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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history
This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its
transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing
scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and
placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual approach to
answer this question, Anthonie Holslag studies the cultural
expression of violence during the genocidal process itself, and in
the aftermath for the victims. By using this approach, this book
allows us to see comparatively how genocide in diasporic
communities in the Netherlands, London and the US is encapsulated
in an historic narrative. It paints a picture of the complexity of
genocidal violence itself, but also in its transgenerational and
non-spatial consequences, raising new questions of how violence can
be perpetuated or interlocked with the discourse and narratives of
the victims, and how the violence can be relived.
In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains
were relatively small multicultural communities that actively
maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional
kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the
People as described in the traditional stories of Wisashkecahk, or
Elder Brother, that outlined social interaction, marriage,
adoption, and kinship roles and responsibilities. In Elder Brother
and the Law of the People, Robert Innes offers a detailed analysis
of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary
kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in
southeastern Saskatchewan. He reveals how these tradition-inspired
practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of
""Indian"" and counter the perception that First Nations people
have internalized such classifications. He presents Cowessess's
successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Agreement and their
high inclusion rate of new ""Bill-C31s"" as evidence of the
persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role
as the central unifying factor for band membership. Elder Brother
and the Law of the People presents an entirely new way of viewing
Aboriginal cultural identity on the northern plains.
Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and
taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no
greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of
Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, the
movement's journey through the fractious and sectarian world of
mid-20th century revolutionary socialism was unique. Although at
times significant, Posadas' movement was ultimately a failure. As
it disintegrated, it increasingly grew to resemble a bizarre cult,
detached from the working class it sought to liberate. The renewed
interest in Posadism today - especially for its more outlandish
fixations - speaks to both a cynicism towards the past and
nostalgia for the earnest belief that a better world is possible.
Drawing on considerable archival research, and numerous interviews
with ex- and current Posadists, I Want to Believe tells the
fascinating story of this most unusual socialist movement and
considers why it continues to capture the imaginations of leftists
today.
This book is part of the Tempus Oral History series, which combines
the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived
images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain,
through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.
After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with
the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church.
This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660
and 1688 was to open oneself to charges of sedition or treason.
This book uses approaches from the field of memory studies to
examine 'seditious memories' in seventeenth-century Britain, asking
why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing them in
public. It argues that such activities were more than a
manifestation of discontent or radicalism - they also provided a
way of countering experiences of defeat. Besides speech and
writing, parliamentarian and republican views are shown to have
manifested as misbehaviour during official commemorations of the
civil wars and republic. The book also considers how such views
were passed on from the generation of men and women who experienced
civil war and revolution to their children and grandchildren. -- .
This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts. It
offers a distinctive approach by looking at narrative forms and
strategies associated with civil war testimony, historiography and
memory. The volume seeks to reflect current research in civil war
in a number of disciplines and covers a range of geographical
areas, from the advent of modern forms of testimonies, history
writing and public remembering in the early modern period, to the
present day. In focusing on narrative, broadly defined, the
contributors not only explore civil war testimonies, historiography
and memory as separate fields of inquiry, but also highlight the
interplay between these areas, which are shown to share porous
boundaries. Chapters look at the ways in which various narrative
forms feed off each other, be they oral, written or visual
narratives, personal or collective accounts, or testimonies from
victims or perpetrators.
This collection explores the intersections of oral history and
environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians
the opportunity to understand the ways people's perceptions,
experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In
turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral
historians to think more critically about the ways an active,
more-than-human world shapes experiences and people. The
integration of these approaches enables us to more fully and
critically understand the ways cultural and individual memory and
experience shapes human interactions with the more-than-human
world, just as it enables us to identify the ways human memory,
identity and experience is moulded by the landscapes and
environments in which people live and labour. It includes
contributions from Australia, India, the UK, Canada and the USA.
This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war
places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to
fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa,
namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese
Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are
the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans,
framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this
event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized
images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese
Colonial War: Conscripted Generation explores the memories and
consequences of this war for these veterans and their society.
Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel
neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a
thorough portrait of a continually shifting - and at times
paradoxical -individual and collective remembrance process.
This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in
California and its influence on both regional and national eating
habits. Early California politicians and entrepreneurs envisioned
agriculture as a solution to the food needs of the expanding
industrial nation. The state's climate, geography, vast expanses of
land, water, and immigrant workforce when coupled with university
research and governmental assistance provided a model for
agribusiness. In a short time, the San Francisco Bay Area became a
hub for guaranteeing Americans access to a consistent quantity of
quality foods. To this end, California agribusiness played a major
role in national food policies and subsequently produced a
bifurcated California Cuisine that sustained both Slow and Fast
Food proponents. Problems arose as mid-twentieth century social
activists battled the unresponsiveness of government agencies to
corporate greed, food safety, and environmental sustainability. By
utilizing multidisciplinary literature and oral histories the book
illuminates a more balanced look at how a California Cuisine
embraced Slow Food Made Fast.
The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully
reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its
overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the
formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism
of interorality as the systematic transposition of previously
composed storytales into new and distinct tales. The book offers a
powerful consideration of the interconnections between Caribbean
orality and Caribbean philosophy, especially as this pertains to
aesthetics and ethics. This is a new area of thought, a new
methodological approach and a new conceptual paradigm and
proposition to scholars, students, writers, artists and
intellectuals who conceive and examine intellectual and cultural
productions in the Black Atlantic world and beyond.
This book considers if and how oral history is 'best practice' for
education. International scholars, practitioners, and teachers
consider conceptual approaches, methodological limitations, and
pedagogical possibilities of oral history education. These experts
ask if and how oral history enables students to democratize
history; provides students with a lens for understanding
nation-states' development; and supports historical thinking skills
in the classrooms. This book provides the first comprehensive
assessment of oral history education - inclusive of oral tradition,
digital storytelling, family histories, and testimony - within the
context of 21st century schooling. By addressing the significance
of oral history for education, this book seeks to expand
education's capacity for teaching and learning about the past.
The year 1968 witnessed one of the great upheavals of the twentieth
century, as social movements shook every continent. Across the
Global North, people rebelled against post-war conformity and
patriarchy, authoritarian education and factory work, imperialism
and the Cold War. They took over workplaces and universities,
created their own media, art and humour, and imagined another
world. The legacy of 1968 lives on in many of today's struggles,
yet it is often misunderstood and caricatured. Voices of 1968 is a
vivid collection of original texts from the movements of the long
1968. We hear these struggles in their own words, showing their
creativity and diversity. We see feminism, black power, anti-war
activism, armed struggle, indigenous movements, ecology,
dissidence, counter-culture, trade unionism, radical education,
lesbian and gay struggles, and more take the stage. Chapters cover
France, Czechoslovakia, Northern Ireland, Britain, the USA, Canada,
Italy, West Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Yugoslavia and Japan.
Introductory essays frame the rich material - posters, speeches,
manifestos, flyers, underground documents, images and more - to
help readers explore the era's revolutionary voices and ideas and
understand their enduring impact on society, culture and politics
today.
Crowley interviews long-time residents of the Central Area, a
historically redlined neighborhood that was one of the few places
nonwhites could buy homes. Residents tell stories of working with
the Black Panthers, becoming activists in the 1960s, and of
building a thriving culture around church, music, and food. The
neighborhood is going through rapid gentrification today, and many
of these residents have been or will be displaced.
Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of
Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of
the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but
German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the
mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral historians describe the
violence, burdens, and inconveniences they associate with German
rule, yet place greater emphasis on the introductions by German
missionaries of Christianity and western education and the
prevalence of what they say was the "honesty," "order," and
"discipline" of the German colonial period. Remembering the Germans
in Ghana examines this oral history, scrutinizes its sources and
presentation, contextualizes it historically, and uses it to make
larger arguments about memory and identity in Ghana. It also
presents the case for more deliberate and extensive use of oral
history in reconstructing the African colonial past and provides a
methodology for its collection and analysis.
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