Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class

Foweraker, Joe; Passerini, Luisa

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“…On this basis, a fundamental and social theoretical foundation was created for the collection and analysis of data for reconstructive biographical research. A further influence came from industrial sociology, which had begun to collect the narratives of workers (Bahrdt, 1975), and from oral history, which developed at the same time (with some precursors in the USA) and aimed to include people's experiences or everyday life, a kind of 'history from below', in the study of historical developments (Passerini, 1986;Thompson, 1992).…”

Section: Biography In the History Of Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research

2023

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Reconstructive biographical research is a diverse and differentiated sociological field. In this introduction, we trace its interdisciplinary and transnational historical development, consider the most important theoretical influences, and characterize central research areas. In this way, we show that reconstructive biographical research is a distinct sociological approach to social analysis. It offers a reflexive access to understanding, classifying, and explaining social processes and social challenges through the analysis of experienced and/or narrated life stories.

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Section: Biography In the History Of Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research

2023

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“…Undoubtedly, the archaeological literature that deeply engages with memory (see for example Mills and Walker [2008], Olivier [2003], Shackel [2001], Starzmann and Roby [2016], Van Dyke [2019], and Van Dyke and Alcock [2003]) and foundational memory theorists (Connerton 1989;Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983;Nora 1989) is vast. The work presented here, however, takes great inspiration instead from ethnographies of memory (for example, Cole 2001;Passerini 1987;Stern 2010) and especially from Caribbean cultural theorists, poets, and novelists (see, for example, Brand [1999], Brodber [2014], Chamoiseau [1998], and Walcott [1998]), for whom memory and place are key to conceptualizing Caribbean identity and island experience. This chapter does not attempt to identify the "past in the past" (see Van Dyke and Alcock [2003] for examples), construct or challenge collective memory or heritage discourses, or use archaeological materials as vectors of memory; nor does it seek to monumentalize memory on the landscape.…”

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2 Materializing Memory and Building Community: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology of a Nineteenth‐Century Bahamian Plantation

Sesma

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The Millars Plantation on Eleuthera, Bahamas was first established in 1803 as a cotton plantation and remained in operation through the 1830s. After emancipation, the formerly enslaved community continued to live on and work the plantation acreage and surrounding areas, until 1871 when Ann Millar formally left the 2000 acre‐property to the descendants of her former slaves and servants. That descendant community still upholds their right to this land today, despite a series of legal challenges by Bahamian and foreign investors who seek to develop new tourism‐based economies in the area. In the process of documenting the historical landscape of the Millars Plantation through oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and landscape survey, the research revealed ways that residents today have materialized memory—piecing together object, story, and space—on a living landscape that has too often been framed as empty or relegated to the past. This chapter investigates the ways in which memory becomes rooted in the materiality of the South Eleuthera landscape. When read side‐by‐side, the archaeological and contemporary social stratigraphy of South Eleuthera illustrate this historical landscape's ongoing site formation and the ways in which community members use the memoryscape as a tool for community building and local advocacy.

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“…5 Furthermore, many distinguished theorists who, based on their own practice, tried to determine the most characteristic features of oral history show that it is more appropriate to describe oral history as a research practice. This approach is supported by oral history authors who mainly rely on their own experience of conducting interviews (including Passerini, 1987Passerini, , 1996Portelli, 1991Portelli, , 1997Portelli, , 2003Portelli, , 2011Portelli, , 2017Thompson, 1978;Thomson, 2011).…”

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Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context

Gałęziowski

Kaźmierska

2022

Current Sociology

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This article compares research and analytical approaches with biographical materials in the fields of biographical research in sociology and oral history practised by a historian. The reflection is based on the experience of long-term cooperation between biographical sociologists and oral historians in the Polish research context. These contacts have created a space for the fruitful exchange of experiences in the field as well as for strengthening the researchers’ distinctiveness and disciplinary identity. It also makes it possible to identify various concerns, both mutual and individual, for each research field. The main objective of this article is to share perspectives, highlight the similarities and differences between the two disciplines, and to show concerns related to the practice of oral history and biographical research, especially those close to the boundaries between the two approaches when they use the same tool, that is, the autobiographical narrative interview. The first section of the article focuses on the specifics of each approach. It then describes the different results of the common research practice and their consequences in relation to anonymising, archiving and reanalysing the data. Ethical issues are embedded into the whole course of our argument.

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Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class

Cited by 49 publications

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Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research

Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research

2 Materializing Memory and Building Community: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology of a Nineteenth‐Century Bahamian Plantation

Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context

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