Remembering Resistance, Forgetting Torture: Compromiso and Gender in Former Political Prisoners’ Oral History Narratives inPost-dictatorial Argentina

The symbiosis of oral history and agonistic memory: Voices of 68 and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland

“…One is able to identify a huge number of examples from right across the world where, in locations emerging from a period of conflict and trying to lay the foundations of a brighter future, oral history forms a central part of peacebuilding strategies (Humphrey 2002, Schaffer & Smith 2004, Bickford 2007, Hamber 2009. Examples from Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina, Sierra-Leone, and South Africa, to name but a few, all demonstrate the increasingly prevalent turn towards oral history as a fruitful mechanism to help chart the very complex post-conflict course in a diverse range of contexts and circumstances (Field 2011, Bouka 2013, Park 2013, Kaifala 2014, Wali 2018. That oral history has risen to such prominence in such difficult circumstances is to be understood by the distinctive characteristics it brings to how the past is handled.…”