Oral History as an Autobiographical Practice

Summerfield, Penny

doi:10.4000/miranda.8714

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“…Moreover, oral history provides a way of accessing each scholar's perceived influences and the way that individual intellectuals understand and perform their own intellectual biographies. 41 An early example of this kind of approach can be found in the 2005 UN Intellectual History Project volume, UN Voices. Therein, Thomas Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij and Richard Jolly used interviews with seventy-three UN professionals as the basis for narrative structure that combined individual voices with 'the main themes of international cooperation debated within the UN system'.…”

Section: Taking Oral History Seriously As Autobiographical Practicementioning

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Women's International Thought in the Twentieth‐Century Anglo‐American Academy: Autobiographical Reflection, Oral History and Scholarly Habitus

Dunstan¹

2021

Gender & History

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Methodologies of textual and linguistic analysis have long held sway in Anglo‐American practices of intellectual history. Such approaches tend to decouple the ideas being traced from the human subject, or scholar, producing the thought. Taking the lead from the rich theorising work done in feminist, gender, race and cultural histories, this article asks what changes in our understanding of intellectual histories of international thought when we connect the lived and bodily realities of the human subjects producing the ideas to the ideas themselves. In so doing, the article makes a case for the importance of fleshing out what the author calls ‘scholarly habitus’ and suggests the potential utility of oral history as a methodology for reconstructing ‘scholarly habitus’. The article will draw upon an oral history archive comprised of twenty interviews conducted with senior women International Relations scholars from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to flesh out this argument. The article argues that oral history, as a medium for autobiographical practice, can reveal aspects of how gender, race and class shaped the scholarly practice and career trajectories of these women, as well as shed light on the historical dynamics of the discipline of International Relations as a whole.

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Section: Taking Oral History Seriously As Autobiographical Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Women's International Thought in the Twentieth‐Century Anglo‐American Academy: Autobiographical Reflection, Oral History and Scholarly Habitus

Dunstan¹

2021

Gender & History

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“…The phase of building a historical consciousness to change the cognition of society towards an object or event of history consists of several stages, namely: Inculcating history as fact, history as a series of causes, history as complexity and History as interpretation [7]. Based on these elements, a research questionnaire for measuring initial target knowledge is prepared as a closed question with a choice of multilevel answers.…”

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Historical Gossip As Social Engineering To Build Historical Awareness

Asnawi¹,

Riyani²,

Akob³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the the 3rd International Conference on Advance &Amp; Scientific Innovation

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The main objective of social engineering trough historical gossip is to produce new knowledge, attitude and new historical awareness to Manyak Payed community of Aceh Tamiang Regency. This effort needs to be done to strengthen national integration. This technique is applied with historical gossip media on the local history object that intersects with the national history of Indonesia. The aforementioned Historical Object is the Expansion of Majapahit and a figure named Gajah Mada in Aceh Tamiang. The social engineering strategy is performed in two forms namely Normative-Reeducative and Persuasive Strategy which is presented as Acehnese art performances with programmed scenarios and focus group discussions. The target is the junior high school students in eight different schools in the Manyak Payed Subdistrict, Aceh Tamiang. Social engineering strategies utilize historical gossip of sites and myths related to the tomb which is claimed as the tomb of Gajah Mada in Kemasjidan Village, Manyak Payed Subdistrict, Aceh Tamiang. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the results of the research show that there is an increase in historical awareness of the targeted community, with changes in knowledge, attitudes and historical perceptions. Such knowledge, attitudes and perceptions affect the ability of this society to think as historians have analyzed the past.

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