Interruption as a process of affective reckoning: A critical duoethnography on the continuum of violence

An initial project that began as a literature review on news media reporting of sexual violence extended into a critical collaborative duoethnography due to several unfolding interruptions throughout the research process. As early career scholars, we were motivated to pursue this duoethnography because the interruptions we experienced and their implications were embedded within the continuum of violence. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate and reflect on how violence in multiple forms has multilayered impacts, functioning as a tool of disturbance. The interruptions became integral to the journey. We revisit the stages of researching, writing, and revising the literature review. We were interrupted during this process by multiple cases and examples of violence: the story of Lisa Banfield, dehumanization and heightened violence against Palestinians, and state-sanctioned murders of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Each of these interruptions impacted our experiences as scholars and demonstrated how the challenges of reporting practices around sexual violence extend to multiple forms of violence and are entangled in insidious ways.