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Drawing on diverse disciplinary backgrounds and field locations, our collaborative reflections explore how researchers navigate the vulnerabilities that come with the demand for transparency in contemporary academic practice. We argue that while a neoliberal research culture invites openness and reflexivity, it often fails to acknowledge the embodied, emotional, and political vulnerabilities that certain acts of disclosure entail. Through an assemblage of personal experiences and critical reflections, we thus ask:\n                    <jats:italic>how do researchers deal with the vulnerabilities resulting from processes of disclosure\/exposure? And in particular, how do they engage questions of disclosure and exposure in researching race and racism?<\/jats:italic>\n                    In this essay, we then build upon our own experiences around disclosure and exposure, to consider how power relations shape what can be said, revealed, or withheld, and by whom, while offering concrete suggestions and strategies for how to navigate the pressures of disclosure at various stages of the research process.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fsoc.2026.1743053","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,6]],"date-time":"2026-07-06T00:42:42Z","timestamp":1783298562000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Thinking through the micro-politics of disclosure\/exposure while researching race and gender: a multi-voice essay on how to manage vulnerability"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Ana\u00efs","family":"M\u00e9nard","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven","place":["Leuven, Belgium"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johanna M.","family":"Lukate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity","place":["G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"]},{"name":"Research Group \u201cMigration, Identity and Blackness in Europe\u201d, Max Planck Institute for Human Development","place":["Berlin, Germany"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Madeline","family":"Bass","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group \u201cMigration, Identity and Blackness in Europe\u201d, Max Planck Institute for Human Development","place":["Berlin, Germany"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karen Amaka","family":"Okigbo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Boston","place":["Boston, MA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Serena","family":"Scarabello","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia","place":["Pavia, Italy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vin\u00edcius","family":"Venancio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University of Goi\u00e1s","place":["Goi\u00e2nia, Brazil"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kezia","family":"Aryeetey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Otto-Hahn-Research Group \u201cGender, Migration and Social Mobility\u201d, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology","place":["Halle, Germany"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samantha","family":"Strohmenger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Humanities, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Eberhard Karls Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen","place":["T\u00fcbingen, Germany"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/13505084211030646","article-title":"Researching violent contexts: a call for political reflexivity","author":"Abdelnour","year":"2021","journal-title":"Organization"},{"key":"ref2","first-page":"62","volume-title":"The Cultural Geography Reader","author":"Abu-Lughod","year":"2008"},{"key":"ref3","first-page":"332","volume-title":"Qualitative Research in Action","author":"Adkins","year":"2002"},{"key":"ref4","volume-title":"Language and Social Relations","author":"Agha","year":"2007"},{"key":"ref5","volume-title":"On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life","author":"Ahmed","year":"2012"},{"key":"ref6","article-title":"Afrozensus 2020: Perspektiven","author":"Aikins","year":"2021","journal-title":"Anti-Schwarze Rassis muserfahrungen und Engagement Schwarzer, afrikanischer und afrodiasporischer Menschen in Deutschland"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"49","DOI":"10.1111\/anti.12891","article-title":"Hiriira Spatiotemporalities: mapping Oromo women\u2019s liberation in post-imperial Berlin","volume":"55","author":"Bass","year":"2022","journal-title":"Antipode"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"576","DOI":"10.1632\/S0030812925101284","article-title":"To speak from a place which is moving; 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