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This chapter presents several interview models that can be applied while conducting interviews with the powerful. ‘Informal’ interviewing that often takes place in ethnographic contexts is outlined, as well as the ‘classical’ doxastic interviewing. We then move on to more specific interview models, such as the ‘looking glass’ model, where researcher positions herself or himself as a peer or even as a co-expert, ‘epistemic interviews’, which probe into the foundation for the judgments about situations, and ‘active’ interviewing models, in which the researcher assumes a rather critical role. All of these models will be discussed according to the type of knowledge they generate, interviewer’s self-positioning, the nature of interview interactions and interviewing styles.
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The use of disclaimers is a discursive strategy that indicates a priori social desirability but the speaker then goes ahead and says what she/he actually intends to say (e.g., ‘I’m not racist, but …’) (Machin & Mayr, 2012).
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Petintseva, O., Faria, R., Eski, Y. (2020). Interview Models and Researcher’s Self-Positioning. In: Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33000-2_3
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