We Are More Than Paperless People: Reflections on Creating Spaces, Narratives and Change with Undocumented Communities by Maria del Cielo Mendez, Jennifer Ayala, Kimberly Rojas

“…In this piece, we share some insights gleaned from oral histories of immigrant organizers involved in New Jersey state campaigns for access to higher education, weaving them with scholarly personal narratives (Nash & Viray, 2013) from the authors on their own youth organizing and/or experience working in an undocumented student support center. …”
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Biaohuis (标会) in Singapore during the 1960s to 1980s: a solution forgotten by Soh, Zen

“…The dearth of scholarly research on the biaohui in Singapore makes this study heavily reliant on primary sources such as newspaper reports and oral histories conducted by the author. Key areas for investigation include why the biaohui had a high rate of female participation, why the institution seemingly peaked in the 1970s, and why it showed signs of decline as quickly as the 1980s. …”
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Catching colds with Canguilhem: culturing relations with Common Cold viruses by Greenhough, B

“…Drawing out how the lively materialities of both humans and viruses shape human experience of viral infection, the analysis focuses on written and oral histories of the UK’s Common Cold research Unit (CCU), associated scientific papers and correspondence between 1961 and 1965, and press cuttings and visitors’ books from the CCU archives, in order to offer multiple readings of the relationship between humans and cold viruses at this site. …”

Manifesting Rights on Cloth: Regalia and Relations on the Northwest Coast by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

“…Women’s artistic productions embody long-held technical and aesthetic knowledge connected to oral histories and cultural practices. Restoring Indigenous perspectives connecting tangible and intangible cultural heritage counterbalances the aesthetic emphasis that has dominated Northwest Coast art history.…”
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Women in Microwaves: Rhonda Franklin by Allison Marsh

“…The articles are based on oral histories with the subject, conducted in conjunction with the IEEE History Center and deposited online with the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.…”
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Invisible Mediators: Interpreters of German Occupied Greece (1941–1944) by Nadia Georgiou

“…Using data collected from oral histories gathered as part of the digital archive project by the Free University of Berlin, and the written testimonials provided by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies, this study focuses on the underexplored role of interpreters in German Occupied Greece (1941–1944). …”
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Killing Ebola: The Militarization of US Aid in Liberia by Calcagno, D

“…This piece, through an analysis of primary interviews; oral histories of diplomats, military officers, aid workers, doctors, and Ebola treatment personnel; official documents; and other scholarly work undertakes an examination of the effects of the US’ militarized response. …”

Medical therapeutic itineraries of women with breast cancer diagnosis affiliated to the People's Health Insurance in San Luis Potosí, central Mexico by Luz María Tejada-Tayabas, Liseth Amell Salcedo, Joel Monárrez Espino

“…We used an ethnographic approach based on oral histories of 12 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the year prior to the first meeting. …”
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Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America by Constanza Monterrubio-Solís, Antonia Barreau, José Tomás Ibarra

“…We used mixed methods that included passive and participant observation, focus groups, free lists, food diaries, oral histories, and calendars in Mapuche communities from the Chilean Andes, and Tzotzil communities from Chiapas, Mexico. …”
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Receptivity, Simultaneity: The Thin Red Line as Ecological Cinematic Poesis by Paul W. Burch

“…This cinematic bearing emerges in a new way following Malick's return to Hollywood, where a combination of factors spur the emergence of a radical Emersonian practice of cinematic receptivity. I draw on oral histories, and the film itself, to demonstrate how Malick's creative process consistently tends towards an ethos of poverty. …”
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The rise of a raiding state: Makaba II’s Ngwaketse, c. 1780-1824 by Fred Morton

“…Research is based on a correlation of oral histories, settlement locations, initiation and totemic lists, topographical and Google earth surveys, and field surveys and site mapping in parts of northeastern Gangwaketse and the Kanye area.…”
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Ninety-Eight Atheists: Atheism among the Non-Elite in Twentieth Century Britain by Matt Sheard

“…This study attempts to contribute to the remedy of this omission by considering autobiographies and oral histories of non-elite atheists between 1890 and 1980. …”
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Shadow Work: Architecting While Black in British Guiana by Michelle Joan Wilkinson

“…I place Wilkinson’s built work and its surviving archive of bookkeeping ledgers, letters, photographs, and architectural drawings in conversation with material from national archives in Guyana and England, adding oral histories from family members. White architects stationed in British Guiana and the Caribbean reported back to England about the “skilled craftsmen” (carpenters and building contractors) that they observed. …”
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Misunderstanding Familiar Objects in an Imagined Future: A Critical Method for Discovery by Kiersten Thamm

“…But the researcher is only familiar with two of these objects, and so tries to deduce the function of the remaining objects via their materials and by consulting oral histories from their era of origin. Through naïve misunderstanding, the researcher reveals often overlooked cultural norms and histories of extraction, manufacturing, and use. …”
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Die Instabilität queerer Raumpraxis by Christian Haid, Lukas Staudinger

“…Sie sprechen exemplarisch über die Diskothek Lipstick, die Deutsche Oper als schwuler Treffpunkt, den Frauenbuchladen Lilith, das feministische Archiv FFBIZ und die Klappe im Preußenpark. Diese Oral Histories stellen die Orte den Stimmen der Protagonist*innen in collagenhaften Audio-Features gegenüber. …”
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Wounding and Healing: dealing with difference in Christian narratives of migrant women in East London since the 1980s by Garnett, J, Harris, A

“…Setting oral histories conducted with a group of female Christian migrants to East London from various backgrounds and different stages in the life cycle alongside interviews with male migrants and non-migrant women, this article seeks to explore the relationship between gender, mainstream religious affiliation and the negotiation of the migratory experience. …”

A ‘Cultural Cold War’? by Woolgar, M

“…Drawing on contemporary publications, oral histories and archival documents, the article incorporates views ‘from below’ into an account of what became a vibrant cultural force. …”

The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Coastal Adaptation Priorities: The Pamunkey Indian Reservation by Nicole S. Hutton, Thomas R. Allen

“…Priorities and strategies were spatially referenced using maps of potential sea level rise for 2040, 2060, and 2080, input into a resilience matrix to identify benchmarks for each phase of disaster resilience building, and contextualized with oral histories. Results highlight increased immediacy to protect housing and heritage sites along the shoreline as well as maintain access to the Reservation. …”
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Steam, motor and electric mills on the territory of the present-day Municipality of Čukarica in the period 1918-1948 by Lukić Nenad

“…The work is chronologically limited to the period from 1918 to 1948, and has been produced by compiling, cross-referencing and systematizing several types of historical sources, such as original archival materials, newspaper articles, oral histories and fieldwork alongside, of course, literature of relevance to the topic. …”
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Disco demise: navigating cultural conflict and identity in Singapore's anti-yellow culture campaign by Chua, Qi Ting

“…Supported by an analysis of newspaper articles, oral histories, and scholarly publications, this study argues that the rise and eventual decline of discos offer a unique lens through which to examine how Singapore navigated the complex interplay between maintaining traditional values and embracing Western modernity during a pivotal era of change.…”
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