Something Happened: Storytelling in a Violent Field

In 2014, something happened. Our colleague, AIDS activist and advocate of restorative justice, Harry Nyathela, was murdered. In the struggle to make sense of his senseless-seeming death, we reflect on the method of telling and listening to stories of violence in a ‘field’ that cannot be separated from everyday living (or dying). For researchers, there is little guidance on how to engage when something violent or traumatic happens. Suffering can …