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    Repositioning the oral history interview : reciprocal peer interviewing within a transgenerational frame

    Donaghey, Sara

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    2014-12-22
    Link to ePress publication:
    http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/communication-issues-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-2/
    Citation:
    Donaghey, S. (2014). Repositioning the oral history interview: Reciprocal peer interviewing within a transgenerational frame. In G. Dodson, & E. Papoutsaki (Eds.), Communication issues in Aotearoa New Zealand: A collection of research essays (95 -105). Unitec ePress. ISBN 9781927214152. [NOTE: to access individual papers, click on Author - title entries in the table of contents]. Retrieved from http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2764
    Abstract
    This essay signals a departure from conventional models for the oral history interview to allow the participant voices to occupy a position of greater prominence in a collaborative process of co-creation. Reciprocal peer interviewing is an adaptation of focus group interviews; a technique that positions the narrators at the forefront of the interview process whilst the researcher takes on a secondary role as facilitator and observer. My research applies the reciprocal peer interview technique to explorations of lesbian identity and life experiences through oral testimony within a transgenerational frame. The interview lies at the heart of oral history; an intensely personal activity that provides recorded information in oral form (Fyfe and Manson, 2006). Indeed, analogies to dramatic representations are common in the literature, describing the interview as a performance during which two people interact across multiple channels of reception and transmission. Traditional interview modes place the researcher/interviewer at the forefront, engaging in an interrogatory dialogue with the narrator/interviewee. Despite an uneasy relationship with historians who at times, have viewed oral history as populist, partial and selective, one may argue that the recording of a life story is no different to an interview used as a mainstream data collection instrument in qualitative research commonly applied in the social sciences. Ultimately, one must adhere to the raison d’etre for historical study as stated by Thompson (1978, p 21) that “all history depends ultimately upon its social purpose.”
    Keywords:
    oral history, interviewing, co-creation, life stories, queer, lesbian, gay
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods, 210311 New Zealand History, 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
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    Unitec ePress

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