scholarly journals ON THE PRODUCTION OF MY FAIR LION AND HIS PRIDE: A REFLEXIVE EXERCISE IN ORAL HISTORY

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Maarman Samuel Tshehla
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Memory Formation ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

My fair lion and his pride is an autobiographical narrative of the life story of a respected and beloved, yet reserved and unlettered matriarch. The pleasure of capturing her recollections befell the present author. Consequently, the task of reflecting on the process that led to the production of My fair lion has also befallen him. In the present reflection, the author undertakes a retrospective journey guided by questions pertaining to oral history methodology. The dynamics of an individual remembering past events; the place of formal literacy in memory formation and retrieval; the role of the oral historian in oral history interviews and such other issues are indirectly explored below. In the end, it appears that while this author’s preceding ignorance of oral history considerations may have disadvantaged the production of My fair lion, the latter retains and communicates sufficient qualities not of a grand narrative, but of a down-to-earth Christian mother, wife, and in-law.

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Shukla ◽  
Jazmin Alfaro ◽  
Carol Cochrane ◽  
Cindy Garson ◽  
Gerald Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian Academies, 2014) that highlight community voices in food security still remain under-represented and under-studied in this discourse. University of Winnipeg (UW) researchers and Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) representatives began an action research partnership to explore Indigenous knowledges associated with food cultivation, production, and consumption practices within the community since 2012. The participatory, place-based, and collaborative case study involved 17 oral history interviews with knowledge keepers of FRCN. The goal was to understand their perspectives of and challenges to community food security, and to explore the potential role of Indigenous food knowledges in meeting community food security needs. In particular, the role of land-based Indigenous foods in meeting community food security through restoration of health, cultural values, identity, and self-determination were emphasized by the knowledge keepers—a vision that supports Indigenous food sovereignty. The restorative potential of Indigenous food sovereignty in empowering individuals and communities is well-acknowledged. It can nurture sacred relationships and actions to renew and strengthen relationships to the community’s own Indigenous land-based foods, previously weakened by colonialism, globalization, and neoliberal policies.

scholarly journals Particular popular science: British scientists writing, speaking and broadcasting on science and religion from the 1980 s

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Merchant
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Extended Life ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Popular Books

This paper draws on extended life story oral history interviews with scientists who, beginning in the 1980s, turned to writing popular books, making radio and television programmes and taking to the stage for public lectures and debates, with relations between science and religion often a key topic: Peter Atkins, Nicholas Humphrey, Steve Jones, John Polkinghorne, Russell Stannard and Lewis Wolpert. I show that these interviews capture aspects of motivation and experience missed in much existing work on popular science. Stressing historical and individual particularity, I argue that what these scientists say about their decisions, aims and rewards should make us question a strong tendency in recent scholarship both to regard popular science as part of scientific work in general, and also to read the outcomes of popular science – such as advocacy for science or the promotion of certain theories – as the motivations for its production.

Understanding Scottishness among Sojourners, Settlers and Descendants in Hong Kong and New Zealand

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Watson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Descent Group ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Identities and their construction are often complex processes for migrants who in an increasingly globalised and transnational world may have a number of identities upon which to draw. Mary Waters, researching white ethnic identity among multigenerational groups in suburban California, describes the choice as ‘a social process that is in flux . . . a dynamic and complex phenomenon’.1 Additionally, it is a process that can change dependent on age, time and environment. Nor is it based on a set of rules structured along primordial ancestral lines. This chapter seeks to evaluate identity selection and the use of Scottish identity or ‘Scottishness’ among Scottish migrants to New Zealand (labelled ‘settlers’) and Hong Kong (‘sojourners’) and the multigenerational descent group in New Zealand. It does so by deploying the responses generated by a small sample of 145 respondents who answered a complex questionnaire, circulated through the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Scottish Interest Group and the Hong Kong St Andrew’s Society, designed to identify potential oral history interviewees. These responses are supported by in-depth, semi-structured life-story oral history interviews.

Micro-history of a house: memory and place in a Milanese neighbourhood, 1890–2000

Urban History ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN FOOT
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Urban History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Changing World

ABSTRACTThe micro-history of one apartment block in the inner-suburb of Bovisa, Milan over a period of 100 or so years is examined using oral history interviews to trace the development of the block and its residents in relation to that of the city of Milan. The piece is bounded by theoretical reflections on the role of micro-history, oral history and other methodologies as tools for understanding the home and urban history, and concludes that the survival of a rural past, the role of gender, the importance of architecture and of nostalgic memory in a rapidly changing world were important influences.

scholarly journals TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SABAR DRUMS: INNOVATIONS IN ORGANOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN SENEGAL AND THE DIASPORA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Patricia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
South African ◽  
First Century ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s–50s through the 1960s–70s when New Brighton’s premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their artistry. The role of swing bands in New Brighton and surrounding communities as the training ground for members of the Soul Jazzmen and other local musicians of note is discussed, as well as how the Soul Jazzmen in turn were tutors for musicians of the next generation who became widely recognized artists, composers and arrangers. This is followed by a focus on the Soul Jazzmen and compositions by its members that protested against the apartheid regime in the 1960s–70s. The article is informed by historic photographs, newspaper clippings and information from oral history interviews that richly document how jazz was performed in service of the anti-apartheid struggle in New Brighton.

scholarly journals “Communism Didn’t Touch My Kids Like Me.” Images of Communism in a Family Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-323
Author(s):  
Petra Schindler-Wisten
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Period Change ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Family Perspective ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The target of this study is to introduce one particular life story and on the basis of its content analysis to focus on the narrator’s connection with the period of so-called normalization era in Czechoslovakia. Based on oral history interviews with one narrator during the longitudinal oral history project, the author focuses on whether the memories of a given period change over time and how the narrator reflects on his memories. The author maps the narrator’s family background, the extent to which it shaped him and how he evaluated it as a thirty year old man and now, when he is fifty years old. The core of our narrator’s life story stays the same in principle; he did not change it after twenty years. The reason is that the narrator’s experience and the memories have sunk in and are consistent. What changed in the narrator’s story is the amount of self-reflection that was reflected during the last interview. It was confirmed that shifts in the reflection are a common phenomenon and that some variability may not be conscious. Interpretations and evaluations of life can change, but the experiences themselves do not change.

Consistency and change in the repeated narratives of Holocaust survivors

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Schiff ◽  
Heather Skillingstead ◽  
Olivia Archibald ◽  
Alex Arasim ◽  
Jenny Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Critical Aspects

In this article, we study the oral history interviews of eight survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We give a detailed analysis of a central narrative in their life story, the “selection narrative,” the experience of being forcibly separated from family into groups for labor or death, as it is told in the late 1970s-to-early 1980s and again in the 1990s. We study patterns of structure and variation in the referential aspects of narrative, how narratives recapitulate past actions, and the evaluative aspects of narrative, how narratives are interpreted. Our analysis of these eight sets of repeated narratives focuses on four processes that help structure consistent accounts over time: the past, previous tellings, culture and the interview situation. In each set of repeated narratives, the selection narrative maintains significant portions of the complicating action and evaluations over time. At the same time, various changes are evident that alter the style or interpretation of the narrative. In other words, changes were, in large measure, observed in “how” or “why” the narrative was told but not in “what” was recounted. Our data suggests that despite changes in context, critical aspects of our identities endure over long periods of time.

scholarly journals Casting, diversity and fluid identities in Australian television

2019 ◽  
Vol 174 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Kyle Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Television Production ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
And Function ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article examines the practice and function of casting in the Australian television industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. It investigates the role of ethnicity and accents and the practice of casting actors of migrant backgrounds in Australian drama, variety and comedy. In an industry so often dominated by Anglo-Australian stories, faces and voices, the increasing presence of actors from non-English-speaking backgrounds and non-European ethnicities has been a key feature of the changing nature of Australian television production. By analysing ‘Showcast’ casting directories, supplemented with oral history interviews, this article suggests that actors have tended to adopt fluid or hybrid identities to navigate the casting process and find steady work in the television industry. The manipulation of identity, I argue, sits at the nexus of overlapping cultural spheres amid the challenging operation of multiculturalism in Australian media.

scholarly journals What’s in a name: The politics of queer on campus

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072094730
Author(s):  
Kate O’Riordan ◽  
Sharon Webb
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Name Change ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The University ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
Student Society

This paper draws upon oral history interviews and archival work carried out to examine the history of the LGBTQ+ student society at the University of Sussex. It reflects upon the significance of the Society’s name change over time (from GaySoc in the 1970s to its contemporary formation as the LGBTQ+ Society) and considers the role of the Society and its members as an active political and sociable group, concerned with a broad range of political and social justice movements, both on campus and across wider society, locally and nationally. It demonstrates how the experience of student societies relates to individual and group identity and how they help shape national and international politics. It looks at how the groups were positioned as political through their location and in relation to activism beyond LGBTQ+ issues and the University.

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