European University Institute Library

Practicing oral history with military and war veterans, Sharon D. Raynor

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Practicing oral history with military and war veterans

bibliography

1343947589

Sharon D. Raynor

Practicing oral history

"Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with men and women of recent wars and military conflicts. The book provides a structured methodology for building interest and trust among veterans to conduct interviews, design oral history projects, archive and use these oral history interviews. It includes background on the evolution of veterans oral history, the nuts and bolts of interviewing, ethical guidelines, procedures and the overall value of veterans oral history. The methodology emphasizes how memory evolves over the years - when a veteran becomes more distant from the events of war the experiences become individualized and personalized for each veteran based on location, time, place, and purpose of their service. The book also aims to improve understanding of the personal, ethical and psychological issues involved in listening compassionately to veterans' stories that may contain issues of trauma, gender, socio-economics, race, dis/ability and ethnicity. Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans is an invitation to community scholars, students, oral historians and families of veterans to actively participate in the oral history process and to embrace methodology that may help with designing and conducting oral history projects and interviewing war veterans"--, Provided by publisher

Section I: Introduction -- My Story -- Overview and Evolution of Military and Veterans Oral History -- Personal Connections to Veterans Oral History -- Section II: Issues Common in Veterans Oral History -- Best Practices and Ethical Guidelines -- Race, Ethnicity, Class, Dis/Ability and Gender in the Military [among Veterans] -- Information Classification: General -- Trust, Trauma and the Human Factor -- The Nature of Memory and Silence -- Section III: Conducting a Veterans Oral History Project -- Project Design and Preparation -- Recording Techniques -- Interviewing Techniques -- Interviewing War Veterans -- Section IV: After the Interview -- Transcribing and Archiving -- Using Veterans Oral History -- The Value of Veterans Oral History -- Reflections