Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History

Alexander Freund is Professor of History and holds the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He co-founded the UWinnipeg Oral History Centre, has been active in the International Oral History Association and several national oral history associations. He has published widely in oral history and is the author of Being German-Canadian: History, Memory, and Generations (2021).Erin Jessee is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she works across the program’s research streams in oral history, war studies, gender history, and global history. She has fifteen years of experience working in Rwanda, among other conflict-affected contexts, and is the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda (2017). More recently, she has begun focusing on early Rwandan history and cultural heritage studies, and has co-authored an oral history—based graphic novel, Nyiragitwa, among other publications.Alistair Thomson is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, Australia and Past President of Oral History Australia. He previously served as President of the International Oral History Association (2006-08) and editor of the British journal Oral History (1991-2007). His oral history books include: Anzac Memories (1994 and 2013), The Oral History Reader (1998, 2006 and 2015 with Robert Perks), Ten Pound Poms (2005, with Jim Hammerton), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011, with Alexander Freund), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017, with Anisa Puri).

Oral History has come of age as an historical methodology. In this Handbook the editors have assembled an invaluable and provocative collection of interventions by international scholars addressing oral history practice, theory, interpretation and its place as an animator of policy and social and political change. As both a review of the state of the field and a predictor of future developments, this book will be an essential reference point for anyone who seeks to engage with and understand the past through conversations with those who experienced it.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSACKNOWLEDGMENTSIntroduction Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Erin Jessee, (University of Glasgow, UK), and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)PART 1: CREATING INTERVIEWSIntroduction1. Oral History and the Interview Amy Starecheski (Columbia University, USA)2. The Interviewee's Experience of Oral History Anna Sheftel (Concordia University, Canada)3. Designing Ethical Oral History Projects and Partnerships Carla Pascoe Leahy (Independent Historian, Australia)4. The Oral History Relationship: Interviewing Latin American Activists Pablo Pozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)5. The Anxieties of Oral History Dialogues Sean Field (University of Cape Town, South Africa)PART 2: INTERPRETING ORAL HISTORIESIntroduction6. Oral History as Evidence: Multidisciplinary Approaches Anna Green (Stout Research Centre, New Zealand)7. Voice, Emotion, Language, Narrative, Body: Analyzing Meaning in Oral History Lindsey Dodd (Independent Historian, UK)8. Oral History as Data: Multimodal Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation 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 Katrina Srigley (Nipissing University, Canada)10. Negotiating Interpretative Conflict in Oral History Ricardo Santhiago (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)PART 3: MAKING HISTORIESIntroduction11. Writing Oral History Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)12. Oral History and Creative Writing Ariella Van Luyn (University of New England, Australia)13. Listening for Place: Curating Landscape with Oral History Mark Tebeau (Arizona State University, USA)14. Making Audiovisual Histories: Oral History in Disguise Nairy AbdElShafy (Independent Historian and Researcher, Egypt)15. Oral History Performance Clare Summerskill (Independent Researcher, UK)PART 4: ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENTIntroduction16. Listening for Change: Oral History, Policy, and Professional Practice Alison Chand (University of Strathclyde and University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)17. Crisis Oral History: Methodology, Ethics, and Pedagogy 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 Anna Bryson (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Julia Volkmar (Law Society of Ireland, Ireland)19. Teaching with Oral History: Reckoning with Stories of the Past 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 DIRECTIONSIntroduction20. I Am the Voice of My Ancestors: Defining Oral History on Indigenous Terms Nepia Mahuika (Massey University, New Zealand) 21. Oral History and our Planetary Future Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia, Australia) and Meera Anna Oommen (Independent Scholar, India)22. Monitoring the Self: Oral History in an Age of Autobiography and Surveillance Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)23. AI and Oral History: Anticipating Oral History’s Fifth Paradigm Douglas A. Boyd (University of Kentucky Libraries, USA)Epilogue: Oral History in Troubling Times Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow, UK) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia)SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX