Getting people to say something or making a speech happen: Some thoughts on the research interview
With experience, conducting research interviews may seem relatively easy. Yet, if you don’t want to reduce an interview to mere data collection, you still need to ask yourself what you are during when conducting the interview: you need to ask yourself about the construction of the research, about the researcher’s posture, about the meeting with the other party you’ve solicited. But we also need to ask ourselves what is at stake for this other party, what are the imposition effects, and what are the benefits for the other party. We offer ideas about these various issues in favour of a possible approach to interviewing as dialogue and storytelling.