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10.4000/etudesirlandaises.10714

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10.4000/etudesirlandaises.10714

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Represent the experience of the Magdalen Laundries through the “long track” of hermeneutics and computer-aided text analysis

Abstract

With the aim of grasping the incessant circulation of meaning in the activity of “remembering” specific to the mechanisms of restorative justice, this article presents the results obtained from the application of a unique experimental methodology, the graft of Ricoeurian hermeneutics on computer-assisted text analysis procedures, previously developed as part of my doctoral thesis on the Magdalen Laundries recognition journey in Ireland (1993-2014). In order to respond to the documentary gaps observed (government and private archives being sealed), this study ventured to promote the voice of people directly affected by this institutional violence to better understand the trajectories of oppression, the challenges of responsibility and, above all, to understand the lasting impact of exclusion on the lives of survivors. Based on the notion of “conflict of interpretations” (Paul Ricoeur, Le conflit des interprétations, 1969) which implies considering the tensions inherent in the production and circulation of meaning between individuals and groups, this study relied on the elaboration of a qualitative proposal in order to model the interpretative actions that take place at the level of the intimate and at the level of the nation.

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