Access and Mobility in Milton Keynes: An Inclusive Design History where Urban Planning Ideals and Design Intent Meet Disability Politics by Rachael Luck

“…Prompted by the recollection at interview that people with disabilities were encouraged to live in Milton Keynes because it was accessible, the foundations of this claim are explored through walkabouts, oral histories and documentary evidence. The study reveals ‘ease of movement and access’ as one of Milton Keynes’ planning goals and The Open University as the location for foundational arguments that shaped the social construction of disability. …”
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Access and Mobility in Milton Keynes: An Inclusive Design History where Urban Planning Ideals and Design Intent Meet Disability Politics by Rachael Luck

“…Prompted by the recollection at interview that people with disabilities were encouraged to live in Milton Keynes because it was accessible, the foundations of this claim are explored through walkabouts, oral histories and documentary evidence. The study reveals ‘ease of movement and access’ as one of Milton Keynes’ planning goals and The Open University as the location for foundational arguments that shaped the social construction of disability. …”
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Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach by Millard, D, Agulnik, P, Armstrong, N, Fees, C, Hall, J, Kennard, D, Leach, J

“…Material drawn from oral histories and witness seminars reflects the remarkably unstructured style of working on the Phoenix Unit and the enduring influence of Mandelbrote and fellow consultant Benn Pomryn’s styles of leadership. …”

The productivity of political imprisonment: stories from Rhodesia by Alexander, J

“…A focus on the writings and oral histories of political prisoners reveals a remarkable range of imagination and practice within the tight embrace of a hostile state, and shows also its post-colonial reverberations. …”

Making lives under closure : birth and medicine in Palestine's waiting zones by Wick, Livia

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The “Conversion” of Anthony Obinna to Mormonism: Elective Affinities, Socio-Economic Factors, and Religious Change in Postcolonial Southeastern Nigeria by David Dmitri Hurlbut

“…This article bases its conclusions on a close reading of oral histories, personal papers, and correspondence housed at the LDS Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and L. …”
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Technauriture as an Educational Tool in South Africa by Russell H. Kaschula

“…The process of orality as allowed for through, for example oral histories, music, poetry and story-telling, and how it interacts with the recording process facilitated through modern technology, as well as the return of the oral material via technology in educational and archival circles is further explored in this article. …”
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How do traumatic Shoah-witness testimonies fit into German History Education? by Katalin Eszter Morgan

“…The challenges of using such oral histories can be understood as those that clash with the non-discursively organised knowledge in pursuit of truth (verifiable facts) by means of what is traditionally considered historical evidence.…”
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Review of "Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics" by V. Jo Hsu (The Ohio State University Press) by Stacey Park

“…Hsu recognizes the ways pervasive narratives like the model minority myth have imbued the meaning of Asian American belonging with capitalist, heteronormative, ableist, racist, and patriarchal notions. Exploring oral histories, visual representations, essays, and numerous other forms of rhetoric, Hsu engages in “diasporic listening,” a method that unpacks how QTAPI individuals have wrestled with these pervasive narratives and found ways of redefining their belonging. …”
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Identidades y Alianzas: El movimiento chileno de las Trabajadoras de Casa Particular durante la Guerra Fria by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

“…Drawing on archival sources, as well as oral histories with the movement’s leaders, this article deepens our understanding of household workers from the perspective of labor and gender history.…”
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Jagdish, Son of Ahmad: Dalit Religion and Nominative Politics in Lucknow by Joel Lee

“…Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, the sanitation labour castes of Lucknow radically altered their nominative practices, replacing Islamicate personal names with names in a Hindu style, and abandoning the caste title Lal Begi in favor of the surname Valmiki. Based on oral histories and ethnographic research with the Valmiki community in Lucknow, the article presents and evaluates evidence for how and why this transformation took place. …”
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Checking Rights by Stewart Baker, Sue Kunda

“…Material types covered include book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, student papers, electronic theses and dissertations, research data sets, historical and archival materials, and oral histories. Underlying issues such as copyright ownership, work made for hire, and the legal definition of publication are also discussed. …”
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A recommendation to the SSH community: Take a linguist on board by Jeannine Beeken

“…We provide examples of how computational linguistics contribute to and facilitate the mining and analysis of oral or textual material, for example (transcribed) interviews or oral histories, and show how free open source (OS) tools can be used very easily to gain a quick overview of the key features of text, which can be further exploited as useful metadata. …”
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Narrating Arab American History: The Peddling Thesis by Charlotte Karem Albrecht

“…Becoming American centered the voices of first- and second-generation Arab Americans through Naff's extensive use of oral histories. In large part due to Naff's work, pack peddling has had a central place in Arab American historical narratives as being the key to the early Syrian immigrants' integration into US society. …”
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Difficult folk?: A political history of social anthropology by Mills, D

“…Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds. …”

The UX University by Tony Sampson

“…Referring to imagery and oral histories from the student movement, experiences of these protests appear to comprise of contagious collective action, joyful encounters, rebellious optimism, riotous anger, violence, and a certain nostalgia for historical student movements. …”
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Going Primitive: The Ethics of Indigenous Rights Activism in Contemporary Jharkhand by Uday Chandra

“…To answer these questions, this paper analyzes the oral histories of three leading indigenous rights activists in Jharkhand. …”
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From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans by Robert White

“…This paper draws on three different research methodologies available to social scientists ‒ counts of events that inform quantitative analyses, intensive interviews/oral histories, and visual sociology ‒ and argues that a multi-method approach will provide a better understanding of the dynamics of “resistance” in Ireland and, more generally, social protest.…”
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Traditional Polar Transportation Seen from Within the Culture by Tero Mustonen

“…This paper explores cultural narratives and oral histories related to two examples of traditional northern transport – long seal hunting journeys in the Baltic region, and nomadic reindeer travel in northeastern Siberia. …”
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From First to First: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color First-Generation Faculty and Administrator Narratives of Intersectional Marginality and Mattering as Communal Praxis by Rican Vue

“…Narrative analysis examining nine Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) FGF/A oral histories reveal how stories of mattering and intersectional marginality are sites of communal praxis that aim to dislodge systems of power, including racism, classism, and patriarchy. …”
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