Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-23
From California to Kufr Nameh and Back: Reflections on 40 Years of Feminist Oral History....Pages 25-42
“On” and “Off” the Record in Shifting Times and Circumstances....Pages 43-58
Politics and Praxis in Canadian Working-Class Oral History....Pages 59-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-80
The Vulnerable Listener....Pages 81-96
Listen and Learn: Familiarity and Feeling in the Oral History Interview....Pages 97-111
Going Places: Helping Youth with Refugee Experiences Take Their Stories Public....Pages 113-127
Not Just Another Interviewee: Befriending a Holocaust Survivor....Pages 129-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-148
I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians—“For the Record”....Pages 149-167
Third Parties in “Third Spaces”: Reflecting on the Role of the Translator in Oral History Interviews with Iraqi Diasporic Women....Pages 169-183
“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....Pages 185-199
The Ethical Murk of Using Testimony in Oral Historical Research in South Africa....Pages 201-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-222
Toward an Ethics of Silence? Negotiating Off-the-Record Events and Identity in Oral History....Pages 223-238
The Heart of Activism in Colombia: Reflections on Activism and Oral History Research in a Conflict Area....Pages 239-253
“I don’t fancy history very much”: Reflections on Interviewee Recruitment and Refusal in Bosnia-Herzegovina....Pages 255-271
Afterword....Pages 273-286
Back Matter....Pages 273-301