@feralferment No argument from me! "Smash capitalism and the machinery of colonialism" is sort of the invisible watermark on the paper of this kind of work. (One of the lead authors has a background in documenting atrocities and I can't speak for him, but I don't know anyone in that field who doesn't live with permanent simmering rage.)
I do think that in the meantime, foregrounding the voices of humans working in these contexts is more useful than most other modes of research.