Listening on the Edge (eBook, PDF)

Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis
Redaktion: Cave, Mark; Sloan, Stephen M.

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Produktbeschreibung

From the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning and broader significance of crisis and disaster. The complexity and texture of these situations are most evident in the broader personal stories of those whom the events impact most intimately. Oral history, with its focus on listening and collaborative creation with participants, has emerged as a forceful approach to exploring the human experience of crisis. Despite the recent growth of crisis oral history fieldwork, there has been little formal discussion of the process and meaning of utilizing oral history in these environments. Oral history research takes on special dimensions when working in highly charged situations often in close proximity to traumatic events. The emergent inclination for oral historians to respond to document crisis calls for a shared conversation among scholars as to what we have learned from crisis work so far. This dialogue, at the heart of this collection of oral history excerpts and essays, reveals new layers of the work of the oral historian. From the perspective of crisis and disaster oral history, the book addresses both the ways in which we think about the craft of oral hsitory, and the manner in which we use it. The book presents excerpts from oral histories done after twelve world crises, followed by critical analyses by the interviewers. Additional analytical chapters set the interviews in the contexts of pyschoanalysis and oral history methodology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199859320
• Artikelnr.: 42619541

Autorenporträt

Mark Cave is Curator of manuscripts and oral historian, The Historic New Orleans Collection Stephen M. Sloan is Assistant Professor of history and director, Institute for Oral History; Baylor University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What Remains: Reflections on Crisis Oral History
Mark Cave; Part I: Clamor; 1. When All is Lost: Metanarrative in the Oral History of Hanifa
Survivor of Srebrenica
Selma Leydesdorff; Oral history by Selma Leydesdorff with Hanifa
Refugee camp
East Bosnia
April 2004; 2. To Dream My Family Tonight: Listening to Stories of Grief and Hope among Hazaras Refugees in Australia
; Denise Phillips; Oral histories by Denise Phillips with Reza and Juma
Brisbane and Melbourne
Australia
2004-2011; 3. Exhuming the Self: Trauma and Student Survivors of the Shootings at Virginia Tech
Tamara Kennelly and Susan E. Fleming-Cook; Oral histories by Susan E. Fleming Cook with Yang Kim
Derek O'Dell
and Kristina Heeger-Anderson
Blacksburg
Virginia
2009-2010; 4. Talking Cure: Trauma
Narrative
and the Cuban Rafter Crisis
Elizabeth Campisi; Oral histories by Elizabeth Campisi with Cuban Rafter Crisis survivors conducted in Miami
Florida
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
and Rochester
New York
1998-2001; 5. In the Ghost Forest: Listening to Tutsi Rescapes
Taylor Krauss; Oral histories by Taylor Krauss with Rwandan Rescapes
Kigali
Rwanda
2007-2008.; 6. The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Oral History and Psychoanalysis in the Aftermath of Terror
Ghislaine Boulanger; Part II: Resonance; 7. Unlocked: Perspective and the New Orleans Prison Evacuation Crisis
Mark Cave; Oral histories by Mark Cave with members of the Louisiana Department of Corrections
Angola
Pineville
and Keithville
Louisiana
March 23 and 24
June 17 and 18
2009; 8. Living Too in Murder City: Oral History as Alternative Perspective to the Drug War in Ciudad Juarez
Eric Meringer; Oral histories by Eric Rodrigo Meringer with Juarez residents Jonathan
Rosa and Raul
Ciudad Juarez
Mexico
2009-2010; 9. Until Our Last Breath: Voices of Poisoned Workers in China
Karin Mak; Oral histories by Karin Mak with Ren
Min
Fu
and Wu
Huizhou
Guangdong and rural Sichuan
China
August and September
2007; 10. Woven Together: Attachment to Place in the Aftermath of Disaster
Perspectives from Four Continents
; Eleonora Rohland
Maike Bocker
Gitte Cullmann
Ingo Haltermann
Franz Mauelshagen ; Oral histories by Eleonora Rohland
Maike Bocker
Gitte Cullmann
and Ingo Haltermann with residents of New Orleans
Louisiana; Accra
Ghana; eastern Brandenburg
Germany; and Chaiten
Chile
2009-2010; 11. Smile Through the Tears: Life
Art
and the Rwandan Genocide
Steven High; Oral history by Jessica Silva with Rupert Bazambanza
Montreal
Canada
June 3 and 12 and July 6
2008; 12. A Spiritual War: Crises of Faith in Combat Chaplains from Iraq and Afghanistan
David Peters; Interviews by David W. Peters with Christina
Michael
Timothy
Craig
and George
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington
DC
2011; 13. A Long Song: Oral History in the Time of Emergency and After
Mary Marshall Clark; Oral histories by Gerry Albarelli and Temma Kaplan with Mohammad Bilal-Mizra
Talat Hamdani
Zaheer Jaffery
Salman Jaffery
and Zohra Saed
New York City
October 2001 to June 2005; Conclusion: The Fabric of Crisis: Approaching the Heart of Oral History
Stephen Sloan; Contributors; Index