scholarly journals Why Family Memories and Stories Matter

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Green
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Multigenerational Families ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Funded Research Project

Comparatively little is known about the content and form of family memory among Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent) in contrast to the centrality of whakapapa/genealogy in mātauranga Māori. To address this lacuna, the Marsden-funded research project “The Missing Link” recorded oral history interviews with sixty multigenerational families descended from European migrants who arrived in New Zealand before 1914. We asked our participants what they knew about their family past, the stories that had been passed down, and why particular ancestors interested them. The analysis of these oral history interviews is in progress. This article focuses on the decision to employ a mixed methods research methodology, including an analytical conceptual framework drawn from memory studies, and draws some preliminary conclusions regarding the Pākehā family as a mnemonic community.

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.

scholarly journals Humanitarian, International Nursing and the New Zealand and Recipients of the Florence Nightingale Medal 1920-1999

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jill Caughley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
International Nursing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews

<p>The purpose of this study was to explore the history of the Florence Nightingale Medal and in particular its New Zealand recipients. New Zealand nurses have, over many years, contributed to international nursing by providing service during conflicts and disasters. Several have worked with the Red Cross and, of these nurses, twenty-two have been awarded its highest honour, the Florence Nightingale Medal. This thesis related the history of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and its place in humanitarian and international nursing. It traces New Zealand nursing's involvement in this, and offers a history of the New Zealand recipients of the Florence Nightingale Medal, 1920-1999. The personal and professional stories of five New Zealand nurses who were awarded the medal between 1969 and 1999 were gathered through oral history interviews. Their stories are used to consider in more detail the motivations and experiences of nurses who work in these circumstances, and the way in which humanitarian nursing practice and Red Cross principles shaped and challenged their practice. The thesis therefore documents the work of five New Zealand nurses who have demonstrated exceptional courage, dedication, and commitment to humanitarian causes and international nursing practice. As an exploratory and descriptive study which has drawn on both historical and contemporary sources of information, it raises awareness about the Red Cross and its nurses, humanitarian nursing practice in particular, and international nursing in general.</p>

scholarly journals ‘A Man’s Environment’? The Petone Workingmen’s Club and Masculinity in New Zealand after 1945

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicola Braid
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Men's Experience ◽  
Work Class

<p>My thesis, in the broadest terms, looks at New Zealand men’s understanding of themselves and their work. My study is based on oral history interviews with male members of the Petone Workingmen’s Club in Lower Hutt, Wellington. This thesis has two purposes: to compare men’s experiences with wider understandings of class, work and masculinity in New Zealand during the post-World War II period, and to complicate the assumptions about masculinity that have gone somewhat unexplored in historiography.  This study takes a thematic approach to men’s experience, but weaves elements of oral history and historiography throughout. Chapter three looks at the Petone Workingmen’s Club as a masculine and working-class space; while Chapter four continues to examine men’s memories and masculinities, this time in the context of an interview. Finally, Chapter five observes the place of education, leisure, and particularly work, in men’s narratives to add greater depth to histories of work, class and masculinity in New Zealand.  My interviews found that studies of New Zealand men have neglected the role that class, gender and historical changes have had in affecting men’s understanding of themselves and their lives. This thesis hopes to complicate, as well as add value to, the limited scholarship that exists surrounding masculinity in New Zealand, particularly among working-class men.</p>

scholarly journals ‘A Man’s Environment’? The Petone Workingmen’s Club and Masculinity in New Zealand after 1945

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicola Braid
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Men's Experience ◽  
Work Class

<p>My thesis, in the broadest terms, looks at New Zealand men’s understanding of themselves and their work. My study is based on oral history interviews with male members of the Petone Workingmen’s Club in Lower Hutt, Wellington. This thesis has two purposes: to compare men’s experiences with wider understandings of class, work and masculinity in New Zealand during the post-World War II period, and to complicate the assumptions about masculinity that have gone somewhat unexplored in historiography.  This study takes a thematic approach to men’s experience, but weaves elements of oral history and historiography throughout. Chapter three looks at the Petone Workingmen’s Club as a masculine and working-class space; while Chapter four continues to examine men’s memories and masculinities, this time in the context of an interview. Finally, Chapter five observes the place of education, leisure, and particularly work, in men’s narratives to add greater depth to histories of work, class and masculinity in New Zealand.  My interviews found that studies of New Zealand men have neglected the role that class, gender and historical changes have had in affecting men’s understanding of themselves and their lives. This thesis hopes to complicate, as well as add value to, the limited scholarship that exists surrounding masculinity in New Zealand, particularly among working-class men.</p>

scholarly journals Humanitarian, International Nursing and the New Zealand and Recipients of the Florence Nightingale Medal 1920-1999

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jill Caughley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
International Nursing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews

<p>The purpose of this study was to explore the history of the Florence Nightingale Medal and in particular its New Zealand recipients. New Zealand nurses have, over many years, contributed to international nursing by providing service during conflicts and disasters. Several have worked with the Red Cross and, of these nurses, twenty-two have been awarded its highest honour, the Florence Nightingale Medal. This thesis related the history of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and its place in humanitarian and international nursing. It traces New Zealand nursing's involvement in this, and offers a history of the New Zealand recipients of the Florence Nightingale Medal, 1920-1999. The personal and professional stories of five New Zealand nurses who were awarded the medal between 1969 and 1999 were gathered through oral history interviews. Their stories are used to consider in more detail the motivations and experiences of nurses who work in these circumstances, and the way in which humanitarian nursing practice and Red Cross principles shaped and challenged their practice. The thesis therefore documents the work of five New Zealand nurses who have demonstrated exceptional courage, dedication, and commitment to humanitarian causes and international nursing practice. As an exploratory and descriptive study which has drawn on both historical and contemporary sources of information, it raises awareness about the Red Cross and its nurses, humanitarian nursing practice in particular, and international nursing in general.</p>

scholarly journals New Zealand Architects Abroad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
University Archives ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This thesis is an oral history based investigation of four recently graduated architects (Bill Alington, Maurice Smith, Bill Toomath and Harry Turbott) who individually left New Zealand to pursue postgraduate qualifications at United States universities in the immediate postwar period. Guided interviews were conducted to allow the architects to talk about these experiences within the broader context of their careers. The interviews probed their motivations for travelling and studying in the United States. Where possible archival material was also sought (Fulbright applications, university archives) for comparison with the spoken narratives.   Although motivated by the search of modernity and the chance to meet the master architects of the period (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wright) what all gained was an increase in the confidence of their own abilities as architects (or as a landscape architect in the case of Turbott who switched his focus while in the United States). This increase in confidence partly came from realising that their architectural heroes were ordinary people. Although searching for modernity, their encounters with the canon of architectural history also had a profound effect. This detailed knowledge of what these four subjects felt about architecture, architectural education, and their experiences of studying, working, and touring abroad has helped to shed light on the development of and influences on postwar architecture in New Zealand.   The series of oral history interviews that were recorded during this project not only form the basis of the research material for this thesis, but are, in their own right, a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of New Zealand’s postwar architectural history.</p>

Family memory, ‘things’ and counterfactual thinking

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Green ◽  
Kayleigh Luscombe
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Counterfactual Thinking ◽  
Multigenerational Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Identities ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The Relationship

Contemporary research into the relationship between material culture and the formation of personal and family identities has emphasized the idealized symbolic role of inherited objects and ‘things’. In the following research, oral history interviews were recorded with 12 multigenerational families in Devon and Cornwall about memories and stories from the family’s past. Within this oral history cohort, the eldest member in four families identified objects that did not fit the model of positive, affective resonance. These material things symbolized a calamitous or difficult key turning point in family history and generated counterfactual thinking about the family trajectory over time. In this form of family memory, personal identities could be grounded in the lives of earlier generations prior to the pivotal event.

scholarly journals My Body, My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fairleigh Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Sex work is often a topic of lively debate, both in academic and public settings, with discussions around morality, laws and exploitation often creating a noisy discursive space. What is often missing in these discussions is the voices of sex workers themselves, particularly such a diverse range of voices as those found in Caren Wilton’s collection, My Body, My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change. This book is a collection of eleven life stories from current and former sex workers in New Zealand, based on a series of oral history interviews conducted by Wilton (an oral historian) between 2009 and 2018, framed by simple yet evocative photographs taken by Madeleine Slavick.

scholarly journals Sites of violence and their communities: Critical memory studies in the post-human era (Kraków, 24–25 September 2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Szczepan
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
History Education ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
International Debate ◽  
International Group ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Right

This discussion gathers voices of an international group of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines and institutions who focus on diverse aspects of sites of past violence in their work: archaeology, history, ethics, literature and art, curatorial practices, oral history, education and commemoration. The debate, which took place during the conference “Sites of Violence and Their Communities: Critical Memory Studies in the Post-Human Era” in Kraków in September 2019, itself centres on six main topics: the question of archives of uncommemorated killing sites; research methodology; the position of the researchers themselves; the problem of complicity during conflict and the right to be a witness to past crimes; the place of the Righteous Among the Nations within Polish collective memory and the international debate on the Holocaust; and, finally, new ways of commemoration and education about mass violence. Participants: Katarzyna Bojarska, Michał Chojak, Ewa Domańska, Zuzanna Dziuban, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Aleksandra Janus, Karina Jarzyńska, Maria Kobielska, Rob van der Laarse, Bryce Lease, Erica Lehrer, Jacek Leociak, Tomasz Łysak, Tomasz Majkowski, Christina Morina, Matilda Mroz, Adam Musiał, Agnieszka Nieradko, Łukasz Posłuszny, Roma Sendyka, Caroline Sturdy Colls, Katarzyna Suszkiewicz, Aleksandra Szczepan, Krijn Thijs, Jonathan Webber, Anna Zagrodzka, Tomasz Żukowski

scholarly journals New Zealand Architects Abroad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
University Archives ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This thesis is an oral history based investigation of four recently graduated architects (Bill Alington, Maurice Smith, Bill Toomath and Harry Turbott) who individually left New Zealand to pursue postgraduate qualifications at United States universities in the immediate postwar period. Guided interviews were conducted to allow the architects to talk about these experiences within the broader context of their careers. The interviews probed their motivations for travelling and studying in the United States. Where possible archival material was also sought (Fulbright applications, university archives) for comparison with the spoken narratives.   Although motivated by the search of modernity and the chance to meet the master architects of the period (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wright) what all gained was an increase in the confidence of their own abilities as architects (or as a landscape architect in the case of Turbott who switched his focus while in the United States). This increase in confidence partly came from realising that their architectural heroes were ordinary people. Although searching for modernity, their encounters with the canon of architectural history also had a profound effect. This detailed knowledge of what these four subjects felt about architecture, architectural education, and their experiences of studying, working, and touring abroad has helped to shed light on the development of and influences on postwar architecture in New Zealand.   The series of oral history interviews that were recorded during this project not only form the basis of the research material for this thesis, but are, in their own right, a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of New Zealand’s postwar architectural history.</p>

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