Speech and Counterspeech: Language-in-use in Oral History Fieldwork

McMahan, Eva M.

doi:10.1093/ohr/15.1.185

The Oral History Review

1987

DOI: 10.1093/ohr/15.1.185

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Speech and Counterspeech: Language-in-use in Oral History Fieldwork

Eva M. McMahan

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“…The idea to gather and use primary sources to investigate both integration and migration experiences does not only have applications in migration and memory studies, but also in many other fields associated either with intersectional or discourse theories. By offering migrants and individuals a communication platform, the scholars enable them to express their side of the story, thus giving them the chance to create their own speech act (McMahan 1987). The latter is of great significance as it could be utilized by scholars to develop a better comprehension (e.g.…”

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Review: Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (eds.), <i>Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia</i>

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Migration has been a vital element of human histories, cultures, and civilizations. Although it poses a long-standing issue, migration studies have made significant progress only in recent decades. The combination of the progress in interdisciplinary pursuits and the popularization of postmodern thought proved to be enough to establish it as a discipline in the late 1990s (Greenwood and Hunt 2003). Since then, scholars have used different approaches and scopes of analysis to tackle the phenomenon, ranging from 'geographies of migration' to 'diasporas and transnationalism ' (Pisarevskaya et al. 2020). As Alejandro Portes (1997) predicted, the newly emerged pluralism contributed to the shift of focus from issues of governance to themes of families and gender in the twenty-first century. Academia and policymakers began to give more attention to the complexity of migration, thus leading to the increase of work on identity narratives, such as migrants and their descendants' dual identities (De Fina 2003; Jens and Carbaugh 2001). However, this change did not last long.Due to the increase of such events as the rise of neo-nationalist right-wing populism, terrorism, and the global increase of migration waves in recent years, the public discourse has returned to the preexisting practice of a collective equation. The narrative has shifted from asking the question of 'how?' and 'why?' to 'how can we stop it?' and 'where they are from?'. As a result, the migrants have become numbers and their stories irrelevant, the act of compassion has given way to depersonalization, and the popularity of the focus on the individual dimension has decreased. Amid this turn of events, scholars of migration studies have continued to further the field's progress through the formulation of more innovative and ambitious research. Among these, the publication, Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia, edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton, has stood out.The book constitutes one of the most comprehensive studies of diverse migrant memories in Australia since the 1950s, when Jean Martin compiled the life and integration stories of displaced

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Oral history for student empowerment: capturing students’ inner voices

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1993

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Speech and Counterspeech: Language-in-use in Oral History Fieldwork

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