Fwd: [CLHLWR] Social Movement Studies Special Issue: The Ethics of Research on Social Movements

[Chris]

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>Dear colleagues,
>I’m pleased to say that the issue below contains 
>a piece on an oral history project by the CLHLWR 
>team. Abstract at the bottom of this email.
>Margaretta
>
>Subject: SMS Special Issue: The Ethics of Research on Social Movements
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I’m writing to publicise the latest issue of 
>Social Movement Studies, which is now available. 
>I think you may be interested because it is a 
>special issue dedicated to ethical challenges 
>that arise when carrying out research in 
>socially or politically sensitive fields. The 
>purpose of the issue is to go beyond the 
>concerns of ethics committees and review boards 
>and consider the realities of practice, 
>particularly when studying (or working with) 
>social movements. We hope the ideas raised and 
>experiences shared will have relevance in a 
>range of areas of scholarship and should be 
>particularly useful to anyone starting new 
>projects and research relationships.
>
>Details are in the attached flyer, and the issue 
>is available from the following link (the 
>editors’ introduction is currently available without subscription):
><http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current>http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current
>
>We’d be grateful if you were to pass this email 
>on to research students and colleagues in relevant areas.
>
>Finally, apologies to anyone who would rather 
>not have received this email – its a one-off so 
>I promise not to hassle you again!
>
>Kind regards,
>Kevin Gillan
>Coordinating Editor, Social Movement Studies
>University of Manchester
>Oxford Road
>Manchester, UK
>M13 9PL
><mailto:kevin.gillan at manchester.ac.uk>kevin.gillan at manchester.ac.uk
>http://www.antiwarresearch.info
><http://www.kevingillan.info/>http://www.kevingillan.info
>
>
>Sisterhood and After: Individualism, Ethics and 
>an Oral History of the Women's Liberation Movement
><http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Jolly%2C+Margaretta%29>Margaretta 
>Jolly, 
><http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Russell%2C+Polly%29>Polly 
>Russell & 
><http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Cohen%2C+Rachel%29>Rachel 
>Cohen
>Abstract
>In this article, we address the question of 
>ethics in the study of social movements from the 
>perspective of ‘Sisterhood and After: The 
>Women's Liberation Oral History Project’, which 
>will record life history interviews of 50 key 
>activists in the UK for the British Library 
>Sound Archive. Our research is inspired by the 
>democratic ideals of oral historical methods and 
>of feminism itself, yet we have discovered 
>tensions concerning the status of individual 
>experience and the practicalities of selection 
>and method. Turning to other feminist scholars 
>of women's movements we identify four broad 
>justifications for focusing on the individual: a 
>political understanding of the personal; 
>situated knowledge; an investment in interview 
>relationships and a psycho-social framework of 
>analysis. Testing these justifications against 
>some of the oral histories we have gathered, we 
>conclude that they go a long way to answering 
>the paradox of studying a movement through a few 
>individuals' stories. But we are frank about the 
>ethical and intellectual limits that a life 
>history method imposes on capturing social 
>movements. Examples from interviews with Mia 
>Morris, Beatrix Campbell, Lesley Abdela, Ellen 
>Malos and Juliet Mitchell will illuminate the history at stake.
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