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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">forwarding for wider info - pass on as you
wish - cheers - Chris <no need to reply><br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4><b>Dear
colleagues,<br>
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.
<br>
Margaretta<br>
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Subject:</b> SMS Special Issue: The Ethics of Research on Social
Movements<br>
<br>
Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
I’m writing to publicise the latest issue of <i>Social Movement
Studies</i>, 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. <br>
<br>
Details are in the attached flyer, and the issue is available from the
following link (the editors’ introduction is currently available without
subscription): <br>
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current">
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current</a><br>
<br>
We’d be grateful if you were to pass this email on to research students
and colleagues in relevant areas.<br>
<br>
Finally, apologies to anyone who would rather not have received this
email – its a one-off so I promise not to hassle you again! <br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Kevin Gillan<br>
Coordinating Editor, Social Movement Studies<br>
University of Manchester <br>
Oxford Road<br>
Manchester, UK<br>
M13 9PL<br>
<a href="mailto:kevin.gillan@manchester.ac.uk">
kevin.gillan@manchester.ac.uk</a><br>
<a href="http://www.antiwarresearch.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.antiwarresearch.info</a><br>
<a href="http://www.kevingillan.info/">http://www.kevingillan.info</a><br>
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<br>
Sisterhood and After: Individualism, Ethics and an Oral History of the
Women's Liberation Movement<br>
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Jolly%2C+Margaretta%29">
Margaretta Jolly</a>,
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Russell%2C+Polly%29">
Polly Russel</a>l &
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Cohen%2C+Rachel%29">
Rachel Cohen</a> <br>
Abstract<br>
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.</font></blockquote></body>
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