Handbook of Global Oral History
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Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.
Contains index
Series: Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies, 3
ISBN 978-90-04-73718-1 (ebook), 978-90-04-51728-8 (hbk)
"The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory studies, Indigenous history and journalism to anthropology, trauma, and archival studies. Their essays provide fresh theoretical insights to the field of oral history, and broaden current notions of how oral history fieldwork can be applied and how archived interviews can be interpreted." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Selma Leydesdorff und Mark Cave, 1
PART 1. LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
1 Oral History and the Indigenous Turn / Nēpia Mahuika, 23
2 Oral History and the War: the View from Papua New Guinea / John Waiko, 46
3 Survivance in Highland Guatemala: Disease, Epidemics, and Healing in Maya Oral Histories / David Carey, 61
4 “At Your Service”: West African Griots in Dialogue with Researchers [Mali] / Jan Jansen, 84
5 The Emerging Contours of Oral History in India: Now and Then / Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, 104
6 The Child Survivor: Writing a History of the Holocaust in Greece from a Youth Perspective / Pothiti Hantzaroula, 127
7 Gukurahundi Narratives and Afterlives: Intergenerational and across Generational Memory [Zimbabwe] / Nompilo C. Ndlovu, 151
8 Edible Histories and Inherited Memories: the Interconnectedness of Food, Place, and Space in Iraqi Women’s Diasporic Narratives / Nadia Jones-Gailani, 180
9 Drinking Tea Together: Interviewing Hazara Refugees in Australia / Denise Phillips, 206
PART 2. THE ARCHIVE
10 Bits and Bytes: Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors as Digital Research Data / Verena Lucia Nägel, 237
11 The Tale of the Kapos: a Secondary Analysis of Interviews with Nazi Concentration Camp Survivors / Alexander Prenninger, 260
12 A Different Way of Listening: Orality and Sound in Colombia’s Truth Commission / Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar, 287
13 For Remembrance and Recognition: Oral History and Timor-Leste’s Independence from Indonesian Rule / Vannessa Hearman, 305
14 The Return of the Repressed: the Endurance of Repression in Post-Soviet Russia – What We Learned from Oral Histories / Nanci Adler, 326
15 Collaborative Conundrum: Opportunities and Challenges of Joint Interpretation of Archived Oral Histories / Alexander Freund, Sofia Bach, und Claudia Dueck, 345
16 When Is It Not “Fine”? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination in Oral Histories of Soviet Citizens / Jeff Sahadeo, 367
17 Why Did This Happen? Making Meaningful Answers in the Aftermath of Crisis / Mark Cave, 388
18 Changing Climate, Changing Cultures: a Multimedia Oral History Approach to Documenting the Impacts of Climate Change on Agrarian Communities / Anahi Naranjo Jara, 408
19 Peoples and Places: Australian Oral Histories of Migration and Environmental Change / Kate Darian-Smith und Carla Pascoe Leahy, 428
PART 3. TRANSFORMATIONS
20 “Bowled Over by Burning Kangaroos”: Women’s Writing on Weather Disaster in the Context of Climate Change / Deb Anderson und Nicolette Snowden, 463
21 Oralities, Voice, and Affect in Oral History Work in the Afterlives of Violence / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, 493
22 Oral History, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression: Theoretical Frameworks and Case Studies on the Embodied Interview / Jeff Friedman, 519
23 Survivor Innocence and the Recovery of Political Pasts: the Case of the Cambodian Diaspora in Montreal / Naomi Frost und Steven High, 547
24 Conducting Oral History with Ex-Enemies: the Dynamics of Former Antagonists / Tomoyo Nakao, 575
25 Remembering “Different” Pasts in Kyiv: Three Interviews with Arkadi Moissejewitsch Waispapir (1921–2018) / Selma Leydesdorff, 595
26 From Speechlessness to Narrative: the Cases of Holocaust Historians and of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Survivors / Dori Laub, 614
27 In Search of Humanity after War and Violence: Survivors’ and Perpetrators’ Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh / Yasmin Saikia, 627
28 “To Make This Voice Known”: Oral History, Psychology, and Trauma-Informed Interviews with Survivors of Genocide / Stephen M. Sloan und Melissa M. Sloan, 651
29 Fantasies of Oral History / Sean Field, 677
PART 1. LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
1 Oral History and the Indigenous Turn / Nēpia Mahuika, 23
2 Oral History and the War: the View from Papua New Guinea / John Waiko, 46
3 Survivance in Highland Guatemala: Disease, Epidemics, and Healing in Maya Oral Histories / David Carey, 61
4 “At Your Service”: West African Griots in Dialogue with Researchers [Mali] / Jan Jansen, 84
5 The Emerging Contours of Oral History in India: Now and Then / Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, 104
6 The Child Survivor: Writing a History of the Holocaust in Greece from a Youth Perspective / Pothiti Hantzaroula, 127
7 Gukurahundi Narratives and Afterlives: Intergenerational and across Generational Memory [Zimbabwe] / Nompilo C. Ndlovu, 151
8 Edible Histories and Inherited Memories: the Interconnectedness of Food, Place, and Space in Iraqi Women’s Diasporic Narratives / Nadia Jones-Gailani, 180
9 Drinking Tea Together: Interviewing Hazara Refugees in Australia / Denise Phillips, 206
PART 2. THE ARCHIVE
10 Bits and Bytes: Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors as Digital Research Data / Verena Lucia Nägel, 237
11 The Tale of the Kapos: a Secondary Analysis of Interviews with Nazi Concentration Camp Survivors / Alexander Prenninger, 260
12 A Different Way of Listening: Orality and Sound in Colombia’s Truth Commission / Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar, 287
13 For Remembrance and Recognition: Oral History and Timor-Leste’s Independence from Indonesian Rule / Vannessa Hearman, 305
14 The Return of the Repressed: the Endurance of Repression in Post-Soviet Russia – What We Learned from Oral Histories / Nanci Adler, 326
15 Collaborative Conundrum: Opportunities and Challenges of Joint Interpretation of Archived Oral Histories / Alexander Freund, Sofia Bach, und Claudia Dueck, 345
16 When Is It Not “Fine”? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination in Oral Histories of Soviet Citizens / Jeff Sahadeo, 367
17 Why Did This Happen? Making Meaningful Answers in the Aftermath of Crisis / Mark Cave, 388
18 Changing Climate, Changing Cultures: a Multimedia Oral History Approach to Documenting the Impacts of Climate Change on Agrarian Communities / Anahi Naranjo Jara, 408
19 Peoples and Places: Australian Oral Histories of Migration and Environmental Change / Kate Darian-Smith und Carla Pascoe Leahy, 428
PART 3. TRANSFORMATIONS
20 “Bowled Over by Burning Kangaroos”: Women’s Writing on Weather Disaster in the Context of Climate Change / Deb Anderson und Nicolette Snowden, 463
21 Oralities, Voice, and Affect in Oral History Work in the Afterlives of Violence / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, 493
22 Oral History, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression: Theoretical Frameworks and Case Studies on the Embodied Interview / Jeff Friedman, 519
23 Survivor Innocence and the Recovery of Political Pasts: the Case of the Cambodian Diaspora in Montreal / Naomi Frost und Steven High, 547
24 Conducting Oral History with Ex-Enemies: the Dynamics of Former Antagonists / Tomoyo Nakao, 575
25 Remembering “Different” Pasts in Kyiv: Three Interviews with Arkadi Moissejewitsch Waispapir (1921–2018) / Selma Leydesdorff, 595
26 From Speechlessness to Narrative: the Cases of Holocaust Historians and of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Survivors / Dori Laub, 614
27 In Search of Humanity after War and Violence: Survivors’ and Perpetrators’ Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh / Yasmin Saikia, 627
28 “To Make This Voice Known”: Oral History, Psychology, and Trauma-Informed Interviews with Survivors of Genocide / Stephen M. Sloan und Melissa M. Sloan, 651
29 Fantasies of Oral History / Sean Field, 677
