The daughter of a friend, 13 years old, was talking to me about history at the weekend. She has been studying the inter-war years and the rise of German fascism. She told me that she had made herself unpopular in an discussion with her friends afterwards because (she said something like) she had not found …
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othering ourselves
In research there is always an issue of the researcher having power over the researched. This is typical of anthropological work where the ethnographer comes to their field, spends time, forms relationships and then buggers off stage left, perhaps to return with a chapter or a copy of a book if they are that successful. …