Only After Death Do Us Part? Contemporary Biography, Oral History, and Writing about Living People Today

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RyMGa.n0HP" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RyMGa.n0HP</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24645370.4999" target="_blank" >10.14712/24645370.4999</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Only After Death Do Us Part? Contemporary Biography, Oral History, and Writing about Living People Today

Original language description

This essay explores the area of contemporary biography, i.e., biographical research about living people conducted in the field of historical sciences. A special emphasis is put on oral history and its use in selected biographies, older and recent, which serve as examples of several specificities of this approach. Furthermore, the author finds two ideal-typical roles that the main protagonist may play in this type of biographical writing, both participative, with the first being relatively &quot;silent&quot; and the second more &quot;vocal.&quot; The essay touches on problems such as negotiating the roles of the researchers and the research subject, authorization, research ethics, current legislation, and the pros and cons of this approach. More broadly, this article aims to widen the range of theoretical and methodological discussion in the field of biography studies. It also illustrates that contemporary oral history-based biographies have a long tradition from which we may draw on for our future projects.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Dějiny - teorie - kritika (History-Theory-Criticism.)

ISSN

1214-7249

e-ISSN

2464-5370

Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

81-102

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105014357765