Crisis as a challenge or an excuse? Some pitfalls in the implementation of oral history projects during (and after) the "covid" crisis
2021
Abstract
The article emphasizes the key topics of (primarily) oral history projects' realization in times of crisis, respectively the global coronavirus crisis, which serves as a model example in this regard. The author pays particular attention to the effects of the crisis during various project phases: from the change in narrators' interest and priorities, through their intensive contacts with researchers in the time after the interview, to the change in the interviewer-narrator relationship due to health risks.
The paper also touches on deepening the "psychotherapeutic" role of the interviewer in projects if they are implemented in times of crisis.