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Oral history

  • Alexandra Chakov (author)
  • Tom Chang (author)
  • Henry Covey (author)
  • Taylor Dickson (author)
  • Sydney Goggins (author)
  • Nora Harris (author)
  • Sujash Purna (author)
  • Sydney Widell (author)
  • Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (author)
Chapter of: The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research(pp. 509–514)
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Title Oral history
ContributorAlexandra Chakov (author)
Tom Chang (author)
Henry Covey (author)
Taylor Dickson (author)
Sydney Goggins (author)
Nora Harris (author)
Sujash Purna (author)
Sydney Widell (author)
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0418.33
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0418/chapters/10.11647/obp.0418.33
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightAlexandra Chakov; Tom Chang; Henry Covey; Taylor Dickson; Sydney Goggins; Nora Harris; Sujash Purna; Sydney Widell; Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2025-02-25
Long abstract

This primer introduces readers to oral histories, focusing on the importance of both process and product, situating oral histories within a suite of other related methods, and considering the ethics and potential complications of the methodology.

Page rangepp. 509–514
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Contributors

Alexandra Chakov

(author)
Ph.D. Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tom Chang

(author)
Ph.D. Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Henry Covey

(author)
Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Taylor Dickson

(author)
Ph.D. Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sydney Goggins

(author)
Ph.D. Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nora Harris

(author)
Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sujash Purna

(author)
Ph.D. Student in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sydney Widell

(author)

Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

(author)
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison
References
  1. Gottschalk Druschke, C., M. Higgins, T. Dean, E. Booth, and R. Lave. 2022. ‘Storying the floods: Experiments in feminist flood futures’, Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place and Community, 22.
  2. Gottschalk Druschke, C., T. Dean, M. Higgins, M. Beaty, M., L. Henner, M. Higgins, R. Hosemann, J. Meyer, B. Sellers, S. Widell, and T. Woser. 2022. ‘Stories from the flood: Promoting healing and fostering policy change through storytelling, community literacy, and community-based learning’, Community Literacy Journal, 16.2.
  3. Grobman, L. et al. 2015. ‘Collaborative complexities: Co-authorship, voice, and African American rhetoric in oral history community literacy projects’, Community Literacy Journal, 9.2, pp. 1–25.
  4. Jackson, R.C. and D. Whitehorse DeLaune. 2019. ‘Decolonizing community writing with community listening: Story, transrhetorical resistance, and Indigenous cultural literacy activism’, Community Literacy Journal, 13.1, pp. 37–54.
  5. Riley Mukavetz, A.M. 2014. ‘Towards a cultural rhetorics methodology: Making research matter with multi-generational women from the Little Traverse Bay Band’, Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization, 5.1, p. 6.
  6. Texas After Violence Project. Documenting Narratives of Violence Trauma-Informed Interviewing for General Audiences, https://vimeo.com/430151906

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