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“Is Austria a Catholic Country?”: Trust and Intersubjectivity in Postconflict Northern Ireland
The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2021-08-31 , DOI: 10.1080/00940798.2021.1941141
Dieter Reinisch

ABSTRACT

Media pundits, politicians, and academic observers have frequently described the Northern Irish Troubles as a religious conflict, a description the Irish republican actors of the conflict reject. In 2009 and 2011, I interviewed twenty-five former Irish republican women activists. Other scholars have argued that the emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences of the researcher can have several roles and functions and, thus, shape our research interests and decisions. Similarly, the interviewer’s presence, as much as the narrator’s perceptions, will shape the story the narrators tell. Based on these considerations, I discuss how the Irish republican women I interviewed projected their own Catholic convictions on me, despite stressing that they were not overly religious or even practicing Catholics. These women acknowledged that as I was Austrian, I was a “neutral outsider to the conflict” (as one woman put it), but nevertheless, they projected a supposed shared affinity on me. These projections shaped their answers during the interviews. Furthermore, while these women emphasized that their political motivation for Irish republican activities was not religiously driven, they were raised in a Catholic environment. Thus, these subjective experiences shaped their answers and attitudes towards the interviewer. In essence, this article examines, first, how Catholic convictions were projected on the interviewer by narrators in oral history projects on the Northern Ireland conflict and, second, what roles and functions these religious projections served during the interview process.



中文翻译:

“奥地利是天主教国家吗?”:冲突后北爱尔兰的信任和主体间性

摘要

媒体专家、政治家和学术观察家经常将北爱尔兰问题描述为一场宗教冲突,但爱尔兰共和派人士拒绝接受这种描述。2009 年和 2011 年,我采访了 25 位前爱尔兰共和女性活动家。其他学者认为,研究人员的情绪、感受和主观体验可以具有多种作用和功能,从而影响我们的研究兴趣和决策。同样,采访者的存在,以及叙述者的看法,都会影响叙述者讲述的故事。基于这些考虑,我讨论了我采访的爱尔兰共和女性如何将她们自己的天主教信仰投射到我身上,尽管强调她们并没有过于虔诚,甚至没有信奉天主教。这些女人承认,因为我是奥地利人,我是“冲突中的中立局外人”(正如一位女士所说),但尽管如此,他们还是在我身上投射了一种所谓的共同亲和力。这些预测塑造了他们在采访中的答案。此外,虽然这些女性强调她们对爱尔兰共和活动的政治动机不是宗教驱动的,但她们是在天主教环境中长大的。因此,这些主观经历塑造了他们对面试官的回答和态度。从本质上讲,本文首先考察了北爱尔兰冲突的口述历史项目中的叙述者如何将天主教信仰投射到采访者身上,其次,这些宗教投射在采访过程中扮演了什么样的角色和功能。他们在我身上投射了一种所谓的共同亲和力。这些预测塑造了他们在采访中的答案。此外,虽然这些女性强调她们对爱尔兰共和活动的政治动机不是宗教驱动的,但她们是在天主教环境中长大的。因此,这些主观经历塑造了他们对面试官的回答和态度。从本质上讲,本文首先考察了北爱尔兰冲突的口述历史项目中的叙述者如何将天主教信仰投射到采访者身上,其次,这些宗教投射在采访过程中扮演了什么样的角色和功能。他们在我身上投射了一种所谓的共同亲和力。这些预测塑造了他们在采访中的答案。此外,虽然这些女性强调她们对爱尔兰共和活动的政治动机不是宗教驱动的,但她们是在天主教环境中长大的。因此,这些主观经历塑造了他们对面试官的回答和态度。从本质上讲,本文首先考察了北爱尔兰冲突的口述历史项目中的叙述者如何将天主教信仰投射到采访者身上,其次,这些宗教投射在采访过程中扮演了什么样的角色和功能。虽然这些女性强调她们参与爱尔兰共和活动的政治动机并非出于宗教动机,但她们是在天主教环境中长大的。因此,这些主观经历塑造了他们对面试官的回答和态度。从本质上讲,本文首先考察了北爱尔兰冲突的口述历史项目中的叙述者如何将天主教信仰投射到采访者身上,其次,这些宗教投射在采访过程中扮演了什么样的角色和功能。虽然这些女性强调她们参与爱尔兰共和活动的政治动机并非出于宗教动机,但她们是在天主教环境中长大的。因此,这些主观经历塑造了他们对面试官的回答和态度。从本质上讲,本文首先考察了北爱尔兰冲突的口述历史项目中的叙述者如何将天主教信仰投射到采访者身上,其次,这些宗教投射在采访过程中扮演了什么样的角色和功能。

更新日期:2021-09-09
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