Roots of Resistance and Resilience: Agroecology Tactics for Resettlement by Matthew DelSesto, Megan Donovan

“…An approach utilizing oral histories, participant obser­vation, and situation analysis revealed the need to connect macrolevel sociological perspectives on the environment to a spiritually informed under­standing of how people relate to food systems and agriculture in everyday life. …”
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Older Is Not Necessarily Better: Decolonizing Ifugao History through the Archaeology of the Rice Terraces by Stephen B. Acabado, Marlon M. Martin

“…This paradigm shift, supported by radiocarbon dating and ethnohistorical analysis, aligns more closely with local oral histories and portrays the Ifugao not as passive inheritors of tradition but as active participants in their history. …”
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The Role of Mathematics Teacher Education in Overcoming Narrow Neocolonial Views of Mathematics by Kay Owens

“…Data sources varied from records of first contact and later records, archaeology, oral histories, language analyses, lived experiences, memoirs, government documents, field studies, and previous research especially doctoral studies. …”
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Inalienable land? Lived experiences of ‘remembrement’ in a 1980s Normandy village by Georges-Picot, A

“…The policy transformed French agriculture, propelling it to global prominence, but it also catalyzed widespread social, cultural, and ecological disruptions. Oral histories reveal that the remembrement was not only a technical reform but also a deeply personal event, often marked by conflict and trauma. …”

Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969 by Hepworth, J

“…Drawing upon republican oral histories and written autobiography, this article elucidates how republican families – both literal and metaphorical – have alternately cohered and stabilised the movement. …”

Risk-Reduction, Coping, and Adaptation to Flood Hazards in Manitoba, Canada: Evidence from Communities in the Red River Valley by C. Emdad Haque, Jobaed Ragib Zaman, David Walker

“…Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews with key informants and obtaining oral histories from the locals, along with an examination of secondary official records and documents. …”
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Women and Ultramodern Buddhism in Australia by Anna Halafoff, Jayne Garrod, Laura Gobey

“…This paper draws on these sources, but primarily on more recent digital oral histories of prominent Buddhist women and men in Australia, recorded as part of the first stage of the Buddhist Life Stories of Australia project in 2014–2015. …”
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Object Investigation of Industrial Heritage: The Forging and Metallurgy Shop in Taipei Railway Workshop by Yu-Hsun Chen, Guan-Chen Chen, Ching-Tai Wu, Chi-Lin Lee, You-Rou Chen, Jun-Fu Huang, Kuo-Hung Hsiao, Jong-I Lin

“…The working conditions, including machine parts for train maintenance, manufacturing processes of parts, and the relationship between in-line on-site machines and tools, of the forging workshop before closing are restored, as based on the principles of machine manufacturing, literature, and retired workers’ oral histories. Finally, an in situ exhibition plan of the forging workshop is put forward based on the results of the object research.…”
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How librarians and firefighters built a special library in Champaign, Illinois, USA: a community informatics story by Claudia Grisales Bohorquez, Lian Ruan, Kate Williams

“…Data was collected through documentary revision, oral histories and semi-structured interviews. Deductive-inductive coding and constant comparative analysis was used in the analysis. …”
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Local-Level Flood Hazard Management in Canada: An Assessment of Institutional Structure and Community Engagement in the Red River Valley of Manitoba by Jobaed Ragib Zaman, C. Emdad Haque, David Walker

“…Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews and oral histories provided by local residents, in addition to analysis of secondary official records and documents. …”
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Hale Yılmaz, Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945 by Evren J. TURAN

“…Not focusing on the resistance or suppression of the Kemalist reforms, Yılmaz employs oral histories, letters, and archival data to reveal diverse reactions that did not simply fall into two polarizing choices of brutal resistance or absolute acceptance. …”
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Fragments of Home: Domestic Businesswomen and Collective Motherhood by Carriker, Bella Carmelita

“…The housing crisis in cities across the country specifically affects single mothers and children, yet these identities are rarely explicitly designed for; economically, systemically and architecturally. Collections of oral histories— from single mothers in my life who have experienced housing insecurity— illustrate the fragments which make up the feeling of home, the ways that architectural detail can reflect motherhood, the need to inherently examine both domesticity and labor. …”
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Stratigraphy and eruption history of maars in the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, California by Jessica L. Ball

“…Part of this period also coincides with indigenous inhabitation (<12,000 years BP), which suggests that oral histories of Pomo and other local tribes may contain descriptions of volcanic phenomena experienced by local residents of the CLVF. …”
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Transnational Debts: The Cultural Memory of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II by Birgit Däwes

“…Their experiences and memories—in oral histories, interviews, as well as in fiction and film—challenge the narrative of a glorious nation in unison, especially in light of the historical conflicts between American nationalism and Native American political sovereignty. …”
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Mobile sedentism? The Marakwet settlements of the Elgeyo Escarpment, north-western Kenya by David K. Kay

“…Combining archaeological/contemporary household survey data with local oral histories, this paper explores how the incremental movement of individual housing compounds has contributed to the gradual shift of Marakwet settlement across the landscape over the past two centuries. …”
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An extensible Web tool for the collection, sharing, and annotation of audio documents by Yang, Yang, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Like Water, We Re-Member: A Conceptual Model of Identity (Re)formation through Cultural Reclamation for Indigenous Peoples of Mexico in the United States by My Ngoc To, Ramona Beltrán, Annie Zean Dunbar, Miriam G. Valdovinos, Blanca-Azucena Pacheco, David W. Barillas Chón, Olivia Hunte, Kristina Hulama

“…Methods: The conceptual model arose from a ceremony-based, participatory, digital archiving project documenting Indigenous oral histories. The model is illustrated through case analysis of three Indigenous Mexican individuals living in the United States whose stories holistically represent the model’s components. …”
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Situating Hadis’ Occupation and Caste: Exclusionary Journey from Manual Workers to Sanitation Workers in India by K.M. Ziyauddin

“…The essay examines the exclusionary process deeply rooted due to the occupational association with sanitation, cleaning of toilets, and all work that is not carried out by other castes and communities. The oral histories of the Hadi community brought in by intensive fieldwork demonstrate how occupational association brings a different level of social status by changing the workplace. …”
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Sustainable Rural Development through Local Cultural Heritage Capitalization—Analyzing the Cultural Tourism Potential in Rural Romanian Areas: A Case Study of Hărman Commune of Bra... by Cătălina Ancuța, Ioan Sebastian Jucu

“…The study uses a mixed-method analysis combining quantitative and qualitative research (focus groups, interviews, oral histories, and personal conversions), participatory ethnographic observation, and logical framework analysis (LFA). …”
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Ponds and Wetlands Landscapes of Flood Management in the Cities of the Lower Yellow River Floodplain—The Case of Huaiyang, China by Lei Zhang, G. Mathias Kondolf

“…From local gazetteers, archives, oral histories, maps, and satellite images, we documented the historical landscapes of ponds and wetlands back to the 17th century in the historic city of Huaiyang on the lower Yellow River floodplain. …”
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