scholarly journals Examining Supportive Evidence for Psychosocial Theories of Aging within the Oral History Narratives of Centenarians

Societies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Heinz ◽  
Nicholas Cone ◽  
Grace da Rosa ◽  
Alex Bishop ◽  
Tanya Finchum
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Supportive Evidence ◽  
Theories Of Aging ◽  
History Narratives

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'.

Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life

Hot Metal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Space Architecture

This chapter recovers the architectural and spatial qualities of so-called ‘ordinary’ factory buildings. Focusing on the modern building that housed the Gov, it explores spatial and architectural memory through an integration of archival research, oral testimony and photographs. This examination is informed by an awareness of how the oral history process contributes to a co-construction of spatial memory, developing between the interviewee and interviewer. Focusing on the built heritage of an industrial site can tell us only limited things about labour, technology and working life, and without oral history narratives, archives and photographs, the remnant built heritage can be historically misleading. Given this book’s broad argument that one can do both – that is, explore material and embodied histories and human stories of working life – it is necessary to consider closely the physical and spatial environment in which the print-workers laboured. This chapter is about those matters of place, space, architecture and embodied experience.

Differences in Workers' Narratives of Contention in Two Central Indian Towns

2011 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjusha Nair
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Central India ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Contract Work ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Maoist Movement

AbstractContract work in India, though legally regulated by a 1970 Act, is widespread and mostly unrecognized. With the implementation of neoliberal policies in India since the 1990s, contract work has become the norm. There are now few spaces in which contract workers can get redress through the legal system. Using oral history narratives of contract workers' participation in a labor movement, this article shows how narratives of contention differ in the rendering of agency, success, and future, between one group of contract workers employed in the 1970s in a state-owned mine and another employed in the 1990s in an industrial area owned by private and foreign capital. The evidence for the article is ethnographic, collected in Chhattisgarh region in central India. This article suggests that these workers' narratives show the transformation in practices of citizenship, resistance, and militancy in India over time. Such differences are essential in understanding phenomena like the resurgence of the Maoist movement in Chhattisgarh.

scholarly journals Oral history as a tool of legal analysis: women in the margins of Israeli society

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
Shimrit Lee
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Law ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Legal Attitudes ◽  
Development And Evolution

Researchers in the field of legal consciousness have traditionally relied on surveys, ethnographies, or in-depth interviews to gauge the ways in which individuals engage, avoid, or resist the law. This paper explores how oral history is able to enrich the study of legal consciousness in ways inaccessible to other methodologies. Oral history offers an intertemporal perspective, allowing researchers to trace the development and evolution of legal attitudes and interactions over time. To illustrate the unique function of oral history, I examine the oral history narratives of three Palestinian-Israeli women as they relate their experience with the law over the course of their lifetime. I suggest that combining the oral history technique with the more targeted approach of in-depth interviewing can most aptly capture individual legal consciousness. Research through oral history can further be used in the field of critical legal theory by drawing attention to collective historical grievances of marginalised groups.

Negotiating ungovernable spaces between the personal and the political: Oral history and the left in post-war Britain

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Post War ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Oral History Interviews

In this article, I consider the value and challenges of using oral history interviews to access and interpret narrative memories of men and women who became active in the left network around Britain’s anti-war movement, the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. I focus in-depth on the individual stories of one man and one woman who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, joined far left Trotskyist organisations. The stories reveal a two-fold search for past revolutionary and current selves. Reading between the shifting layers of past and present, the article will explore what deeper insights interviewing offers into the complex ways in which activists shaped subjectivities both in their far left groups and in the interview itself. It engages with the concept of inter-subjectivity to reflect on the interpersonal relationship between interviewer and interviewee in the oral history encounter. It thus considers the meeting of particular subjectivities and the role they played in shaping the oral history narratives. Through careful attention to my own internal state at the time of interviewing, and to how the interviewees’ stories made me feel, I seek to understand unconsidered political, social and emotional gendered experiences of life on the British far left around 1968.

scholarly journals Nimble Nationalism: Transgenerational Experiences of East Karelian Refugees in Finland and Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-293
Author(s):  
Seija Jalagin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World War ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractLooking at the relationship of experiences and memory Jalagin discusses the significance of the nation for a minority of a minority. Focusing on Soviet Karelian refugees who sought asylum first in interwar Finland and then in post-World War II Sweden, the chapter explores family histories as presented by government authorities in archival documents as well as in written and oral history narratives. Jalagin argues that the nation-state dominated the national experience because the refugees were meticulously controlled by government immigration policies and practices. While considering Sweden their home country, the refugees emotionally tended to identify with the Finnish migrant community in Sweden. Their sense of Finnishness testifies to flexible nationalism, making the nation-state an ambivalent, yet important element in their life.

scholarly journals Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Narratives

The paper intends to study the figure of the refugee in post-Partition West Bengal by critically examining the oral history narratives of individuals who migrated from East Pakistan in the wake of the 1947 Partition. It underscores the value and relevance of narrativity in the representation of factual history, the motivation and manifestation of which make history subjective, interpretive and contingent on the refugee’s narrative. The narrative act presents the refugees’ transition from, what may be called, figurative to socio-material subjects who interrupt and derange the nationalising exercise of the nation-state. The multivalent understanding of refugees makes the nation-state suffer from an anxiety of incompleteness (Appadurai 2006). The paper extends the idea of incompleteness by showing that however much the nation-state attempts to frame a particular brand of nationalism, variants of ethnocultural nationalism do exist, demonstrating the diverse subjectivities embodied by the refugees/narrators. Such ethnocultural nationalism can be read as alternative forms of self-assertion deeply etched in the social memory of the refugees.

Emotions and gender in oral history: narrating Italy's 1968

Modern Italy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
New Left ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
And Gender ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
The Third Person

The year 1968 was and remains an emotion-laden topic in Italy, and yet few historians have used emotions to parse the history and memory of this period. This paper draws on a collection of interviews with former activists in the student movement and the New Left to explore the ways in which expressions of feeling in life-history narratives can flag up possible lines of difference in women's and men's stories. It draws on three emotive themes – rebellion, violence and liberation – to explore the interaction between gender, feeling, narrative, and what the author calls the ‘third person in the room’: meta-narratives of 1960s activism that can exert a powerful weight on the interview, blending and blurring the lines of individual and collective experience.

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