Breaking isolation: Reflections on oral history and distance interviews

• Autor(a) principal: Santhiago, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Barbosa de Magalhães, Valéria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/102266
• topic: História oral; Pesquisa digital; Pesquisa qualitativa; História oral; Metodologia de pesquisa; Oral History. Digital research. Qualitative research.

The article discusses the possibility of conducting online interviews according to oral history tenets. It tries to forward the common technical discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual interviews, aiming to unveil the reasons for the usual rejection of this tool in most researches, and proposing a more open, though still critical, attitude towards this resource. For that, it performs four combined approaches: considerations about the place occupied by the body in oral history theory and in other related research resources, recovering the centrality of the concept of performance in the field’s literature; critical bibliographic review, pointing out its limitations and conclusions; comments about the authors’ past experiences, extracting procedural suggestions from previous empirical research in online environments; and mapping of the technical-methodological discussion and instructional initiatives emerged from social isolation that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.