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This chapter examines in detail the process of performing interviews in life history, life story and narrative research. The authors focus on a set of collaborative life history interviews that the first author (April Vannini) conducted with the second author and storyteller (Coreen Gladue). April Vannini discusses how together they have reflected on the interviewing process in particular and the research process in general. She further reflects on the ways they were able to democratise the interview process by using 10 of Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) decolonising projects together with indigenous ways of knowing – the talking circle (Graveline 1998 ), and reflexive dyadic interviewing (Ellis and Berger 2003). The ultimate goal of this chapter is to examine the process of “story sharing” as a way to democratise interviewing.
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Vannini, A., Gladue, C. (2008). Decolonised Methodologies in Cross-Cultural Research. In: Liamputtong, P. (eds) Doing Cross-Cultural Research. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8567-3_10
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