長期紛争経験を聞くことの解釈学

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This article discusses a hermeneutics of narrating-and-listening interactions with a focus on the experience of long-term ethnic conflict. It explores one type of the stories that the author encountered in her field, Northern Ireland after the "Peace" Agreement, and presents one of the possible perspectives to understand stories that initially sound incoherent. The stories, told by several women living in Belfast working-class districts, described the everyday life during the height of the conflict as extraordinarily hard and normal at the same time. Analysing such storytelling practices and interactions between the storyteller and listener in the interview space as social and ethnographic data will bring under light a mode of narrative negotiation between those who went through the conflict, "the insider," and those who did not, "the outsider."