In OHR’s spring 2023 issue,scholar Estelle B. Freedman shares her findings from a macro-level analysis of oral history databases in order to analyze women’s memories and responses to sexual harassment and violence. Freedman’s research shows the potential of applying digital humanities tools for distance reading to the close reading of intimate details of oral histories. […]
In our upcoming issue of OHR (49.2), Pippa Virdee discusses how shifts in how oral history has been documented and shared impact our understanding of the partition of India and Pakistan in her article “Histories and Memories in the Digital Age of Partition Studies.” Today, the 75th anniversary of Partition, is an apt time to reflect […]
We ask authors of books reviewed in Oral History Review to answer 5 questions about why we should read their books. In our latest installment of the series, Florence Descamps discusses her book Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel. Simon-Olivier Gagnon’s review of Archiver la mémoire is now available online. What’s it about […]
This week, Benjamin Dangl finalizes his two-part post about the Taller de Historia Oral Andina and how a small group of Indigenous Bolivian activists have been using oral history to decolonize their collective past since 1983. In case you missed it, find his first post on the Andean Oral History Workshop here. By Benjamin Dangl […]
In the first of two installments, Benjamin Dangl writes about the Taller de Historia Oral Andina and how a small group of Indigenous Bolivian activists have been using oral history to decolonize their collective past since 1983. By Benjamin Dangl At the top of a winding street in La Paz, Bolivia, heading up from the […]
