Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter‐subjectivity in Oral History Analysis

Sarkar, Mahua

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“…Being able to discuss their war experiences was an opportunity for catharsis and enabled them to find meaning in their lives, and this was especially so for the majority who after the war entered a traditional life of domesticity and motherhood. 70 Even for those who remained on home soil during the war, the chance to engage in the war effort was seen as amongst the most interesting work of their professional careers. Two participants explicitly voiced their disappointment that the war ended before they had the opportunity for overseas service.…”

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Brooks¹

2019

Negotiating Nursing

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Section: Personal Testimony and The Nurses' Warmentioning

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Brooks¹

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Negotiating Nursing

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“…Penny Summerfield and other oral history scholars suggest that it is 'essential' to examine narrative form and context in oral histories, as well as their content. 48 Using oral histories told by British women who joined Women's Home Defense during the Second World War, Summerfield demonstrates that narrators draw on a range of public discourses to attach meaning to their experiences. A lack of narrative 'composure', evidenced by 'misremembering' and 'difficulties of narration,' occurs when the public discourses deployed in oral testimonies contain 'cultural silences' about narrator experiences.…”

Section: 'They're In Chunks': the Search For Meaning In Triathlon Oral Historiesmentioning

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In Search of a Meaningful Story: Oral History and Triathlon Memory in Australia

Hunt

2019

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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In Search of a Meaningful Story: Oral History and Triathlon Memory in AustraliaThere have been relatively limited efforts to systematically record and document the origins and growth of triathlon as a sport. The Mission Bay Triathlon, held September 25, 1974, is widely regarded as the first modern triathlon. Staged by the San Diego Track Club the novel event combined swimming, cycling and running in continuous succession, although not in that order. Two decades later, the concept had attained sufficient global recognition and organization to achieve Olympic inclusion. Yet, while many magazine articles, oral and video interviews, and some small circulation films and documentaries present aspects of the sport's past, triathlon is not the subject of a coherent sport history. This apparent silence raises interesting questions about the

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“…Reflecting on the relationship between the narrator and the researcher also leads to the questioning of the researcher's self-reflexivity and power differences (Sarkar 2012). In particular, categorical differences such as status, class, gender and ethnicity are considered relevant in the relationship between the researcher and the interviewee (Bornat 2013).…”

Section: Particularities Of Oral History: Epistemological and Methodomentioning

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“…In particular, categorical differences such as status, class, gender and ethnicity are considered relevant in the relationship between the researcher and the interviewee (Bornat 2013). The seeming asymmetrical relationship of power however needs to be relativised, as this relationship often appears to be "complex and shifting" (Armitage and Gluck 2002: 79), as interviewees exercise their agency in numerous ways by, for example, focusing on certain aspects while hiding others (Sarkar 2012, Portelli 1991, Bornat 2013. Another way of viewing interviewees' agency is to consider the notion of "composure" (Dawson 1994).…”

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Memories of the "liberation of Kosovo" among Albanian-speaking activists in Switzerland: narrating transnational belonging to the nation

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The Albanian-speaking population living in Switzerland mobilised massively on behalf of the national cause in Kosovo in the 1990s. After the end of the conflict, that saw the departure of the Serbian forces from Kosovo (1999), some of the Albanian-speaking activists from Switzerland returned to their homeland. Many others remained in Switzerland, where they largely diminished or terminated their homeland engagement. Since the end of the war, very little attention has been paid to these former champions of the national cause in Switzerland. Furthermore, there is also very little literature on the memories of the mobilisation in Switzerland and the related discourses of belonging to the "Albanian nation". The situation differs in Kosovo where several researchers have analysed the memorialisation of the recent past. This dissertation explores the narratives of homeland engagement related by Albanian-speaking former activists who engaged on behalf of the national cause in Kosovo from Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular, it scrutinises how they narrate national belonging in their memories of the quieter postwar years (after 1999). As such, this study falls within the field of research on nationhood and ethnicity that examines how people negotiate and reproduce nationhood away from extreme situations of nationalist movements and warfare. Furthermore, this research analyses the narratives with a transnational perspective as it focuses on how the interviewees mobilise and negotiate different discourses of national belonging embedded in the different social spaces they inhabit at the local, national, transnational and international levels. This research mainly relies on oral history interviews conducted with former Albanian-speaking activists who were active on behalf of Kosovo in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s. Of the fifty former activists who participated in this research, seven were interviewed in Kosovo and the rest in Switzerland, where most of the research participants still reside on a fixed or irregular basis. The interviewees told me about their trajectory as activists on behalf of the national cause, their vision of Albanianness and their position in the evolving "Albanian nation". The thesis is chiefly composed of three articles. They highlight the trajectories of the former activists from the years of engagement in the 1980s and 1990s to the search for a new status during the postwar period. While the thesis accounts for the negative image of the Albanianspeaking population in Switzerland, it also shows how they feel excluded and forgotten in postwar Kosovo. Moreover, the research demonstrates how the former activists use narratives of homeland engagement to reconfigure the symbolic categories and boundaries that delimit the "Albanian nation" and seek to enhance their own position. The thesis thus underlines the evolution of the narratives of belonging as an adaptation of the transnational situation of the activists, from the period of "hot" nationalism during the years of engagement to the ...

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Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter‐subjectivity in Oral History Analysis

Cited by 21 publications

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In Search of a Meaningful Story: Oral History and Triathlon Memory in Australia

Memories of the "liberation of Kosovo" among Albanian-speaking activists in Switzerland: narrating transnational belonging to the nation

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