Zum politischen Anspruch der Oral History. Über das epistemische Schweigen und die ontologische Taubheit der Mehrheitsgesellschaft

Listening is the art of those who practice oral history. But do we hear what we are told? And can we adequately (re)present the voices of those we have interviewed? In this article, we critically examine this implicit political claim of oral history with the help of empirical case studies. Using interview collections on Dutch (post)colonial history and on the history of Hungarian Roma, we show how the social phenomenon under investigation already became visible in the research situation itself, namely that life narratives of marginalized people were always dependent on the knowledge production... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Immler, Nicole
Kovacs, Eva
Dokumenttyp: journal article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: DEU
Schlagwörter: Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Biografieforschung / Dutch colonial history / Framing / Hungary / Oral History / Roma genocide / Roma-Genozid / Ungarn / biographical research / epistemic injustice / niederländische Kolonialgeschichte / othering / subaltern studies / Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften / Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis / Statistical Methods / Computer Methods / Netherlands / interview / colonialism / method / gipsy / framing approach / Sinti und Roma / Framing-Ansatz / Methode / Kolonialismus / Niederlande
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Listening is the art of those who practice oral history. But do we hear what we are told? And can we adequately (re)present the voices of those we have interviewed? In this article, we critically examine this implicit political claim of oral history with the help of empirical case studies. Using interview collections on Dutch (post)colonial history and on the history of Hungarian Roma, we show how the social phenomenon under investigation already became visible in the research situation itself, namely that life narratives of marginalized people were always dependent on the knowledge production by the majority. We explore the dynamics between interviewers and interviewees in order to clarify which framing allows us to (not) hear voices. We thus analyze the epistemic silence and the ontological "deafness" of a society. As a summary, alternative methodological approaches are pointed out and a plea is made that participatory research must also be epistemic research. Our central concern is not to mark/label the "other" but the "own" and its ontological exclusion mechanisms more clearly and to put it on the agenda as an important future field of research. ; Zuhören ist die Kunst derer, die Oral History ausüben. Doch hören wir, was uns erzählt wird? Und können wir die Stimmen jener, die wir interviewt haben, adäquat (re)präsentieren? Dieser implizite politische Anspruch der Oral History wird in diesem Artikel mithilfe empirischer Fallstudien kritisch befragt. Anhand von Interviewsammlungen zur niederländischen (post)kolonialen Geschichte und zur Geschichte der ungarischen Roma wird gezeigt, wie das zu untersuchende gesellschaftliche Phänomen bereits in der Forschungssituation selbst sichtbar wurde, dass nämlich Lebenserzählungen marginalisierter Randgruppen stets auch von der Wissensproduktion der Mehrheitsgesellschaft abhängig waren. Wir untersuchen die Dynamik zwischen den Interviewer*innen und den Interviewten, um zu verdeutlichen, welches Framing es uns erlaubt, Stimmen (nicht) zu hören, und wir analysieren damit ...