EPISODE 7 – Asking sensitive questions: an ethical and methodological approach

In this episode, Yalkun Uluyol shares his experience in conducting interviews with various interlocutors (including senior diplomats, experts, members of parliaments, political elite) as a Turkey-based Uyghur researcher. Yalkun analyses how his Uyghur identity affected his interviewees as he asked « sensitive » questions, here understood as question on politically sensitive topics deemed risky, but also questions that may reactive traumas and create pain. He also reflects on methodological issues when facing victims who may have high (and often unachievable) expectations about what you can do about their situation as a researcher.

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