scholarly journals The Perfect Data-Marriage: Transitional Justice Research and Oral History Life Stories

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-53
Author(s):  
Mina Rauschenbach ◽  
Stef Scagliola ◽  
Stephan Parmentier ◽  
Franciska de Jong
2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082110385
Author(s):  
Kevin Hearty

This article applies a narrative victimological lens of inquiry to the memoirs of those wrongfully convicted of high profile politically violent offences arising from the conflict in the North of Ireland. Using these life stories of wrongful conviction, the article critically examines how nuanced and complex understandings of victimhood and blame emerge from within victims’ own testimony. While on the one hand, victims can ‘story’ victimhood and blame in simplistic ways that echo dominant paradigms found within the criminological literature, at the same time they can ‘story’ victimhood and blame in more sophisticated ways that reflect complex debates found within the transitional justice literature. The ability to take both a more generous approach to victimhood that recognises the harm experienced by others and a more critically self-reflective approach of one's own culpability, it is submitted, shows the potential value that proposed oral history mechanisms have in allowing different perspectives on victimhood and blame to emerge from the testimony of those who suffered harms like wrongful conviction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (89) ◽  
pp. 363-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Reynolds ◽  
Shirleene Robinson

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL MERCHANT

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-standing ambition to record forms of past experience and more recent concerns with narrative and personal ‘composure’. Drawing on extended life story interviews with scientists, recorded by National Life Stories at the British Library between 2011 and 2016, it points to two ways in which the communities might learn from each other. First, engagement with certain theoretical innovations in the discipline of oral history from the 1980s might encourage historians of science to extend their already well-developed critical analysis of written autobiography and biography to interviews with scientists. Second, the keen interest of historians of science in using interviews to reconstruct details of past events and experience might encourage oral historians to continue to value this use of oral history even after their theoretical turn.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-597
Author(s):  
Jiří Trávníček

Abstract This article addresses the topic of reading in the course of life. Its point of departure is the oral-history research carried out between 2009 and 2015 among 138 narrators (informants, respondents, interviewees) across the Czech Republic. The author presents its background, parameters as well as one of its general achievements-four moments of initiations on an axis of our reading life. The first of these takes the form of sociability (being accepted); the second-autonomy (mastering the skill); the third- maturity (being independent), the fourth-reflection (mirroring). What follows from this is the finding that reading undergoes continual development, whether a long continuity or a meandering chain of partial discontinuities. Thus, our oral history-based research shows that being open to the lifetime span provides us with a specific sensitivity towards reading, stressing mainly the fact of its being rooted in particular time-conditioned, life-motivated and purposive situations.


Author(s):  
Linlya Sachs ◽  
Mirian Maria Andrade

Este texto trata sobre atividades de orientação no Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (Pibid), no curso de Licenciatura em Matemática, do câmpus de Cornélio Procópio da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR). Durante os anos letivos de 2016 e 2017, com a orientação de duas duplas de alunos, iniciamos nossos estudos e aproximações metodológicas com a História Oral neste espaço de formação inicial de professores. A proposta tinha como principal objetivo olhar para o professor supervisor dos alunos na escola básica e buscar compreensões sobre como esse professor de matemática se torna o professor de matemática que é. Para isso, foram disparadas algumas leituras e exercícios de escritas com os alunos bolsistas. Os alunos produziram escritas autobiográficas relatando sobre suas histórias de vida, lançando uma reflexão sobre o caminho que levou cada um deles para o curso de Licenciatura em Matemática e o que era para ser apenas um exercício sobre escritas de histórias de vida, tomou outras proporções. Os bolsistas elaboraram, também, roteiros de entrevistas, realizaram entrevistas com os professores supervisores, transcreveram os áudios e textualizaram as transcrições. Todo este processo foi delineado pelos parâmetros da História Oral, conforme nos foi possível compreender e exercitar. Desse modo, pretendemos apresentar como essas escritas autobiográficas podem preparar e, neste caso, permearam as entrevistas com os professores supervisores realizadas posteriormente, possibilitando uma reflexão sobre a mobilização da História Oral no âmbito do Pibid.   Palavras-chave: Formação de Professores· Escritas Autobiográficas· Licenciatura em Matemática· História Oral.   Abstract This paper is related to advising activities in Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (Pibid), in the Undergraduate Course of Mathematics of Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Campus of Cornélio Procópio (UTFPR). During the academic years of 2016 and 2017, we began our studies and methodological approaches with Oral History in initial teacher training with four students. The main purpose was to look at the supervising teacher of students in elementary school and to seek insights on how this mathematics teacher becomes a mathematics teacher he is. In order to do it, some reading and writing exercises were done with the students. They produced autobiographical writings, reporting on their life stories, thinking on the path that led each of them to the Undergraduate Course of Mathematics, and what was meant to be just an exercise in writing life stories, took on other proportions. Students also developed interview scripts, conducted interviews with supervising teachers, transcribed the audios, and textualized the transcripts. All this process was outlined by the parameters of Oral History. In this way, we intend to present how these autobiographical writings can prepare and, in this case, permeated the interviews with the supervisors teachers later realized, allowing a reflection on the mobilization of the Oral History in the scope of the Pibid.   Keywords: Teacher Training· Autobiographical Writings· Undergraduate Course of Mathematics· Oral History.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Olaf Mertelesmann

The period of Stalinism is usually overshadowed by accounts of terror and a topic like leisure seems not to be appropriate. Nevertheless, leisure was an important aspect of everyday life in Estonia under Stalin’s reign. Some elements of continuity with the interwar period might be identified. The state struggled to control leisure activities and to re-educate the population but obviously failed. Listening to foreign radio stations or reading forbidden books might have been subversive but were not yet signs of resistance. Many leisure activities bore the character of escaping from a harsh reality and from poverty. The paper is based on archival documents, oral history and life stories.


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