Interview: with Muriel Blaive on (not only) about why it is important to ask the right question
In turbulent times, achieving peace and tranquility is often linked to the identification of "truth." Certainly there may be authoritarian narratives or canonical discourses that in many cases represent some “official” or “generally accepted” truths – but the question remains to what extent such “ideal” interpretations actually fit everyone. But on the other hand, each of us also has our own story – our own unique account of our perception of the world, as well as of all the circumstances that have helped to shape our lives. I am therefore very glad that in the following interview we have most likely managed to combine both: the account of Muriel Blaive's own experience of the Czech environment from the perspective of a sociologist of French origin, as well as her views (not only) on our Czechoslovak past - which she has managed to formulate thanks to her talent for listening to people's stories and which I personally find balanced, genuine and full of understanding.Let us now let Muriel Blaive explain herself in the following lines in more detail why she considers, among other things, the ability to identify, formulate and ask the right question to be one of the basic prerequisites for successful - i.e. honest and scientifically rigorous - research; and thus a path to understanding the very "object" of research.Ondřej Krátký, Rebuildsyria.czThe interview originally appeared HERE.