This article argues that in order to understand how bodily impressions shape ways of knowing and being, researchers need to enhance claims of positionality through a language of intercorporeality. The notion of positionality is used to indicate the inherent situatedness and partiality of knowledge, but positionality statements also risk affirming a hierarchical narrative structure, leaving out how knowledge is indelibly and dynamically impressed by bodily others, thereby reinscribing researcher authority. Strengthening attempts to resist mastery in doing research, this article theorizes the intercorporeality of research practice on the basis of the bodily experiences of being there, being moved, and being vulnerable. These insights into the intercorporeality of research practice emerge from fieldwork across the West Bank, the Naqab desert, and alongside the Gaza fence. This article argues that intercorporeal vulnerability is at the core of cultivating knowledge, which emerges not only through willful action, but also through nonintentional rapport with objects and (non)human others. Understanding this vulnerability restores a sense of openness and uncertainty by appreciating research practice as always “in excess” of established categories and always just beyond the researcher's positional mastery.

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Unmastering Research：国际研究中的定位性和体内脆弱性

本文认为，为了理解身体印象如何塑造认知和存在方式，研究人员需要通过一种身体间的语言来加强对位置性的主张。位置性的概念被用来表示知识的固有定位性和偏颇性，但位置性陈述也有可能肯定一种层次结构的叙述结构，忽略了知识如何被身体上的他人不可磨灭地和动态地打动，从而重新赋予研究人员的权威。加强在研究中抗拒掌握的尝试，本文基于身临其境、被感动和脆弱的身体体验，对研究实践的交互性进行了理论化。这些对研究实践的交互性的见解来自于横跨西岸、纳卡布沙漠、在加沙围栏旁边。本文认为，身体间的脆弱性是培养知识的核心，知识不仅通过有意的行为出现，而且还通过与物体和（非）人类他人的非故意融洽关系而出现。通过将研究实践视为始终“超出”既定类别并且始终超出研究人员的位置掌握，了解这种脆弱性可以恢复开放感和不确定性。