Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
New York; Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xxv, 301 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
ISBN 978-1-137-33964-5 (pbk); 978-1-137-33965-2 (ebook)
"Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki, 1
PART I: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFETIME OF LISTENING / Henry Greenspan, 21
1 From California to Kufr Nameh and Back: Reflections on 40 Years of Feminist Oral History / Sherna Berger Gluck, 25
2 "On" and "Off " the Record in Shifting Times and Circumstances / Julie Cruikshank and Tatiana Argounova-Low, 43
3 Politics and Praxis in Canadian Working-Class Oral History / Joan Sangster, 59
PART II: ENCOUNTERS IN VULNERABILITY, FAMILIARITY, AND FRIENDSHIP / Hourig Attarian, 77
4 The Vulnerable Listener / Martha Norkunas, 81
5 Listen and Learn: Familiarity and Feeling in the Oral History Interview / Alan Wong, 97
6 Going Places: Helping Youth with Refugee Experiences Take Their Stories Public / Elizabeth Miller, 113
7 Not Just Another Interviewee: Befriending a Holocaust Survivor / Stacey Zembrzycki, 129
PART III: THE INTERSECTION OF ETHICS AND POLITICS / Leyla Neyzi, 145
8 I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians-"For the Record" / Pamela Sugiman, 149
9 Third Parties in "Third Spaces": Reflecting on the Role of the Translator in Oral History Interviews with Iraqi Diasporic Women / Nadia Jones-Gailani, 169
10 "If you'd told me you wanted to talk about the '60s, I wouldn't have called you back": Reflections on Collective Memory and the Practice of Oral History / Nancy Janovicek, 185
11 The Ethical Murk of Using Testimony in Oral Historical Research in South Africa / Monica Eileen Patterson, 201
PART IV: CONSIDERING SILENCE / Erin Jessee, 219
12 Toward an Ethics of Silence? Negotiating Off-the-Record Events and Identity in Oral History / Alexander Freund, 223
13 The Heart of Activism in Colombia: Reflections on Activism and Oral History Research in a Conflict Area / Luis van Isschot, 239
14 "I don't fancy history very much": Reflections on Interviewee Recruitment and Refusal in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Anna Sheftel, 255
PART I: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFETIME OF LISTENING / Henry Greenspan, 21
1 From California to Kufr Nameh and Back: Reflections on 40 Years of Feminist Oral History / Sherna Berger Gluck, 25
2 "On" and "Off " the Record in Shifting Times and Circumstances / Julie Cruikshank and Tatiana Argounova-Low, 43
3 Politics and Praxis in Canadian Working-Class Oral History / Joan Sangster, 59
PART II: ENCOUNTERS IN VULNERABILITY, FAMILIARITY, AND FRIENDSHIP / Hourig Attarian, 77
4 The Vulnerable Listener / Martha Norkunas, 81
5 Listen and Learn: Familiarity and Feeling in the Oral History Interview / Alan Wong, 97
6 Going Places: Helping Youth with Refugee Experiences Take Their Stories Public / Elizabeth Miller, 113
7 Not Just Another Interviewee: Befriending a Holocaust Survivor / Stacey Zembrzycki, 129
PART III: THE INTERSECTION OF ETHICS AND POLITICS / Leyla Neyzi, 145
8 I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians-"For the Record" / Pamela Sugiman, 149
9 Third Parties in "Third Spaces": Reflecting on the Role of the Translator in Oral History Interviews with Iraqi Diasporic Women / Nadia Jones-Gailani, 169
10 "If you'd told me you wanted to talk about the '60s, I wouldn't have called you back": Reflections on Collective Memory and the Practice of Oral History / Nancy Janovicek, 185
11 The Ethical Murk of Using Testimony in Oral Historical Research in South Africa / Monica Eileen Patterson, 201
PART IV: CONSIDERING SILENCE / Erin Jessee, 219
12 Toward an Ethics of Silence? Negotiating Off-the-Record Events and Identity in Oral History / Alexander Freund, 223
13 The Heart of Activism in Colombia: Reflections on Activism and Oral History Research in a Conflict Area / Luis van Isschot, 239
14 "I don't fancy history very much": Reflections on Interviewee Recruitment and Refusal in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Anna Sheftel, 255
