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Commentary: Oral History as a Culture of Research
In dialogue with the work of anthropologist Roy Wagner, Gabriel Amato conceptualizes oral history as a culture of research shared by a research...
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The Unexpected in Oral History Case Studies of Surprising Interviews
How is an oral historian to react when the unexpected emerges, whether in field research or interview analysis? Answers tend to be scattered...
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Oral History als Methode
Oral History wird als Methode der Zeitgeschichte vorgestellt, die bei der Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit auf mündliche Quellen rekurriert....
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Testimonies in Historiography and Oral History
This chapter gives an overview of the ways in which testimony has been used by historians, and the ways in which it has influenced the development of...
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Commentary: Revisiting Oral Sources: The Unexpected and the Anticipated in Oral History Praxis
This chapter provides commentary on the chapters by Luciana Heymann and Verena Alberti, Daisy Perelmutter, and Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollanda...
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“Sincere Lies Interest Me”: The Power of Falsehood in Oral History
In this chapter, Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues reviews her own introduction to oral history, valuing the uniqueness of the interviews produced in...
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Commentary: How Do We Face the Unexpected? Constitutive Practices of Oral History
The author comments on the chapters authored by Monica Rebecca Ferrari Nunes, Joana Barros, Juliana Ventura de Souza Fernandes, and Philippe Denis....
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An Unexpected Gift: Oral History and the Documentation of Michfest
Focusing on the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, the author analyzes experiencing the unexpected in her attempt to document the history of that...
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‘The Master Director of All This is Time’: An Oral History Project in Sesto San Giovanni
This chapter describes an oral history project conducted between 2013 and 2015 on the case of Sesto San Giovanni, on the northern edge of Milan. All...
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My Grandfather’s Unknown History
In this chapter, Luiza Porto writes about the life story interviews conducted with her grandfather, Mr. João Batista, who was compulsorily admitted...
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Epilogue: Toward a Glocal Oral History
The Epilogue concludes that identity is a pliable toolbox where local and global identifiers are circumstantially chosen by migrants. Therefore, it...
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Twenty Years in Shades of Grey? Everyday Life During Normalisation Based on Oral History Research
Every year I begin my master’s course on the history of normalisation at Charles University’s Faculty of Humanities by asking students whether they...
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A Brief Oral History of Indo-Mozambican Life from 1947 to 1992
Herein, four migratory flashpoints of the twentieth century are introduced: (1) the end of British colonialism in India in 1947; (2) the invasion and...
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“Everything Has Been Said”: Surprising Encounters from Oral Histories in Ireland
This chapter discusses the obstacles oral historians face when working with reluctant narrators. The difficulties with interviews organized through...
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The Formal and the Informal in the History of Socialist Scholarly Interconnectedness in East Central Europe
With the emergence of Olympic internationalism, scholarly networking in East Central Europe came to be dominated by the idea of scholars representing...
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Navigating Class and Populist Politics in Contemporary Oral History Practice
While oral history has a long background of engaging with working-class narratives and questions of power and representation, the twenty-first...