Politics of Feminist Epistemology and Oral History : Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na-Young Lee
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-512

In 1998, Dolores Delgado Bernal charted a path from Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands into the heart of educational research in the pages of this journal. Drawing inspiration and critical direction from Chicana feminists and feminists of color more broadly, Delgado Bernal sought to interrupt habits of “epistemological racism” in educational research. Her article “Using a Chicana Epistemology in Educational Research” criticized conventional notions of objectivity and universal foundations of knowledge for erasing the specific intersectionality and location of Chicana experiences. Delgado Bernal defined cultural intuition as the deliberate employment of Chicana identity—its substance and its expression—in the theoretical and interpretive repertoires of Chicana researchers. She then, by example, through an oral history of Chicana students, showed how this feminist framework served the broader aims of educational research by amplifying rather than silencing Chicana voices. The article and the framework it put forth inspired a number of researchers and theorists.


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Zuriñe Rodríguez Lara ◽  
Sergio Villanueva Baselga

This article sets out presenting the methodological toolbox created for the study of very specific reality: the gathering of oral information in the study of armed conflicts. Taking as a valid reference the oral history technique, we explored new methodological processes that allowed us to reach the lives and stories of the people interviewed more deeply, with a closer approach to their lives, but at the same time respecting and ensuring maximum access and confidentiality. To do this, the oral history methodology was reviewed with the main contributions of feminist epistemology. Thereby, we created ex profeso new methodological processes adapted to study the role of women as violence perpetrators in armed conflicts. Our proposal expands up to 5 different phases with either technical or emotional functions. The validity of this new methodological toolbox has been tested through an extensive research in the armed conflict of the Basque Country (Spain) performing oral histories to 25 women and 10 men.


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