scholarly journals Kommunikative Gedächtnisse als Quellen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Memory Studies in unterdokumentierten historischen Kontexten am Beispiel des Familiengedächtnisses

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Lisa Haberkern
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Memory Studies

W artykule omówiono wnioski z badań, których celem było zrekonstruowanie pamięci o pobycie osób osadzonych w powojennych tzw. obozach pracy na Górnym Śląsku na podstawie relacji członków ich rodzin. Analizowany materiał dotyczy obozu pracy Zgoda w Świętochłowicach, którego historia jest dobrze udokumentowana. Autorka skoncentrowała się na ograniczeniach, jakie napotyka historyk podczas badań bazujących na źródłach typu oral history. Zjawisko istnienia różnic w pamięci zbiorowej jest znane, ale ważna jest nie tylko świadomość tego faktu, lecz także wykorzystanie go w badaniach historycznych. By odtwarzać fakty z przeszłości zapisane w pamięci jednostki, najpierw trzeba zrekonstruować sposób jej patrzenia na przeszłość, uwzględniając miejsce i czas historyczny. Pamięć jest zbyt zawodna i podlega zbyt wielu zmianom, żeby można było bezkrytycznie przyjmować wydobyty z niej przekaz dotyczący minionych wydarzeń. Ustalanie faktów dziejowych na podstawie oral history musi wobec tego zawsze poprzedzać rekonstrukcja kontekstów historycznych, w jakich kształtowała się pamięć o nich.

Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander ◽  
Sofia Laine ◽  
Päivi Salmesvuori ◽  
Ulla Savolainen ◽  
Riikka Taavetti
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Legal Processes

This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memories. The contemporary and history-oriented case studies discuss politicized memories and pasts, the frictions of justice and reconciliation, and the diversity and fragmentation of difficult memories. The collection brings together methodological discussions from oral history research, cultural memory studies and the study of contemporary protest movements. The politicization of memories is analyzed in various contexts, ranging from everyday interaction and diverse cultural representations to politics of the archive and politics as legal processes. The politicization of memories takes place on multiple analytical levels: those inherent to the sources; the ways in which the collections are utilized, archived, or presented; and in the re-evaluation of existing research.

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.

scholarly journals Memory and history in twenty-first century Australia: A survey of the field

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Darian-Smith ◽  
Paula Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Twenty First Century

This essay surveys the fields of oral history and memory studies in Australia since the publication of the landmark volume Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia in 1994. It argues that the practice of oral history has been central to memory studies in Australia, and explores key texts relating to the memory and commemoration of war, colonialism, Indigenous histories, trauma and witnessing in Australian society.

scholarly journals “EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE”: EMOTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST AMONG FORMER PORTUGUESE ANTIFASCIST ACTIVISTS*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-453
Author(s):  
Guya Accornero
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
Consolidated Democracy

In this article, I analyze how former activists opposed to Estado Novo, Portugal's fascist regime, see their past, as well as the emotions and perceptions associated with it. I argue that what Antonio Costa Pinto called a “double legacy” shapes these activists' process of remembering. This means that the legacies of dictatorship in Portugal's consolidated democracy are strongly shaped by how it ended and by how democracy was implemented in the country—that is, through a revolution and a radical “cut with the past.” I use semistructured interviews and open questionnaires to study how former activists are affected by and contribute to building this double legacy. By adopting an interactionist perspective and by bridging the scholarship on transition and oral history, this research aims to strengthen the dialogue between social movement and memory studies, and also stresses the relevance of the co-construction of individual and collective memory.

scholarly journals Olga Bechara's practices in the Secondary Experimental Classes at Socorro (1959-1962)

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-150
Author(s):  
Norberto Dallabrida ◽  
Tânia Regina da Rocha Unglaub ◽  
Michelli da Silva Costa
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The City ◽  
Math Teacher

This article aims to analyse the practices of Olga Bechara in the Secondary Experimental Classes at Instituto Narciso Pieroni, located in the city of Socorro, from 1959 to 1962. During this educational experience, Olga Bechara worked as a Math teacher and Pedagogical Guidance Assistant. As a Math teacher, she made use of dynamic teaching methods and innovative pedagogical practices. As a Pedagogical Guidance Assistant, she was responsible forapplying the Sociogram technique with the Secondary Experimental Classes. In order to analyse Olga Bechara’s experience with the Secondary Experimental Classes in Socorro, theoretical and methodological assumptions of Oral History and Memory Studies were used.

scholarly journals Opportunities of Social Networking Services (SNS) For Educational and Scientific Purposes: Multimedia Project “Family Memory of the Soviet Past”

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 5173-5177
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Video Library

The article shows the technology and some results of the multimedia research educational project "Family memory of the Soviet past", which operates in the Russian social network “VKontakte” for students of cultural studies in the Russian State Social University. The project is based on the research traditions "memory studies" and "oral history", it is carried out within the framework of the discipline "Applied cultural studies". During the network project, a digital archive of interviews transcripts with memories of the Soviet past is collected; as well as a photo archive; a library; a video library; an electronic thematic communication platform and a news section are organized. In the process of the "Family memory of the Soviet past" project educational and scientific opportunities of the social network service VKontakte were identified and developed. Methodological foundations were developed, and the technology of international multimedia scientific and educational project was tested in the framework of future culturologists training. The article analyzes the educational and scientific possibilities of the project. It is the realization of practical component in humanitarian education; group work; involving the scientific search operations and prospects of carrying out international empirical studies in the post-soviet space. The article presents some scientific results and prospects of the project on the analysis of transcripts, photographs, organization of digital archives, discussions. The risks of using social media in the educational process and scientific activities of students (for example, blurring the boundary between private and academic space) are identified and ways to overcome them are outlined. The article shows how Learning Management System (LMS) of University – can be supplemented with educational and scientific capabilities of social networking service (also social networking site – SNS). The results of this article can be used in similar humanitarian research and educational projects on oral history and memory studies.

scholarly journals Between Old Traditions and New Approaches: Locating Oral History and Memory Studies in East Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
East Central ◽  
History Of

Abstract The article explores how oral history and memory studies have been used in East Central Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. It focuses particularly on the question of whether Eastern European scholars only reproduce what was invented in the West, or whether they advance their original concepts and ideas. Both disciplines have been involved in reassessing the history of communism and the communist version of history itself and both contributed to revealing memoires obscured by the communist regime, even if the role of oral history may be considered as pivotal in this process. Although oral history had been practiced in the region at least since the 1970s, it was introduced as a new discipline according to the Western criteria after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Memory studies and their most successful concept, the “lieux de mémoire”, were implemented into to the region later and the promoters of the concept were predominantly Western scholars. Drawing on the uses of the term “historical consciousness” in Czech and Polish research, the article argues that various strategies associated with the “return to Europe” can be found in the region when promoting native traditions and equalizing them with the Western ones.

scholarly journals „Słuchajcie, co wam teraz powiem…”, Obsługiwałem angielskiego króla Bohumila Hrabala – fikcja literacka a „historia opowiadana”

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 73-100
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Uczkiewicz-Styś
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Natural Object ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The World

Oral history accounts area natural object of research for anthropologists, sociologists, researchers of cultural studies, ethnologists, as well as psychologists engaged in memory studies. As narratives of experience they became the antipositivist rebellion against the monopoly of major historical narratives that, according to the reflection of the second half of the 20th century, were supposed to lead to the catastrophes of war and genocide.  In historiographic research the questioned positivist discourse based on the corresponding theory of the truth has become counterbalanced by the discourse of memory. As a consequence, also in historical research there is noticeable appreciation for other, non-classic, forms of historical narratives which include oral history accounts.  What can a researcher of literary fiction contribute to reflections on oral history whose greatest value should be authenticity, this “truth of experience”? To what extent can literary texts in the convention of a narrative of appeal, first-person narrative, monologue (in which crucial roles are played by dialogue, orality and rhetoric of the text) be read in the perspective of oral history?  When analyzing I Served the King of England novel by Bohumil Hrabal – author who by default rejects ‘the macrocosm’, the world of great politics, historical necessities, social processes, for the world of microcosm, i.e. a life of each person and what is more, he rejects any need for psychological or sociological (or any other) analysis of this microcosm – one can notice that the dichotomy of literary fiction and the authentic experience of oral history is not that obvious as it may seem. Categories of text, narration and memory, although analyzed from different research perspectives, are common for both forms. 

Autobiographies of a generation? Carolyn Steedman, Luisa Passerini and the memory of 1968

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Maslen
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Woman ◽  
Radical Generation ◽  
Carolyn Steedman

The meeting-point between memory studies and auto/biographical studies provides new perspectives on the study of the radical generation of 1968 through life-writing techniques, including oral history. A comparison between Carolyn Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, published in 1986, and Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, published in 1988, suggests that belonging to this generation involves tensions between the social master narrative of 1968 and auto/biographical memories. Steedman and Passerini’s personal narratives relate in complex ways to this master narrative, and exploring these ambiguities helps us to generate further innovation in ‘generational thinking’ as well as a comparative understanding of the ‘memory studies’ of two of the most important thinkers in British and Italian contemporary history.

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