In this paper, I reveal some of my own anxieties in doing so as I am preparing to design my research project in post-Katrina New Orleans, my hometown.
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