Using the “Middle-Voice” Methodology as a Way of Bridging Conflict Narrativ: A Case of Research on Deportations from the region of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia after the Second World War

• Published in: Kronika (Ljubljana) 2024-12, Vol.72 (3), p.595-606
• Main Author: Lampe, Urška
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0023-4923; 2670-6865
• DOI: 10.56420/kronika.72.3.13

Based on her research on deportations from the region of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia after the Second World War, the author of the article analyses the methodology of the so-called middle voice and its impact on scientific research and society. The research, which lasted for over a decade, comprised collection and in-depth analysis of numerous archival sources, the methodology of oral history, as well as the acquisition and analysis of oral testimonies and other ego-documents. She therefore applied the “middle voice” methodology, where truth is a necessary but not sufficient part of historiography. Such an approach proved to be extremely positive for narrators who were thus given an opportunity to speak up freely about their past and experiences while obtaining certain answers that they had perhaps been seeking for a long time. V pričujočem prispevku avtorica na primeru svoje raziskave o deportacijah iz Julijske krajine v Jugoslavijo po drugi svetovni vojni analizira metodologijo »srednjega glasu« in njene znanstveno-raziskovalne ter družbene učinke. Več kot desetletje trajajoča raziskava je zajemala zbiranje in poglobljeno analizo številnih arhivskih virov ter metodologijo ustne zgodovine, pa tudi pridobivanje in analiziranje ustnih pričevanj in drugih egodokumentov. Uporabila je torej metodologijo »srednjega glasu«, kjer je resnica nujen, ne pa tudi zadosten del zgodovinopisja. Tak pristop se je izkazal kot zelo pozitiven za naratorje, ki so dobili priložnost neobremenjeno spregovoriti o svoji preteklosti in izkušnji, hkrati pa so dobili nekatere odgovore, ki so jih morda že leta iskali.