『個人の語り』をめぐる戦略–北アイルランドにおけるライフ・ストーリーの収集・編纂・発信の取り組みを事例に–
近年「ポスト紛争」時代に入ったと言われる北アイルランドでは、「個人の紛争経験」を収集・編集・発信する取り組みが、時には紛争の背景にある社会構造をあらわにする取組みとして、時には「無実の市民に対するテロリズム」の糾弾として多様な形で行われている。これらの取組みを事例に、「暴力の時代」を振り返り解釈する諸実践において「個人の語り」に付与される意味や象徴性、ならびにそれをめぐる多様な政治戦略を示したい。
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Strategies over individual narratives–Analysis of the practices of　collection/editing/dissemination of life stories in ‘post conflict’ Northern Ireland
In the late 1990s, after decades of political negotiation, a certain　degree of settlement was brought to the long-lasting conflict in　Northern Ireland. Since then, the projects collecting stories of　personal experience of the conflict have been launched by many　institutions, such as the commission set up by the government,　community work groups, museums and broadcast media.
It shows that there is now a widely shared idea in the society that 　interpreting the traumatic past through the voices of various 　individuals is crucial for the society reconstruction. However, the methodologies and perspectives of these projects are varied, which has led a number of debates to emerge regarding, for instance, what kind of voices now have to be heard, whether there is any particular social group that suffered more than other groups, and the power relationship and conflict within a community that has been long assumed as homogeneous, and so on.
Through the examination of these various projects this paper tries to explore the meaning given to “individual testimony” and the politics and strategies of the practice of collecting, editing, and disseminating the stories looking back on the period of violence.