In Relation: The 'Social Self' and Ego-Documents

Fulbrook, Mary; Rublack, Ulinka

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“…All these would be fruitful avenues to explore (see e.g. Paperno 2004;Hellbeck 2004;Aurell 2006;Wallach 2006;Fulbrook and Rublack 2010). To take an example from this list of works, Jaume Aurell seeks to use autobiographical texts as historiographical sources; he connects autobiographies written by historians to the histories that they write.…”

Section: The Practice Of Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: a genealogy

Millard

2019

Soc Theory Health

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The inclusion of personal experience in academic work, especially in the medical humanities, has increased markedly in the recent past. This article traces the roots of this development, arguing that it is not a simply offshoot of 'experts by experience' in mental health, but has its own specific set of precursors and enabling conditions. Three of these are explored in detail, under the headings of 'psychoanalysis', 'social history' and 'anthropology'. The continuing influence of psychoanalysis privileges the public expression of personal experience as a vital tool and site for self-development. Social history (from the 1960s onwards) takes 'experience' as its privileged object in understanding the past. The tools of twentieth-century anthropology animate much social constructionist and cultural history. This anthropology is based upon the 'lived experience' of the anthropologists, who immerse themselves into the life-world of the 'natives'. The article concludes by cautioning against the unthinking or naïve use of experience as a sure foundation for work in the medical humanities, drawing upon the theoretical insights of Joan Scott, Judith Butler and Sarah Shortall.

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Section: The Practice Of Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: a genealogy

Millard

2019

Soc Theory Health

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“…There is considerable terminological variety around the idea of ‘personal account’, spanning from autobiographies to letters or petitions to authorities, from oral sources to written records. Here, I draw on the nonetheless problematic definition by Mary Fulbrook and Ulinka Rublak (: 263) of the ‘ego‐document’ (‘a source or “document” ─ understood in the widest sense─ providing an account of, or revealing privileged information about, the “self” who produced it’). There can be personal accounts presenting a debatable narrative nature, but the memoirs, auto‐biographies, diaries, journals and travel books that I use are all clearly personal narratives.…”

Section: Personal Accounts As Sources For Studying (National) Identitymentioning

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Reconstructing the history of nationalist cognition and everyday nationhood from personal accounts

Almendral

2018

Nations and Nationalism

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New approaches to nationalism have focused on the role of human agency within nation‐building structures (nationhood from below, everyday nationalism, experiences of nation, personal nationalism, etc.). However, the development of specific methodologies is still scarce. This paper proposes the use of personal accounts (mostly journals and autobiographies, but not only) as sources for qualitative historical research in nations and nationalism. Departing from the concepts of ‘identity’, ‘experience’ and ‘memory’, it is argued that, although very problematic, these sources are a valid path to the study of nations as they are: social phenomena of discursive nature and political frame, whose real agents are individuals. When these agents narrate their lives employing the nation as a meaningful category, they are not producing mere second‐hand reflections of superior and prior realms, but are performing microhistorical acts of nation‐making that are significant for understanding any case of nation‐building. The paper includes an empirical example using British personal accounts from the Age of Revolutions (c.1780–1840).

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“…Traditionally, such autobiographical or personal writings, also referred to as 'egodocuments' or 'life writing', were considered optimum sources for biographers as they were thought to provide insight into authentic and direct experiences of the author (Bosch 1987;Fullbrook & Rublack 2010). This is indeed how most biographers of Power have used her diaries and correspondence.…”

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Constructing the persona of a Professional Historian. On Eileen Power's early career persona formation and her year in Paris, 1910-1911

Wal

2018

Pers Stud

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British medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940) was one of Britain's most eminent female historians of the first half of the twentieth century. Becoming professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, Power gained academic recognition to a degree that was difficult for women to obtain in this period. Numerous writings on Power discuss 1920-1921, when she travelled around the world as an Albert-Kahn fellow, as a formative year in her career indicating the importance of travel for achieving scholarly success. In contrast, no attention has been paid to the significance of Power's first academic journey in 1910-1911, when she spent a year in Paris. This stay abroad would however be equally decisive since it was then that she decided to pursue a career in history and become a professional scholar in the medieval discipline. However, at this time, women were not self-evident scholars but rather considered amateurs, even if they had an academic degree. Therefore, the main question in this article is whether and how Power started to build up her scholarly persona while in Paris, trying to overcome her amateur status, to be seen and recognized as a credible, trustworthy scholar. To do so, I analyse two types of personal writing namely Power's diary and letters to her close friend Margery Garrett. Employing the concept of 'autobiographical performativity', I consider these writings as performative acts that help us gain valuable insight into Eileen Power's persona formation during the early stages of her career.

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In Relation: The 'Social Self' and Ego-Documents

Cited by 82 publications

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Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: a genealogy

Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: a genealogy

Reconstructing the history of nationalist cognition and everyday nationhood from personal accounts

Constructing the persona of a Professional Historian. On Eileen Power's early career persona formation and her year in Paris, 1910-1911

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