OHR Special Issue on Ethics
The editorial team is delighted to announce that our special issue on ethics has launched online and will arrive in your mailboxes in a few weeks. We are exceptionally proud of the contributions from our authors, who crafted compelling essays drawn from their personal experiences as oral historians working in our sensitive field involving living, named subjects. We hope the articles will launch continuing conversations about how to responsibly navigate the relationships with our narrators, funders, archives, and publishers.
From the editors
We are pleased to share the table of contents to our hot off the digital presses Special Issue on Ethics (48.2). In the coming weeks, we will feature guest posts and interviews with many of the authors. We hope our fellow oral historians will use this issue as a springboard for continued discussions on what it means to ethically practice oral history.
“’Is Austria a Catholic Country?’: Trust and Intersubjectivity in Postconflict Northern Ireland,” by Dieter Reinisch
“Who Speaks for Baltimore: The Invisibility of Whiteness and the Ethics of Oral History Theater,” by Mary Rizzo
“Warm Distance: Grappling with Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism,” by Lana Dee Povitz
“Shifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm” by Liz H. Strong
“Publishing Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed—Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land after Two Decades of Decisions,” by Leslie McCartney, Ingrid Kritsch, and Sharon Snowshoe
“Organizational Sponsorship: An Ethical Framework for Community Oral History Projects,” by Kristi Girdharry
“A Necessary Tension: Editors, Editing, and Oral History for Social Justice,” by Ricia Chansky, Katrina Powell, and Đào X. Trần
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