The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History
Description
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is a comprehensive examination of oral history which addresses a wide range of practitioners, from beginning students to graduate students and established scholars, community and freelance practitioners in the field, and those from other fields and disciplines interested in oral history. The purpose of the book is to provide a broad range of readers with:
* An advanced introduction into and overview of the field;
* Cutting-edge reflections on core themes in the field; and
* Global comparative perspectives on oral history theory and practice
The Handbook is arranged in five thematic Parts: Creating Interviews, Interpreting Oral Histories, Making Histories, Advocacy & Empowerment, and Big Questions & Future Directions. Each chapter documents the state-of-the-art in a particular subject area and surveys the international historiography and current debates. Each chapter concludes with a brief outlook of potential future developments in the field.
With chapter authors from every region of the oral history world - North America, South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe - and each author making use of examples and scholarship from across the global field of oral history, this volume represents the first truly international handbook of oral history.
Table of Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
Introduction 1
Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)Erin Jessee, (University of Glasgow, UK) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
PART 1 CREATING INTERVIEWS
Introduction 13
1 Oral History and the Interview 25
Amy Starecheski (Columbia University, USA)
2 The Interviewee's Experience of Oral History 41
Anna Sheftel (Concordia University, Canada)
3 Designing Ethical Oral History Projects and Partnerships 57
Carla Pascoe Leahy (Independent Historian, Australia)
4 The Oral History Relationship: Interviewing Latin American Activists 73
Pablo Pozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
5 The Anxieties of Oral History Dialogues 89
Sean Field (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
PART 2 INTERPRETING ORAL HISTORIES
Introduction 107
6 Oral History as Evidence: Multidisciplinary Approaches 119
Anna Green (Stout Research Centre, New Zealand)
7 Voice, Emotion, Language, Narrative, Body: Analyzing Meaning in Oral
History 137
Lindsey Dodd (Independent Historian, UK)
8 Oral History as Data: Multimodal Approaches to Analysis and
Interpretation 153
Andrew Flinn, (University College London, UK) Julianne Nyhan, (TU Darmstadt, Germany and University College London, UK) and Hannah Smyth (University College London, UK)
9 When Relationships and Stories Guide Our Practice: Subjectivities,
Intersubjectivities, and Intersectionality in Oral History 171
Katrina Srigley (Nipissing University, Canada)
10 Negotiating Interpretative Conflict in Oral History 193
Ricardo Santhiago (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
PART 3 MAKING HISTORIES
Introduction 209
11 Writing Oral History 219
Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
12 Oral History and Creative Writing 237
Ariella Van Luyn (University of New England, Australia)
13 Listening for Place: Curating Landscape with Oral History 255
Mark Tebeau (Arizona State University, USA)
14 Making Audiovisual Histories: Oral History in Disguise 271
Nairy AbdElShafy (Independent Historian and Researcher, Egypt)
15 Oral History Performance 289
Clare Summerskill (Independent Researcher, UK)
PART 4 ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT
Introduction 305
16 Listening for Change: Oral History, Policy, and Professional Practice 313
Alison Chand (University of Strathclyde and University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland)
17 Crisis Oral History: Methodology, Ethics, and Pedagogy 329
Hourig Attarian, (American University of Armenia, Armenia) Erin Jessee, (University of Glasgow, UK) Kathryn Nasstrom (University of San Francisco, USA) and Monica Eileen Patterson (Carleton University, Canada)
18 Testimony and Transitional Justice: Speaking, Truth, and Power 345
Anna Bryson (Queen's University Belfast, Ireland) and Julia Volkmar (Law Society of Ireland, Ireland)
19 Teaching with Oral History: Reckoning with Stories of the Past 365
Kristina R. Llewellyn, (McMaster University, Canada) Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, (University of Ottawa, Canada) Marina Bantiou, (University of Thessaly and University of Peloponnese, Greece) Patrick Phillips (University of Ottawa, Canada), and Kiera Brant-Birioukov (Independent researcher, Canada)
PART 5 CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Introduction 383
20 I Am the Voice of My Ancestors: Defining Oral History on
Indigenous Terms 393
Nepia Mahuika (Massey University, New Zealand)
21 Oral History and our Planetary Future 409
Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia) and Meera Anna Oommen (Independent academic, India)
22 Monitoring the Self: Oral History in an Age of Autobiography
and Surveillance 425
Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
23 AI and Oral History: Anticipating Oral History's Fifth Paradigm 443
Douglas A. Boyd (University of Kentucky Libraries, USA)
Epilogue: Oral History in Troubling Times 459
Alexander Freund, (University of Winnipeg, Canada) Erin Jessee, (University of Glasgow, UK) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 463
INDEX 467
Product details
| Published | 19 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 504 |
| ISBN | 9781350379930 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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