ABSTRACT

Drawing from the experience of managing an oral history project as part of a digital archive built following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, this article seeks to unpack questions of ethics in terms of how we actually create our oral history projects, which includes the relations of power that extend beyond the interview and take into consideration the various organizations involved in such projects. More specifically, it uses the concept of “organizational sponsorship” to examine how stakeholders benefit from such research practices and asks oral historians to consider their own institutional, community, and personal contexts and what those relations of power may include and exclude.

摘要

本文借鉴了管理作为 2013 年波士顿马拉松爆炸案之后建立的数字档案一部分的口述历史项目的经验，试图从我们如何实际创建口述历史项目的角度解开道德问题，其中包括权力关系这超出了采访范围，并考虑到参与此类项目的各个组织。更具体地说，它使用“组织赞助”的概念来研究利益相关者如何从此类研究实践中受益，并要求口述历史学家考虑他们自己的制度、社区和个人背景，以及这些权力关系可能包含和排除的内容。