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>

Forging Germans under Germany

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-162
Author(s):  
Caroline Mezger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World War ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Minority Leadership ◽  
German Children ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The Church ◽  
Wartime Experience

Chapter 3 is dedicated to the German occupation of the Western Banat during World War II. Employing archival and press sources from Germany and Serbia, as well as original oral history interviews, it explores the interplay between Reich-German and local Donauschwaben authorities in shaping institutions that would profoundly affect ethnic German children and young people’s wartime experience and conceptualizations of “Germanness”: the National Socialist Volksgruppenführung (minority leadership), the German-language school, and the Church. As the chapter shows, experiences of violence, the Nazi takeover of virtually all local ethnic German organizations, and the disappearance of any official religious alternatives caused an at least public equation of “German” with “National Socialist”—a definition which would be promoted, ignored, and resisted by individual youth.

Men in reserve

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Pattinson ◽  
Arthur McIvor ◽  
Linsey Robb
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Military Masculinity ◽  
Second World ◽  
Male Workers

This book focuses on working class civilian men who as a result of working in reserved occupations were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It utilises fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how they articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to which reserved workers draw upon these identities when recalling their wartime selves. It argues that the Second World War was capable of challenging civilian masculinities, positioning the civilian man below that of the ‘soldier hero’ while, simultaneously, reinforcing them by bolstering the capacity to provide and to earn high wages, both of which were key markers of masculinity.

scholarly journals The Troubled Pasts of Hungarian and German Minorities in Slovakia and Their Representation in Museums

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Tereza Juhászová
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
World War ◽  
Memorial Museums ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Historical Past

Abstract In the 20th century, the two world wars reshaped the map of Central Europe as well as the status of Central Europe’s diverse societies. In my article, I focus on the Hungarian and German minorities in Slovakia and the representation of their problematic historical past in contemporary Slovak museums. More specifically, I zoom in on the exhibition Exchanged Homes displayed in Bratislava, which aims to commemorate the fate of Hungarians, Germans, and Slovaks, all of whom were affected by the population transfers after World War II. Based on the concept of memorial museums theorized by Paul Williams, I aim to show how the different exhibitions engage with the traumatic past of forceful resettlement. By offering multifaceted memories of a troubled past, these exhibitions avoid categorizing “victims” and “perpetrators” along national or ethnic lines. My paper thus analyzes the concepts and components of the exhibitions—the context of the postwar events, oral history interviews, and objects of everyday use that should bring the visitor closer to the experience of the people who were forced to leave. I argue that exhibitions of this sort have the ability to challenge the dominant historical narrative focusing on a national “Slovak” history and help the process of reconciliation between the Slovak majority society, and the Hungarian and German minorities.

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