Chapter Cultivating vulnerability
This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, the ‘ownership’ of stories, and the potential consequences of the reuse of inter...
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| description | This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, the ‘ownership’ of stories, and the potential consequences of the reuse of interviews in unanticipated contexts. It explores an experiment in voluntarily cultivating vulnerability as an oral historian, in the pursuit of a different kind of emotional engagement that might enable continuous and productive unsettling of ethical commitment to participants. This experiment was for the author to be interviewed herself, using the same schedule as the oral history project used to interview its participants, with the aim of archiving the interview. In doing so, she tried to make herself vulnerable and to constantly trouble her own sense of ethical practice. The chapter concludes that to fulfil their responsibilities to participants as fully as possible, oral historians generate reflective and dynamic ethical practices that respond to all the different ‘life stages’ of the interview, from first contact to archived recording. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1625362025-07-05T05:11:37Z Chapter Cultivating vulnerability Loughran, Tracey 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 This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, the ‘ownership’ of stories, and the potential consequences of the reuse of interviews in unanticipated contexts. It explores an experiment in voluntarily cultivating vulnerability as an oral historian, in the pursuit of a different kind of emotional engagement that might enable continuous and productive unsettling of ethical commitment to participants. This experiment was for the author to be interviewed herself, using the same schedule as the oral history project used to interview its participants, with the aim of archiving the interview. In doing so, she tried to make herself vulnerable and to constantly trouble her own sense of ethical practice. The chapter concludes that to fulfil their responsibilities to participants as fully as possible, oral historians generate reflective and dynamic ethical practices that respond to all the different ‘life stages’ of the interview, from first contact to archived recording. 2025-07-04T05:09:10Z 2025-07-04T05:09:10Z 2025-07-03T15:03:03Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250703T165813_9781526170675_10 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103943 9781526170675 9781526170651 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162536 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/20.500.12657/103943/1/9781526170675-ch16.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103943/1/9781526170675-ch16.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 22 Manchester [...] [...] open access |
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