Nyhan, Julianne;
Flinn, Andrew;
(2016)
Revolutionaries and Underdogs.
In:
Computation and the Humanities.
(pp. 257-275).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Taking the work of Passerini (1979) and Portelli (1981) as a theoretical backdrop, this chapter will describe, contextualise and interpret a narrative (or ‘story’) that was recalled in a number, but not all, of the oral history interviews. This narrative concerns interviewees’ experiences of having been ignored, undermined or marginalised by the mainstream academic community. For the purposes of discussion we will refer to this as the ‘motif of the underdog’. We will complement this analysis of the oral history interviews by looking to the scholarly literature of the field and examining a theme that often occurs there, namely DH’s supposedly revolutionary status (referred to below as the ‘motif of the revolutionary’). Our analysis will raise the question of how DH managed to move from the margins towards the mainstream while continuing to portray itself as both underdog and revolutionary? Drawing on literature from social psychology, the history of disciplinarity and the wider backdrop of oral history, we will argue that the motifs discussed here can better be understood in terms of their function rather than their internal coherence.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Revolutionaries and Underdogs |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-319-20169-6 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2_17 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2_17 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material. |
| Keywords: | Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology, Technology, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Arts & Humanities - Other Topics, Computer Science, HUMANITIES, COMPUTERS, PROJECT, ANNALS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203858 |
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