Oral History Theory

Abrams, Lynn

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“…Of central importance in life history studies, is the ability to capture the uniqueness of each narrative and the wealth of meanings embedded within these accounts. This of course includes the narrator's subjectivity in terms of how s/he makes sense of their life events (Abrams, 2010). Life history approaches embrace the voices of the marginalised, exploring the fluidity of experiences and subjectivities as well as the interaction with the wider environment (Armitage and Gluck, 1998).…”

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Dean

Ford

2017

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article explores gender and entrepreneurial leadership, notably the meanings female entrepreneurs ascribe to notions of entrepreneurial leadership. Drawing from interviews with female business owners, the article questions the dominant hegemonic masculine entrepreneurial leadership model as well as that reportedly associated with women. Research findings illuminate the fluidity and variability of the entrepreneurial leadership construct. Our feminist poststructural lens and critical leadership stance adds new insight into the multiple subjectivities of entrepreneurs and surfaces contradiction and tension that shape the very sense of their entrepreneurial selves. By questioning accepted knowledge, this research offers new perspectives on the multiple realities of entrepreneurial leadership, which should be heeded by policy makers, academics and practitioners alike.

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Dean

Ford

2017

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…In the words of Abrams, "Oral history is a dialogic process; it is a conversation in real time between the interviewer and the narrator, and then between the narrator and what we might call external discourses or culture" (Abrams, 2016, p. 19, cited in Spaskovska, 2017. One could add that it is also a dialogue between the narrator and the particular reader, situated within the past, present and future voices of all the involved people -both those who are remembered, those who are interviewed, those who do the narration and those for whom the story is told.…”

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“…In Ngunjiri, Hernandez and Chang's view, this context is necessarily complex, multilayered and often brings in memories of the relationships among people with opposing views. However, I would like to go one step further in order to claim, like Abrams (Abrams, 2016), that memories and history are always dialogic, that they are contested and the "context" cannot be finalized by the presentation of an auto-ethnographic study. The very act of its writing and publication is an act of a transgression and a further leap into potentially risky transformations of the intersubjective dynamic.…”

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The Golden cage: Growing up in the Socialist Yugoslavia

Marjanović-Shane

2018

Dialogic Pedagogy Journal

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“…Oral history can certainly be used to try and fill this gap, but it necessarily imposes a retrospective frame on testimony, generating complex interactions between personal and collective memories, especially when the experience in question has become mythologized in public history, as the mass unemployment of the 1980s undoubtedly has (Abrams, 2010;Portelli, 1997;Samuel & Thompson, 1990).…”

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The Emotional Economy of Unemployment

Elliott

Lawrence

2016

Sage Open

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Between May 1978 and December 1983, the sociologist Ray Pahl conducted seven extensive interviews with a couple from Sheppey that he called "Linda" and "Jim." These not only informed a key chapter in Pahl's classic book Divisions of Labour but also evolved into a uniquely intimate account of how a family used to "getting by" (though never "affluent") coped with the hardships and indignities of long-term reliance on welfare benefits. Perhaps inevitably, fascinating aspects of Linda and Jim's testimony were left unused in Divisions of Labour, primarily because they were marginal to Pahl's principal aim of demonstrating how the state welfare system could trap a family in poverty. We deliberately retain the narrative, case study approach of Pahl's treatment, but shift our focus to the strategies that Linda and Jim adopted to cope with the emotional and psychological challenges of life at the sharp end of the early 1980s recession. How they retained a strong orientation toward the future, how they resisted internalizing the stigmatization associated with welfare dependency in 1980s Britain, and how their determination to fight "the system" ultimately led them to make choices in harmony with the logic of the New Right's free market agenda.

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Oral History Theory

Cited by 142 publications

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Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

Discourses of entrepreneurial leadership: Exposing myths and exploring new approaches

The Golden cage: Growing up in the Socialist Yugoslavia

The Emotional Economy of Unemployment

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