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Oral history and photography
\"This essay collection explores the \"photographic turn\" in oral history. Contributors ask how oral historians can best use photographs in their interviewing practice and how they can best understand photographs in their interpretation of oral histories. The authors present a dozen case studies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In exploring the intersection of oral history and photography, they complicate and move beyond the use of photographs as social documents and memory triggers and demonstrate how photographs frame oral narratives and how stories unsettle the seeming fixity of photographs' meanings\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of Methodology in International Relations Research
While there have been substantial methodological advances in the field of oral history since World War II, it remains an underutilized research method among historians of International Relations. Specifically, as this article will show, most historians of International Relations still choose principally to rely on archival research, while approaching oral history with great suspicion, finding it irrelevant to their work. Using Israel as a case study, I explore the ways in which the relationship between the country's intelligence and defense institutions and its foreign policy has created a barrier to the incorporation of oral history as a research method for gathering empirical evidence to support a historical understanding of policy decisions. I argue that there is a clear utility to accessing the memories of the Israeli diplomatic/intelligence elites because they shed new light on actors, events, themes, and processes that characterize Israel's foreign policy since 1948. Oral history, therefore, allows both for a more nuanced and broader interpretation of a history of International Relations and diplomacy. The insights gleaned from Israel's particular case study could be further applied to other International Relations research settings, and so I also discuss not only the ways in which the methodology can impact our understanding of International Relations, but also the complexities of undertaking interviews with those whose words, if not chosen correctly, could influence current global international affairs.
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Text Mining Oral Histories in Historical Archaeology
Advances in text mining and natural language processing methodologies have the potential to productively inform historical archaeology and oral history research. However, text mining methods are largely developed in the context of contemporary big data and publicly available texts, limiting the applicability of these tools in the context of historical and archaeological interpretation. Given the ability of text analysis to efficiently process and analyze large volumes of data, the potential for such tools to meaningfully inform historical archaeological research is significant, particularly for working with digitized data repositories or lengthy texts. Using oral histories recorded about a half-century ago from the anthracite coal mining region of Pennsylvania, USA, we discuss recent methodological developments in text analysis methodologies. We suggest future pathways to bridge the gap between generalized text mining methods and the particular needs of working with historical and place-based texts.
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Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge
This article aims to broaden joint performances of talk-story, a form of Indigenous Research Methodology, to give voice to non-indigenous participants who presuppose misrepresentation in qualitative research. Indigenous Research Methodologies emerged to challenge axiological concerns with Western Research Methodologies, which participants perceive to disregard, oppress, and exploit those they claim to represent. Founded on the principle of relational accountability, Indigenous Research Methodologies place learning co-created knowledges and social epistemologies at the center of the study, promoting the publication of authentic explanations and representations that empower participants. In response to grounded theories emerging from talk-story with non-indigenous members of the global surfing tribe, describing their anger and powerlessness against cultural studies researchers who deceive and misrepresent them in a perceived culture war, I explain how non-indigenous researchers and disempowered populations can jointly perform talk-story to co-create depictions that survive participant scrutiny. However, I caution that influential gatekeepers will execute Western a priori assertions and cultural imperialism to silence opposing voices and epistemologies empowered by talk-story. Nonetheless, my article aims to contribute towards promoting performances of talk-story methodology by explaining how an indigenous paradigm enables analytical processes to be shared, thus exposing insights participants perceive to be silenced by Western Research Methodologies.
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Developing an original Café Delphi historical method to research women's individual and collective experiences of sex, sexuality and sexism in PR in the 1990s
PurposeThis paper aims to develop an original Café Delphi historical method to research women's individual and collective experiences of sex, sexuality and sexism in public relations (PR) in 1990s’ Britain.Design/methodology/approachAn original Café Delphi historical method is shaped by an interpretive paradigm providing a conceptual framework to model sex, sexuality and sexism. This approaches history as a social science drawing on hermeneutic phenomenology, reflexivity and ethics of care. A case study, employing oral history and participatory action research (PAR), is used to develop and test the practicality of the original Café Delphi historical method to research women's individual and collective experiences of PR in 1990s’ Britain.FindingsThree main findings are identified. (1) Developing a new method is complex, time-consuming and surfaces practical problems; however, the Café Delphi historical method is a viable way to explore individual and collective experiences. (2) Undertaking methodological innovation and innovating research methods involves action learning and requires agility, reflexivity and ability to navigate messiness and order. (3) Testing the multiphase mixed method study revealed its power and potential as an ethical and collaborative co-research approach.Originality/valueThis study expands the repertoire of research methods in PR historiography and provides a new approach to capture collective as well as individual experiences. This study develops a feminine analytic tool employing metamodern oscillation to connect past, present and future.
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Queering Chronology and the Archaeological Archive
The divide between historical and prehistoric archaeology in the North American tradition is a result of the discipline’s colonial heritage. This system of power serves to disenfranchise descendant populations by invoking the perception of imminent and unavoidable acculturation. In order to rid the discipline of this damaging divisiveness, we archaeologists must examine our categories, deconstruct them through an engagement with critical theories, and reconstruct culturally contextual and complex understandings of the past through collaboration with Indigenous communities. The whitewashing of history caused by “chronocentrism” can be undone in part by engaging with queer theory, which advocates for a deconstruction of categories through reflexivity, an attention to and valuation of small-scale events, the relinquishing of tidy grand narratives that promote normative ideas of progress, and a consideration for emergent and dynamic processes of society. This mode of research requires that we no longer privilege texts or scientific methodology based on the “type of archaeology” we are conducting, but rather utilize the proper tools for the questions asked of the record. Turning to archaeology in Hawaiʻi as a case study, I emphasize methodological approaches informed by queer theory and critical Indigenous theory. Said approaches deconstruct the prehistoric/historical divide that dominates Hawaiian archaeology by centering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) oral histories and worldviews rather than European American histories and documentation. The queering of the historical approach provides a more complete picture of the complex histories of descendant communities.
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Developing culturally relevant and collaborative research approaches : A case study of working with remote and regional Aboriginal students to prepare them for life beyond school
For millennia, stories and oral histories have been a fundamental way of sharing knowledge in many Aboriginal cultures. Honouring the role of stories can address a continuing lack of Aboriginal voices in Australian educational
research literature. In this paper, we describe the philosophical underpinnings and methodology of our research, which aimed to learn from Aboriginal people about their post-school experiences, particularly in remote communities. The
uniqueness of the project included training currently enrolled students as researchers to interview past students through yarning and storying. The collected stories were then interpreted and represented in audio recordings later
developed into podcasts, writing, and through art. The aim of these research outcomes is to inform relevant policies and the development of teaching and learning resources for Aboriginal students. The way the methodology of our study
evolved in response to the participants' input is another key focus of this paper as well as having implications for future research. [Author abstract]
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On Living through Soviet Russia
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
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Decentralisation as a marketing strategy for archival services in Zimbabwe
PurposeArchival institutions must make their holdings and services known to the public to ensure increased usage. It is the obligation of archival institutions to adopt strategies to market their services to increase the usage of their holdings. Therefore, this study aims to assess the National Archives of Zimbabwe’s (NAZ) decentralisation drive as a strategy to market its archival services.Design/methodology/approachThe multiple case study research design, which is interpretive and qualitative, was used for the study. The study used interviews, questionnaires and document review as data collection tools. The collected data were presented, analysed and discussed using the thematic data analysis approach.FindingsFindings revealed that the NAZ decentralised provincial records centres were actively involved in the marketing of archival services offered by the NAZ. The study also established that the decentralised provincial records centres perform activities such as records surveys, training, oral history, issuance of brochures, guided tours and career guidance, which increase their interactions with communities they serve. The decentralised offices took advantage of these interactions to market archival services offered by the NAZ.Originality/valueThe study illustrated that decentralisation of archival institutions and services to the lower tiers of government is a powerful strategy for the marketing of archival services. Therefore, there is need for archival institutions to adopt or enhance the use of this strategy to increase the usage of archives.
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Vitality of Moi Language: A Case Study of Moi Tribes in Southwest Papua, Indonesia
This study aims to explore the language preference of Moi tribe within family settings. It ultimately seeks to evaluate how these language choices affect the preservation of the Moi language in the multilingual environment of Southwest Papua. The research involves 300 participants, categorized by gender and age. Data were gathered through semi-structured interview questionnaires and observations. The results indicate that Indonesian is primarily used in family interactions. While the participants often engage in code-switching, the findings reveal that younger generations tend to be passive speakers of the Moi language, with some lacking even a basic comprehension of their mother tongue. Factors such as social context, peer relationships, and motivation play a significant role in shaping the language choices of the participants. Furthermore, the study indicates a clear shift from the Moi language to Indonesian in the linguistic practices of the participants.
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