scholarly journals Mediated Storytelling Practices and Productions: Archival Bodies of Affective Evidences

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Jamie A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Queer Archives ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
Video Abstract

Video abstract Through hands-on work collecting digital video oral histories for the Arizona Queer Archives, bodies and bodies of knowledge in ongoing affective states of simultaneous becoming and unbecoming can be observed and encountered. Both interviewing and storytelling techniques in select oral histories are considered here to stress the salient and affective processes of mediation and (un)becoming that unfold in front of and behind the camera as part of the production of digital archival stories and subsequent access to streaming technologies. In order to explore the details of archival production, the oral history interview is understood here as a space of both intimate and public storytelling—an affective assemblage. This paper introduces archives as affective multimodalities that work to tenderly hold and structure bodies, technologies, and stories especially as these come together and apart in states of (un)becoming.

The visual at work: oral history and institutional photographs

Hot Metal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
Workplace Practices ◽  
Oral History Interview

This chapter explores the complex interplay of memory and meaning that emerges when using oral histories and institutional photographs, in the interview itself and in the stages of interpretation. It engages with existing discourse in oral history, particularly in relation to the links between oral testimony and visual stimuli. In doing so, it broadens existing discussions in oral history to include the use of institutional photographs in the interview process, rather than personal or family images (which has often been the focus of previous research in this area). While institutional photographs do not necessarily show the ‘reality’ of workplace practices, such images can reveal some of the ways that institutions sought to represent themselves officially. The use of institutional photographs during the oral history interview can provide insights into the disjuncture between bureaucratic representations of an organisation and former employees’ detailed recollections of tangible details related to their working lives.

Third Wave Feminist Analysis of a Second Wave Feminist's Art

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Zenovich ◽  
Shane T. Moreman
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Feminist Art ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Second Wave

A third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history, this research essay blends both the visual and the oral as text. We critique a feminist artist's art along with her words so that her representation can be seen and heard. Focusing on three art pieces, we analyze the artist's body to conceptualize agentic ways to understand the meanings of feminist art and feminist oral history. We offer a third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history as method so that feminists can consider adaptive means for recording oral histories and challenging dominant symbolic order.

THE KHOREZM SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND ORAL HISTORICAL RESEARCHES OF OTAMISH HODJA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Ziyovutdin Ilkhomov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Scientific School

The article analyzes the features of the historian Otamish Hodja's writing of Chingiznoma and the author's extensive use of oral histories in writing the work. The oral history issues in this source and the author's approaches have not been analyzed to date

Case Study: Memory Work with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Denis
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Story Work ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article focuses on working with children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Arica. In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, relief organizations focused their efforts on the material needs of children, but their psychological and emotional needs are no less important. Recognizing this, the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa, a research and community development center located at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Pietermaritzburg South Africa, has pioneered a model of psychosocial intervention for children in grief—particularly but not exclusively in the context of HIV/AIDS. This model uses the methodology of oral history in a novel manner, combined with other techniques such as life story work and narrative therapy. During the early years of the project, the model followed for the family visits was the oral history interview. A discussion on caregiver as the narrator and skills required in memory work especially in these cases concludes this article.

In Their Own Words: Susan Stafford

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
James M Verdier
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
American Institute ◽  
The University

Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This fourth oral history is with Dr. Susan Stafford, professor and dean emerita at the University of Minnesota. She previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.

Socialist Modernisation in Mongolia as Narrated after Socialism

Inner Asia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Konagaya
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
History Narratives

AbstractIn this article I introduce our collection of oral histories composed of life histories recorded between 2001 and 2006. First, I discuss some devices implemented in the process of collecting life histories, which was to make oral histories 'polyphonic'. I then suggest that oral history always has a 'dual' tense, in that people talk about 'the past' from the view point of 'the present'. This is illustrated by six cases of statesmen narrating their views about socialist modernisation. Finally, using one of the cases, I demonstrate the co-existence of non-official or private opinions along with official opinions about the socialist period in life-history narratives in the post-socialist period. I call this 'ex-post value'.

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