This is what Deborah Bird Rose (2004, 24) has called “recuperative work,” work that begins from the conviction that: There is no former time/space of wholeness to which we might return or which we might resurrect for ourselves.… Nor is there a posited future wholeness which may yet save us. Rather, the work of recuperation seeks glimpses of illumination, and aims toward engagement and disclosure. The method works as an alternative both to methods of closure or suspicion and to methods of proposed salvation. In this context,
