The Poetry of Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Towards a New Performative Social Science

Abstract: Performative Social Science provides the research scientist with a much needed platform to move beyond traditional approaches to data collection, analysis and the presentation of study findings towards a response to research questions that closely resonates with the raw materials at hand. For the Performative Social Scientist's voice to be heard, new ways must be found to consider how best to represent the social world, relaxing longstanding and rigid qualitative research frameworks in favour of more contemporary and flexible approaches to working that welcome inter-disciplinary practice. By re-defining the theoretical and paradigmatic boundaries of our studies we can then encourage others to consider a range of alternative positions from which to view the world. The paper embraces the potential such a platform offers by presenting one Holocaust survivor's lived experiences of these extraordinary events including internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Through a visual.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/405

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The Poetry of Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Towards a New Performative Social Science ; volume:9 ; number:2 ; day:31 ; month:05 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 9, Heft 2 (31.05.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Rapport, Frances

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-9.2.405
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802285
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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