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SUMMARY:Asking your mother: race\, gender and positionality in remote oral
  history interviews - Saffron East (Adrian Research Fellow)
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this paper I reflect on two small sets of oral hi
 story interviews\, conducted remotely during the first pandemic lockdown i
 n 2020\, all with women of colour who are around my mum’s age and in som
 e cases are my friends’ mums or my mum’s friends. I explore how this 
 – and my positionality as a British Gujarati woman in the ivory tower 
 – impacted the dynamics of the interviews. The ‘mum’ aspect intersec
 ted with race and gender\, specifically as the women in question were spea
 king to a younger woman of colour of a similar age to their children\, mea
 ning (I argue) that there was a maternal and educative aspect to their nar
 ratives. Overall\, I explore the ways that positionality impacts the resul
 ts of oral history interviews\, and how power dynamics can become fluid in
  the context of oral history interviewing.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Saffron is a ne
 w Adrian Research Fellow at Darwin. Her work focuses on histories of race 
 and antiracism in Britain\, with particular interests in political Blackne
 ss and gender\, as well as memory and the politics of history. She complet
 ed her PhD on antiracism in Southall at University College London.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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