scholarly journals Revolucionarios, internacionalistas y sobrevivientes. Una historia oral de la Revolución cubana.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar López-Acón
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
America Latina

La Revolución cubana constituye probablemente el hecho más influyente en la historia contemporánea de América Latina por su alcance y significado. Todavía hoy, los ecos de aquel acontecimiento se proyectan sobremanera en el presente y los numerosos interrogantes que sigue generando lo convierten en un terreno extraordinariamente fértil para su estudio. En el presente artículo queremos explorar las potencialidades que ofrece la historia oral para tal fin. Para ello, nos servimos de las historias de vida de algunos sujetos que tuvieron experiencia directa o participaron del acontecer político y social de Cuba desde la década de los cincuenta hasta el presente en distintos escenarios. El rescate de sus voces nos permite acercarnos a la experiencia vivida de la Revolución y nos ayuda a comprender el significado mismo de ese proceso histórico. The Cuban Revolution constitute probably the most influential event in the contemporary history of Latin America due to its scope and significance. Even today, the echoes of that historical event are projected greatly in the present and the numerous of unanswered questions that still generate turn into extraordinary field to this study. In the present article we want to explore the potentialities what the oral history can offer us to reach that objective. In order to dive into this issue we shall focus in the life stories of some person who had direct experience or taken part in political and social happen in Cuba, from fifties decade to the present in a different scenes. The rescue of their voices allows us to approach the “lived experience” of the Revolution and helps us to know the very meaning of that historical process.

scholarly journals The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? A Look Into the Anti-Homosexuality Culture of Jamaica

Perceptions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Effi Booth
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Western World ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Degree Of Acceptance ◽  
Scholarly Data ◽  
The Individual

This paper was presented in History 3697, fall semester, 2017, a mid-level required writing course designed to link the methods of oral history with the study of issues in the contemporary history of the non-western world. The issue for all of us in this course was social change in recent times. I chose to examine the degree of acceptance of gays in Jamaica, in an era of great change in sexual mores throughout the world. I read the literature; I interviewed Julian, a recent immigrant from Jamaica, and I drew conclusions based on integrating the scholarly material with the interview revelations. The findings were important both for understanding (the lack of) change in sexual attitudes in Jamaica, and the importance of analysis of the individual and the collective together, of the interview and the scholarly data examined together. The individual, at least my interviewee, and the society, are currently resistant to change. The main conclusion: changes in sexual mores in other areas of the world are taking place at rates very different from, and, specifically in Jamaica, at rates much slower than, those in the USA.

scholarly journals Contemporary History of Indonesia between Historical Truth and Group Purpose

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Anzar Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Made In ◽  
Discussion Topic

<p>Contemporary history is the very latest history at which the historic event traces are close and still encountered by us at the present day. As a just away event which seems still exists, it becomes controversial about when the historical event is actually called contemporary. Characteristic of contemporary history genre is complexity of an event and its interpretation. For cases in Indonesia, contemporary history usually begins from 1945. It is so because not only all documents, files and other primary sources have not been uncovered and learned by public yet where historical reconstruction can be made in a whole, but also a fact that some historical figures and persons are still alive. This last point summons protracted historical debate when there are some collective or personal memories and political consideration and present power. The historical facts are often provided to please one side, while disagreeable fact is often hidden from other side. The article aims to discuss some subject matter of contemporary history in Indonesia as they are printed in history textbook for school, along with varies issues. The article will make correction about context of some issues that they actually used as discussion topic among teachers of history. In the last part of this article, it will outline on how we respond to contemporary history of Indonesia. Conclusion is made that in context of contemporary history in Indonesia, it found two interests, i.e. for historical truth and group purpose.</p>

Beirut e la guerra: Elias Khuri e Oriana Fallaci

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 255-275
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Jaran
Keyword(s):  
Historical Event ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assimilation Process ◽  
The City ◽  
Beautiful City

“Switzerland of the Middle East” and “the oriental Paris” are some of the names that the beautiful city of Beirut had earned before the disasters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). This historical event is considered the most important one in the contemporary history of Lebanon, not only because it marks the end of a difficult peaceful coexistence among the various ethnic and religious groups during the period between the Independence (1943) and the beginning of the conflict (1975), but also because it made radical geopolitical changes to the entire region. At the end of the “Swiss epoque”, the city of Beirut begins to undergo a series of transformations in terms of urban planning, landscape, etc. This paper aims to study the literary representation of Beirut during the conflict, taking as examples two authors, one Lebanese, Elias Khuri, who shows, in his novel The Journey of Little Gandhi, the irrationality of war and its effects on the city and on the inhabitants; the other one is the Italian writer, Oriana Fallaci, who describes in his novel Inshallah the experience of the Italian contingent in the peacekeeping mission in Beirut. Despite the considerable differences between the two authors, the papers shows the narratives’ affinity which highlight the transformation of Beirut, the image of its citizens and the problematic of the assimilation process between them and their city.

scholarly journals Recent books on Inuit oral history. ALUNIK, Ishmael, Eddie D. KOLAUSOK and David MORRISON, 2003 Across Time and Tundra. The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic, Vancouver, Raincoast, Seattle, University of Washington Press, Gatineau, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 230 pages. BENNETT, John and Susan ROWLEY (compilers and editors), 2004 Uqalurait. An Oral History of Nunavut, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press. 473 pages. BROWER, Harry, Sr., 2004 The Whales, They Give Themselves. Conversations with Harry Brower, Sr., edited by Karen Brewster, Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, Oral Biography Series, 4, 232 pages. OKPIK, Abraham, 2005 We Call It Survival. The Life Story of Abraham Okpik, edited by Louis McComber, Iqaluit, Nunavut Arctic College, Life Stories of Northern Leaders Series, 1, 384 pages. PANEAK, Simon, 2004 In a Hungry Country. Essays by Simon Paneak, edited by John Martin Campbell with contributions by Grant Spearman, Robert L. Rausch and Stephen C. Porter, Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, 125 pages. PINSON, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 2004 Alaska’s Daughter. An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century, Logan, Utah State University Press, 212 pages.

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Murielle Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
State University ◽  
Utah State University ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
College Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Arctic

Contemporary History of Medicine and Health

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Berridge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Health History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This article argues that the contemporary history of health and medicine presents some particular challenges, however, for the nature of historians' involvement in the object of their study and for their relationships with other disciplines and with the field of policy. It gives an overview of histories that encompass the nineteenth and twentieth century. Those that focus exclusively on the post-war years mostly deal with welfare, and the other one focuses on health. Oral history has continued to be a key resource for contemporary history. The methodology of elite oral history in contemporary health history is also analysed. It has implications for relationships between the researcher and those being researched. This article also discusses the role of ethical review for the contemporary history of health.

scholarly journals Speak for Yourself: Considerations of Ethics and Aesthetics in the Performance of a Community Oral History Project

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Young
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Shared Authority ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
A Site

This article outlines the creative and ethical process of staging a site-specific oral history community theatre project in the housing estate where I grew up in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Shandon Park -the name of the place and the performance- comprised of residents telling their own life stories in their homes in an investigation of memory, identity and place. The performance of memory articulated by people who were active agents in how they were presented investigated how the ownership of lived experience could exist within an effective dramatic structure. This article describes how the aesthetic qualities of performance within the reality of place were affected throughout the work by participants who continued to make changes to the piece. I describe how my dual role as past resident and present artist placed me at the intersection between ethics and aesthetics in the work and how my duty to members of my own community and my responsibility as an artist/researcher was in constant negotiation. In a consideration of Michael Frisch’s concept of ‘shared authority’ (1990), I will discuss how my own remembrance of Shandon Park was balanced with the needs of the participants and the requirements of the project to ensure that the work was both meaningful to an audience and indeed to my own theoretical enquiry.

scholarly journals Sociological methods of studying the history of the great patriotic war: opportunities and limitations

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Galina Gritsenko
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Sensory Data ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Empirical Database

The article reveals the possibilities of using sociological methods to collect the empirical information that relates to the spiritual sphere of everyday life. One of these is the oral history method. Its application allows you to create an empirical database of subjective emotional-sensory data. The necessity of not only knowing this data, but also translating it into the educational space, which ensures the sociocultural continuity of the natural historical process of the development of society, is substantiated.

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