Whitburn, Ben (2018) The kids are alright: they have been included for years. In, Runswick-Cole, Katherine, Curran, Tillie and Liddiard, Kirsty (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 159-175. (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9_12).
Abstract
In this chapter, I examine the roles and limitations to the incitement of voice in qualitative interviews in disabled children’s childhood studies. I argue that voice and experience are mediated concepts—both by life circumstances and the power relations between the researcher and participants present in interviews. To demonstrate my argument, I work through my experiences of interviewing a group of 23 young people with disabilities who attended secondary schools in Spain. Of the group, only roughly a third responded to any extent to questions I put to them. I suggest that interviews that might appear on the surface to be unrewarding might speak volumes in their silences. I conclude by reconceptualising the interview, in which I advance alternative ideas to the providence of voice in qualitative research.
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