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Paula Hamilton is Associate Professor in History at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She is co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History and co-editor of Public History Review.
Linda Shopes is a freelance editor and consultant and formerly a historian at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. She is Past President of the U.S. Oral History Association and co-editor of the series Studies in Oral History.
List of contents
Introduction Section I: Creating Heritage1: Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History / David Neufeld; 2: History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn; 3: Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia / Maria Nugent; 4: Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak; 5: Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums / Selma Thomas Section II: Recreating Identity and Community6: Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town / Sean Field; 7: Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow; 8: "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories / Senka Bo ic-Vrbancic; 9: Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez; 10: Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs and Veterans Reunions of the late Twentieth Century / Robert Jefferson Section III: Making Change11: Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration / Riki Van Boeschoten; 12: Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr; 13: Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Post-War Kosovo: The Albanian Community / Silvia Salvatici; 14: Seeing the Past, Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala Notes; Contributors
Summary
Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.
