Experiencing in History (20th century): Some Methodological Issues on Women Confinement
(2015) International Conference Experiencing Justice. Researching citizens’ contacts with judicial practices — Location: Bruxelles (5.March.2015)
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- The object of this paper is a theoretical/methodological/epistemological reflection on the possibility, for the researcher in history, to measure the experience of people which are the subject of social regulation measures, via confinement in closed institution. The paper draws both on archival sources and interdisciplinary theoretical works, which are put in relation constantly. In the first place, I will build on my own experience as an historian and different sources for analysis : sources from public closed institutions in Belgium (institutions for young offenders), judicial sources from Quebec (child magistrates in Montreal), hospital sources (private psychiatric institution for women in Belgium). Second, I integrate scientific literature from the historical, criminological, sociological and philosophical sciences, especially on the question of: discourse analysis and the need to link it with empirical research (contribution of the two types of analysis); individual experience in the judiciary and the possibility to measure it ; the personal experience of the researcher, which necessarily affects his understanding of individual experience he studies; gender distinctions (work on male or female detainees, contribution of feminist historiography) influencing the methodologies. The authors mobilized will include: Gilles Chantraine, Claude Faugeron, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Erving Goffman, Mary Bosworth, Joan Sangster, Corinne Rostaing, Elsa Dorlin, Judith Butler, Joan Scott, François Dubet, Georg Simmel, Antoinette Chauvenet.
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Massin, V. (2015). Experiencing in History (20th century): Some Methodological Issues on Women Confinement. International Conference Experiencing Justice. Researching citizens’ contacts with judicial practices, Bruxelles. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/74009