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 Professor of History at Monash University, Australia and 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).

• Introduction: Oral History Part 1 – Creating Interviews Introduction1. Designing Ethical Oral History Projects and Partnerships Carla Pascoe Leahy (University of Tasmania, Australia)2. The Interview Relationship: Issues and approaches Pablo Pozzi (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)3. Varieties of Interviewing Amy Starecheski (Columbia University, USA)4. Deep Listening and Difficult Remembering Sean Field (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 5. Documenting and Preserving Interviews in a Digital Age Malin Thor Tureby (Linköping University, Sweden)Part 2 – Interpreting Oral Histories Introduction6. Memory as Evidence: Psycho-social approaches to interpreting life stories Anna Green (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)7. Analysing Language and Narrative, Voice, Body and Emotion Lindsey Dodd (Huddersfield University, UK)8. Thematic Interpretation of Interview Sets TBC9. Intersectional Interpretation Katrina Srigley (Nipissing University, Canada)10. Negotiating Interpretative Authority Ricardo Santhiago (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)Part 3 – Making HistoriesIntroduction11. Writing History using Interviews Kathy Nasstrom (University of San Francisco, USA)12. Oral History and Creative Writing TBC13. Making Oral History Exhibitions and Place-Based Installations TBC14. Making Audio Visual Histories TBC15. Performing Oral History Clare Summerskill (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Part 4 – Advocacy & EmpowermentIntroduction16. The Interviewee’s Experience of Oral History Anna Sheftel (Concordia University, Canada)17. Oral History, Public Engagement and ‘Community’ Advocacy TBC18. Doing Oral History ‘At Home’ Leyla Neyzi (Sabanci University, Turkey)19. Testimony and Historical ‘Truth’ Commissions Anna Bryson (Queens University, UK)20. Oral History, Policy and Professional Practice Alison Chand (University of Strathclyde, UK)21. Teaching Oral History TBCPart 5 – Big Questions and Future Directions Introduction22. Oral History and Indigenous Peoples: Indigenizing and decolonizing oral history Nepia Mahuika (University of Waikato, New Zealand)23. Oral History and our Planetary Future Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia, Australia)24. Oral History and Digital Futures Doug Boyd (University of Kentucky, USA)25. Oral History in an Autobiographical /Surveillance Age Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)Select BibliographyIndex

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.