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This article conceptualizes the collective method to describe how 12 scholars worked collaboratively to study the effects of displacement following Hurricane Katrina. The collective method is defined as an integrated, reflexive process of research design and implementation in which a diverse group of scholars studying a common phenomenon-yet working on independent projects-engage in repeated theoretical and methodological discussions to improve (1) research transparency and accountability and (2) the rigor and efficacy of each member's unique project. This process generates critical discussions over researchers' and respondents' positionality, the framework of intersectionality, and applied ethics. Informed by feminist theoretical and methodological considerations of reflexivity, insider-outsider positionality, power relations, and social justice, the collective method can enhance scholars' standpoints regarding philosophical, ethical, and strategic issues that emerge in the research process.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction -- 2. The Research Network -- Section I Receiving communities -- Introduction -- 3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": -- 4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: -- 5. Living through Displacement: -- 6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: -- 7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: -- 8. Permanent Temporariness: -- Section II Social networks -- Introduction -- 9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: -- 10. "We need to get together with each other": -- 11. The Women of Renaissance Village: -- 12. Twice Removed: -- 13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora -- Section III Charting A Path Forward -- Introduction -- 14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: -- Author bios -- Index