Oral History Off the Record

Foreword; Steven High Introduction: Toward an Ethnography of Practice; Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki PART I: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFETIME OF LISTENING Section Introduction: Henry Greenspan 1. From California to Kufr Nameh and Back: Reflections on Forty Years of Feminist Oral History; Sherna Berger Gluck 2. "On" and "Off" the Record in Shifting Times and Circumstances; Julie Cruikshank and Tatiana Argounova 3. Politics and Praxis in Canadian Working-Class Oral History; Joan Sangster PART II: ENCOUNTERS IN VULNERABILITY, FAMILIARITY, AND FRIENDSHIP Section Introduction: Hourig Attarian 4. The Vulnerable Listener; Martha Norkunas 5. Listen and Learn: Familiarity and Feeling in the Oral History Interview; Alan Wong 6. Going Places: Helping Youth with Refugee Experiences Take Their Stories Public; Elizabeth Miller 7. Not Just Another Interviewee: Befriending a Holocaust Survivor; Stacey Zembrzycki PART III: THE INTERSECTION OF ETHICS AND POLITICS Section Introduction: Leyla Neyzi 8.I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians - "For the Record"; Pamela Sugiman 9. Third Parties in 'Third Spaces': Reflecting on the Role of the Translator in Oral History Interviews with Iraqi Diasporic Women; Nadia Jones-Gailani 10. "If you told me you wanted to talk about the '60s, I wouldn't have called you back": Reflections on Collective Memory and the Practice of Oral History; Nancy Janovicek 11. The Ethical Murk of Using Testimony in Oral Historical Research in South Africa; Monica Eileen Patterson PART IV: CONSIDERING SILENCE Section Introduction: Erin Jessee 12. Toward an Ethics of Silence? Negotiating Off-the-Record Events and Identity in Oral History; Alexander Freund 13. The Heart of Activism in Colombia: Reflections on Activism and Oral History Research in a Conflict Area; Luis van Isschot 14. "I don't fancy history very much": Reflections on Interviewee Recruitment and Refusal in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Anna Sheftel Afterword; Alessandro