چکیده (انگلیسی):

This article engages in critical reflexivity to investigate the researcher’s own sense of vulnerability when conducting research
on social inequality . Using a disruptive experience in an immersive theatrical storytelling performance as a catalyst to deconstruct
and raise consciousness about the author’s privilege and her own role in research, this article seeks to unpack the politics at
play in qualitative research in social and political psychology . The extent to which our privileged role and our identity as
researchers are nested in history , in systems, and in structures is explored, and the risk that this shields us from being able
to truly understand the reality , or epistemology , of the vulnerable groups we are seeking to investigate, is examined. The notion
of unknowing the researcher’s vulnerability in research is discussed, along with the ways in which systems and structures
have allowed researchers to maintain emotional control and dominance in knowledge production. Moreover, through othering
vulnerable emotions and legitimising a researcher’s position as emotion-free, value-free, neutral, and objective, we may
continue to engender epistemological injustice. Finally , the author emphasizes the importance of reflexivity and re-searching
researchers’ humility as ways to address this challenge.