Part of the Understanding Statistics/Understanding Qualitative Researcch series, Oral History serves as a guide to properly recording oral histories. This volume also addresses the challenges of ...evaluating this material.
This second issue of Oral History focuses primarily on the Russo-Ukrainian War and features the testimonies of 10 Ukrainian priests collected between 2018 and 2019 as part of the ATO Oral History ...project. Launched in 2015, the ATO Oral History project aims to collect and publish oral testimonies of participants in and eyewitnesses to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The project’s name includes the initialism “ATO,” which refers to “Anti-Terrorist Operation,” the name announced by the Ukrainian govern...
Archiving Bilingual Latin@ Oral Histories Foulis, Elena; D'Souza, Brandon
The International journal of information, diversity, & inclusion,
01/2023, Letnik:
6, Številka:
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Over the past ten years, digital archives documenting underrepresented communities have been rising. For example, oral and print historical projects about minoritized communities and ethnic cultural ...heritage centers have existed for decades (Daniel, 2010), yet few are fully accessible online. The increased presence of these types of archives points not only to the need to document the histories of these communities but also to the interest in making this work accessible to all. There is an urgency in documenting, archiving, and curating histories—audio, print, video, and other ephemera—because minoritized communities have consistently faced exclusion from majority historical documents. As precarious and essential as this work is, important projects like the one discussed here are often shared as an in-process version. This process allows us to shape and consider new ways of archiving, perhaps even disrupting traditional collecting and accessioning methods beyond canonical (White) standards. This article shows our interest in developing a decolonized model for archiving digital oral history collections. Indeed, much of the way we are thinking about making the collection accessible is by centering it on bilingual descriptions of each item in the collection signals a non-traditional and, thus, decolonial way of documenting a community.
“Archiving Bilingual Latin@ Oral Histories” is an initiative to make an already existing digital oral history archive accessible to the community it documents. From collecting stories, accessioning, and website design and content, it seeks to work collaboratively with students and the community to present a bilingual archive representing the Latina/o/x community in Ohio.
Denne artikel søgte at undersøge kønsidentiteternes rolle i erindringsdannelsen om Holocaust gennem en analyse af 46 Oral History video interviews, der beskrev kvindeligt vagtpersonale i de ...nazistiske koncentrationslejre. Samtidig søgtes en vurdering af kønsteoriens brugbarhed i holocaustforskningen og en forståelse af, hvordan køn påvirkede beskrivelserne af gerningsmændene. Det teoretiske fundament var det socialkonstruktivistiske kønssyn, kønsstereotyper og kønnede diskurser. Artiklen argumenterer for, at køn havde en tydelig effekt på erindringskonstruktionen: De kvindelige vidner anvendte kvindelige kønsstereotyper til at nedgøre voldelige vagter og til at rose dem som ydede assistance. Samtidigt blev skønhedsidealer, sex og homoseksualitet også brugt som fundament for negative diskurser. Selvom det kun var muligt at spore kønnede diskurser i 19 af vidnesbyrdene, danner resultaterne et solidt bevis for køns indflydelse på holocaust-minder. En udforskning af kønnede diskurser i behandlingen af det mandlige vagtpersonale ville være en naturlig udvidelse af denne artikel og ville ekspandere forståelsen af kønnede diskurser generelt.
This article discusses the relationship between history and memory, focusing on the relevance and role of subjectivity and oral sources in contemporary Italian historiography. Starting from a review ...of Gabriella Gribaudi's La memoria, i traumi, la storia. La guerra e le catastrofi nel Novecento, the article looks at a particularly interesting historiographical debate this book raised. It then reflects in more general terms on how the relationship between oral history and history without adjectives has evolved from the 1970s to the present, pointing to some key questions that remain open to discussion.
Hrsg. von Erhard Roy Wiehn. Hrsg. Der Wechsel zwischen oft bürokratisch klingenden, aber immer wieder in den menschenverachtenden Mordjargon fallenden deutschen Berichten und Anordnungen und den ...drastischen Darstellungen der sich dahinter verbergenden Realität durch die Opfer (von denen die meisten der Ermordung nicht entgingen) ist ein Vorzug dieser Edition. Und eher unglaubliche Dokumente, wie den Bericht eines SS-Offiziers aus Chełm, der schon im Januar 1940 einen Transport mit 800 Juden einfach erschießen ließ, weil die Waggons "unzumutbar" verdreckt gewesen seien (S. 4/204), was natürlich an den von den Deutschen gestalteten Transportumständen lag. In einem Interview muss vieles improvisiert werden - gerade dort, wo Historiker Konkretes erwarten (was in diesem Fall durchaus befriedigt wird), ist es vielleicht den Interviewten wichtiger, Gefühle auszudrücken - was je nach Fragestellung ja gerade das ist, was oral history im Unterschied zu konventionellen historischen Akten-Quellen bieten kann.
The tradition of minstrelsy; it is one of the most important elements that keep Turkish culture alive in the oral tradition. It carried traces from the pre-Islamic era and continued its existence ...with the transition from geographic, religious changes and the tradition of kamlik to the tradition of poetry. The tradition of minstrelsy, which is the work of a rich cultural accumulation that is based on the life of the Turks before Islam and takes the names of bard, kam, baksı, asik according to the geographical regions they live in, extends from Central Asia to the Anatolian geography and reflects the social, cultural, geographical, historical, customs, customs and traditions of the centuries, It has existed in areas such as coffee houses and teahouses and has survived to the present day. The minstrels, who say what the public does not say, who see what they do not see and hear what they do not hear, have been the spokespersons and defenders of the people in this tradition. One of the spokesperson of the society, who has rejoiced, missed, loved, and went abroad, is Aşık Özlemî, who lived in Gümüşhacıköy district of Amasya. In this study, the life, minstrelsy and poems of Aşık Özlemî will be examined in terms of content. Aşık Özlemî is a lover who says hello to life in the land where it grows, gets married, works in the land where she grew up, and is also a lover whose reputation has spread throughout the country by creating an audience in her own geography. It will be the first in the field of study addressed to introduce Özlemî. Thus, the recognition of the light by future generations and its importance within the tradition will be emphasized. It is thought that this study will shed light on the future scientific studies. This study will especially prevent the erosion of the minstrelsy tradition created by the conservatory minstrels that emerged recently. Reflecting cultural value judgments and master-apprentice relationship, the lover will be recognized by scientific circles. Thus, the minstrels will contribute to the formation of the corpus.
This article offers a survey of the past fifty years' literature on oral history and ethics, arguing that oral historians' approaches to ethics have emerged from two major fears: the fear of failing ...as researchers and the fear of failing our narrators and doing harm. These professional and personal fears have evolved through three distinct but overlapping phases: postwar positivism, the subjective turn, and contemporary interdisciplinarity. Confronting them makes it possible to understand the complex questions behind oral historians' preoccupations. This sheds light on how oral history has evolved and expanded as a field, and what we hope it can and will achieve.
This article adds to a growing body of literature that aims to correct the traditional lack of attention to the role of women lawyers who have exercised their power as active citizens by ...participating in legal reform and facilitating access to social justice for all Australians. The paper highlights the unique contribution to gender equality of one such woman, Eve Mahlab AO, through a close examination of her oral history, which was drawn from the pilot stage of a project that now comprises a corpus of over fifty interviews recorded with 'trailblazing' Australian women lawyers. The methodology adopted is innovative in combining a legal analysis and a discourse analysis of the interview with Eve Mahlab. This approach offers insights into those aspects of her personal and professional biography that most influenced and enabled her contributions in the public and private spheres, allowing us to publicly acknowledge and record them. The paper demonstrates how such use of oral history broadens and deepens our understanding of the diverse social and professional forces that shape political consciousness and motivate feminist engagement in civic activity.
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