Reflexive subjects: Exploring the narrative habitus of self-aware interviewees

Mülli, Linda Martina (2018): Reflexive subjects: Exploring the narrative habitus of self-aware interviewees. In: Fabula, Bd. 59, Nr. 1-2: S. 92-111

Abstract

The notion of 'self-aware interviewees' contains two features that emerged when studying early career professionals in the United Nations headquarters in Geneva and Vienna. First, it entails considerations on the researcher's positionality vis-a-vis the 'reflexive subjects' encountered in the field. It also considers the benefit of 'para-ethnographic sensibilities' and the related re-negotiation of the relationship informant-ethnographer. Second, it addresses the narrative habitus encountered among UN neophytes. This paper ultimately states that analyzing the self-aware interviewees' (auto-)narrations implies reflections on power relations in a particular research setting.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
• ISSN: 0014-6242
• Sprache: Englisch