Journal Articles by Alexander Freund
Tempo E Argumento, Mar 5, 2015
Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2015
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Oral History Review, 2014
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NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WON THE 2016 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ARTICLE AWARD
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Storytelling—in the form of public talk about oneself—has become a new social phenomenon over the past quarter century. The case of StoryCorps illuminates how autobiographical (often confessional) storytelling in public comes out of the simultaneous democratization and neoliberalization of Western society since the 1970s. The storytelling phenomenon, which frequently aligns itself with (or appropriates) oral history, reinforces neoliberal values of competitive individualism and thus depoliticizes public discourse. Oral historians, rather than embracing storytelling, need to investigate it as a historically situated social phenomenon that often undercuts the epistemological, methodological, ethical, and political aims of oral history.
Words and Silences, Jan 1, 2011
Abstract In this article, I describe experiences with publishing an online oral history journal. ... more Abstract In this article, I describe experiences with publishing an online oral history journal. In particular, I describe turning the journal of the Canadian Oral History Association into an electronic or ejournal (www. oralhistoryforum. ca). After some background information, I ...
Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, Jan 1, 2010
This article describes, explains, and applies the three-generational interview method and the con... more This article describes, explains, and applies the three-generational interview method and the concept of communicative memory to a case study about a Canadian family. Members of three generations were interviewed, both individually and in a group setting, about the Oma's ( ...
Historical Social Research, Jan 1, 2009
Oral History als prozess-generierte Daten«. This article describes how to use (archived) oral his... more Oral History als prozess-generierte Daten«. This article describes how to use (archived) oral histories as process-generated data. It explains how social scientists may locate and use such data in an informed way and assess the qualities of such data systematically and effectively. The article describes oral history as a method and as form of source or data; it surveys aspects of oral history that affect data analysis and interpretation, including project design, recording technology, interview strategies and interviewer skills/training, interviewee-interviewer relationship, the dialogic construction of the source, legal and ethical aspects, summaries and transcriptions, the orality of the sources and the importance of listening to sources. The article then problematizes the use of oral histories as evidence by discussing subjectivity, memory, retrospectivity, and narrativity and exploring the meanings, values, and validity of this kind of data.
Social History/Histoire Sociale, Jan 1, 2006
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Jan 1, 2002
BC Studies, Jan 1, 1995
O NE OF THE MAIN objectives of this paper is to challenge the existing dichotomy in historical wr... more O NE OF THE MAIN objectives of this paper is to challenge the existing dichotomy in historical writing between objective and subjective experiences. By subjectivity we mean people s dreams, fantasies, desires, hopes, expectations, fears, anxieties, and emotions. Until recently, historians have concerned themselves with amassing facts about past realities. The underlying claim has been that historians can reconstruct the past in an objective, and therefore true, way. Such an approach obscures the fact that people s perceptions of reality are in fact all we can recover of the past. For this reason, Elizabeth Tonkin refers to history as the "representations of pastness." 1 In order to examine these perceptions, we must pay attention to the ways in which they are articulated. By analysing how historical actors make sense of the events they experienced, we can gain a fuller portrait of how history is shaped both by events and emotions.
The Oral History Review, Jan 1, 1996
O NE OF THE MAIN objectives of this paper is to challenge the existing dichotomy in historical wr... more O NE OF THE MAIN objectives of this paper is to challenge the existing dichotomy in historical writing between objective and subjective experiences. By subjectivity we mean people s dreams, fantasies, desires, hopes, expectations, fears, anxieties, and emotions. Until recently, historians have concerned themselves with amassing facts about past realities. The underlying claim has been that historians can reconstruct the past in an objective, and therefore true, way. Such an approach obscures the fact that people s perceptions of reality are in fact all we can recover of the past. For this reason, Elizabeth Tonkin refers to history as the "representations of pastness." 1 In order to examine these perceptions, we must pay attention to the ways in which they are articulated. By analysing how historical actors make sense of the events they experienced, we can gain a fuller portrait of how history is shaped both by events and emotions.
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Journal Articles by Alexander Freund
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE FROM THE PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (SEE URL LINK ABOVE)
Storytelling—in the form of public talk about oneself—has become a new social phenomenon over the past quarter century. The case of StoryCorps illuminates how autobiographical (often confessional) storytelling in public comes out of the simultaneous democratization and neoliberalization of Western society since the 1970s. The storytelling phenomenon, which frequently aligns itself with (or appropriates) oral history, reinforces neoliberal values of competitive individualism and thus depoliticizes public discourse. Oral historians, rather than embracing storytelling, need to investigate it as a historically situated social phenomenon that often undercuts the epistemological, methodological, ethical, and political aims of oral history.
Books by Alexander Freund
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE FROM THE PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (SEE URL LINK ABOVE)
Storytelling—in the form of public talk about oneself—has become a new social phenomenon over the past quarter century. The case of StoryCorps illuminates how autobiographical (often confessional) storytelling in public comes out of the simultaneous democratization and neoliberalization of Western society since the 1970s. The storytelling phenomenon, which frequently aligns itself with (or appropriates) oral history, reinforces neoliberal values of competitive individualism and thus depoliticizes public discourse. Oral historians, rather than embracing storytelling, need to investigate it as a historically situated social phenomenon that often undercuts the epistemological, methodological, ethical, and political aims of oral history.