What is it about?
As a (military) scientist, how can you make use of egodocuments (books, diaries, blogs and the like) in which people/soldiers describe their own experiences?
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Why is it important?
Egodocuments are extremely interesting sources for researchers, as they provide an in-depth insight into people and their environment. But they come with some particularities that this article explains.
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This page is a summary of: Researching ‘The Most Dangerous of all Sources’, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780203093801.ch14.
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Resources
On Military Memoirs
This book has a very extensive chapter on quantitative and qualitative research methods for egodocuments. And the outcomes of my study into international military Afghanistan memoirs.
Truth and (Self) Censorship in Military Memoirs
This paper looks at one of the particularities of military egodocuments: how its writers deal with issues of censorship and self-censorship.
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