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Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform interview dynamics. Drawing on the author’s own experiences interviewing women a...
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| description | Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform interview dynamics. Drawing on the author’s own experiences interviewing women about their changing everyday health experiences, this chapter explores the influence of intergenerational dynamics in oral history. It first considers how interviewees defined their generational positioning in different ways during the interview encounter. Second, it examines how and why some interviewees applied their own assumptions about their generation and its behaviours to the author. It then reflects on the generational assumptions that the author brought to interviews, focusing on the sense of familiarity she often felt when interviewing women of the same generation as her mother. Unpacking this familiarity also helps the author to comprehend why interviewing women of her mother’s age triggered deep emotions both during and after interviews, leading to moments of self-discovery relating to her own experiences. The chapter considers how these momentary revelations influenced the interpersonal dynamics of the interview. Finally, it briefly summarise how other oral historians have responded to these intergenerational dynamics, both during and after the interview. Intergenerational conversations are an intrinsic facet of oral history, and multiple forms of intergenerationality can be generated during the oral history encounter. Understanding how these varied intergenerational dynamics are constructed and resultantly make us feel further expands our understanding of the influence of researcher subjectivity during the oral history process. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1625162025-07-05T05:06:55Z Chapter ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’ Mahoney, Kate everyday health health humanities intersectionality medical humanities social history of medicine wellbeing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform interview dynamics. Drawing on the author’s own experiences interviewing women about their changing everyday health experiences, this chapter explores the influence of intergenerational dynamics in oral history. It first considers how interviewees defined their generational positioning in different ways during the interview encounter. Second, it examines how and why some interviewees applied their own assumptions about their generation and its behaviours to the author. It then reflects on the generational assumptions that the author brought to interviews, focusing on the sense of familiarity she often felt when interviewing women of the same generation as her mother. Unpacking this familiarity also helps the author to comprehend why interviewing women of her mother’s age triggered deep emotions both during and after interviews, leading to moments of self-discovery relating to her own experiences. The chapter considers how these momentary revelations influenced the interpersonal dynamics of the interview. Finally, it briefly summarise how other oral historians have responded to these intergenerational dynamics, both during and after the interview. Intergenerational conversations are an intrinsic facet of oral history, and multiple forms of intergenerationality can be generated during the oral history encounter. Understanding how these varied intergenerational dynamics are constructed and resultantly make us feel further expands our understanding of the influence of researcher subjectivity during the oral history process. 2025-07-04T05:04:31Z 2025-07-04T05:04:31Z 2025-07-03T15:03:01Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250703T165813_9781526170675_9 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103942 9781526170675 9781526170651 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162516 eng Social Histories of Medicine open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103942/1/9781526170675-ch15.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103942/1/9781526170675-ch15.pdf Manchester University Press Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526170675 10.7765/9781526170675 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 ‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 343879dd-7955-422b-881a-bf482aa661e2 9781526170675 9781526170651 Wellcome Manchester University Press 19 Manchester [...] [...] open access |
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