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Re/telling. Questions of perspective and agency in recontextualizing archived documentations I 
Convenors:
Alf Arvidsson (Umeå University)
Line Esborg (University of Oslo)
Marie Steinrud (Stockholm University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
NARRATIVE
:
Room H-206
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Re-telling the thoughts and sayings of others in historical scholarship includes negotiations of authorship and agendas. Tensions will always appear and have to be addressed. How are historical and recent power structures to be negotiated by the contemporary researcher?

Long Abstract:

The practice of re-telling (publishing, analyzing, performing, presenting) the thoughts, sayings and writings of others in historical scholarship includes negotiations of authorship and agendas. The thoughts collected in the archives are not only lacking context but also, for the most part, represent a selection made in the past, often without any trace remaining of the selection criteria applied. The agency of letting yourself be interviewed and observed may stem from personal agendas of individual or collective identity or cultural policy. Equally, the decision of what to preserve lies in the past. Today, the importance of the ethical implications of interpreting the historical material is increasingly being emphasized and even challenged. The researcher's intentions on the other hand may or may not be compatible with those of the collaborator, but tensions will always arise and have to be addressed.

Using interviews, answers to questionnaires, and autobiographic texts in ethnological/folkloristic research has been a process of moving between the positions of "giving voice to other people" and "making space for other voices". But whose voice is heard, which voices are given priority? How are historical and recent power structures to be negotiated by contemporary researchers?

For this panel, we welcome proposals including topics such as: Research as cultural translation; Negotiating authorship in publishing; Searching for subjects behind fragments; The careers of "star informants"; Making room for voices of dissent in representations of the collective; The cultural politics of answering questionnaires; The scholarly practice of validating tradition-bearers; Making sense of historical fieldwork practices.

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Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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