The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is a comprehensive examination of oral history which addresses a wide range of practitioners, from beginning students to graduate students and established scholars, community and freelance practitioners in the field, and those from other fields and disciplines interested in oral history. The purpose of the book is to provide a broad range of readers with:
* An advanced introduction into and overview of the field; * Cutting-edge reflections on core themes in the field; and * Global comparative perspectives on oral history theory and practice
The Handbook is arranged in five thematic Parts: Creating Interviews, Interpreting Oral Histories, Making Histories, Advocacy & Empowerment, and Big Questions & Future Directions. Each chapter documents the state-of-the-art in a particular subject area and surveys the international historiography and current debates. Each chapter concludes with a brief outlook of potential future developments in the field.
With chapter authors from every region of the oral history world - North America, South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe - and each author making use of examples and scholarship from across the global field of oral history, this volume represents the first truly international handbook of oral history.
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Oral History has come of age as an historical methodology. In this Handbook the editors have assembled an invaluable and provocative collection of interventions by international scholars addressing oral history practice, theory, interpretation and its place as an animator of policy and social and political change. As both a review of the state of the field and a predictor of future developments, this book will be an essential reference point for anyone who seeks to engage with and understand the past through conversations with those who experienced it. * Lynn Abrams, Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, UK * The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History takes onand greatly succeeds atthe challenging task of assessing the practice from diverse angles through a multidisciplinary, global lens. It offers groundbreaking insights into the constructed and contested nature of oral history today, invigorated by contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners. * Stephen M. Sloan, Director Institute for Oral History, Baylor University, USA *
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An international anthology which reviews, explores and defines the field of oral history in a global context.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
Introduction 1
Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)Erin Jessee, (University of
Glasgow, UK) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
PART 1 CREATING INTERVIEWS
Introduction 13
1 Oral History and the Interview 25
Amy Starecheski (Columbia University, USA)
2 The Interviewees Experience of Oral History 41
Anna Sheftel (Concordia University, Canada)
3 Designing Ethical Oral History Projects and Partnerships 57
Carla Pascoe Leahy (Independent Historian, Australia)
4 The Oral History Relationship: Interviewing Latin American Activists 73
Pablo Pozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
5 The Anxieties of Oral History Dialogues 89
Sean Field (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
PART 2 INTERPRETING ORAL HISTORIES
Introduction 107
6 Oral History as Evidence: Multidisciplinary Approaches 119
Anna Green (Stout Research Centre, New Zealand)
7 Voice, Emotion, Language, Narrative, Body: Analyzing Meaning in Oral
History 137
Lindsey Dodd (Independent Historian, UK)
8 Oral History as Data: Multimodal Approaches to Analysis and
Interpretation 153
Andrew Flinn, (University College London, UK) Julianne Nyhan, (TU Darmstadt,
Germany and University College London, UK) and Hannah Smyth (University
College London, UK)
9 When Relationships and Stories Guide Our Practice: Subjectivities,
Intersubjectivities, and Intersectionality in Oral History 171
Katrina Srigley (Nipissing University, Canada)
10 Negotiating Interpretative Conflict in Oral History 193
Ricardo Santhiago (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
PART 3 MAKING HISTORIES
Introduction 209
11 Writing Oral History 219
Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
12 Oral History and Creative Writing 237
Ariella Van Luyn (University of New England, Australia)
13 Listening for Place: Curating Landscape with Oral History 255
Mark Tebeau (Arizona State University, USA)
14 Making Audiovisual Histories: Oral History in Disguise 271
Nairy AbdElShafy (Independent Historian and Researcher, Egypt)
15 Oral History Performance 289
Clare Summerskill (Independent Researcher, UK)
PART 4 ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT
Introduction 305
16 Listening for Change: Oral History, Policy, and Professional Practice 313
Alison Chand (University of Strathclyde and University of the Highlands and
Islands, Scotland)
17 Crisis Oral History: Methodology, Ethics, and Pedagogy 329
Hourig Attarian, (American University of Armenia, Armenia) Erin Jessee,
(University of Glasgow, UK) Kathryn Nasstrom (University of San Francisco,
USA) and Monica Eileen Patterson (Carleton University, Canada)
18 Testimony and Transitional Justice: Speaking, Truth, and Power 345
Anna Bryson (Queens University Belfast, Ireland) and Julia Volkmar (Law
Society of Ireland, Ireland)
19 Teaching with Oral History: Reckoning with Stories of the Past 365
Kristina R. Llewellyn, (McMaster University, Canada) Nicholas Ng-A-Fook,
(University of Ottawa, Canada) Marina Bantiou, (University of Thessaly and
University of Peloponnese, Greece) Patrick Phillips (University of Ottawa,
Canada), and Kiera Brant-Birioukov (Independent researcher, Canada)
PART 5 CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Introduction 383
20 I Am the Voice of My Ancestors: Defining Oral History on
Indigenous Terms 393
Nepia Mahuika (Massey University, New Zealand)
21 Oral History and our Planetary Future 409
Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia) and Meera Anna Oommen
(Independent academic, India)
22 Monitoring the Self: Oral History in an Age of Autobiography
and Surveillance 425
Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
23 AI and Oral History: Anticipating Oral Historys Fifth Paradigm 443
Douglas A. Boyd (University of Kentucky Libraries, USA)
Epilogue: Oral History in Troubling Times 459
Alexander Freund, (University of Winnipeg, Canada) Erin Jessee, (University
of Glasgow, UK) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 463
INDEX 467
Alexander Freund is Professor of History and holds the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He co-founded the UWinnipeg Oral History Centre, has been active in the International Oral History Association and several national oral history associations. He has published widely in oral history and is the author of Being German-Canadian: History, Memory, and Generations (2021).
Erin Jessee is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she works across the programs research streams in oral history, war studies, gender history, and global history. She has fifteen years of experience working in Rwanda, among other conflict-affected contexts, and is the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda (2017). More recently, she has begun focusing on early Rwandan history and cultural heritage studies, and has co-authored an oral historybased graphic novel, Nyiragitwa, among other publications.
Alistair Thomson is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia and President of Oral History Australia. He previously served as President of the International Oral History Association (2006-08) and editor of the British journal Oral History (1991-2007). His oral history books include: Anzac Memories (1994 and 2013), The Oral History Reader (1998, 2006 and 2015 with Robert Perks), Ten Pound Poms (2005, with Jim Hammerton), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011, with Alexander Freund), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017, with Anisa Puri).
