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60 years after the end of the Second World War former forced laborers were interviewed in Russia. Which discursive patterns are found in their memories? Which emotions prevail and why? What kind of role does gender play? Which kind of psychological resources were disposable to these people? The book offers deep insight into the social and individual dynamics of totalitarian regimes. Among the results of the study is the observation that there exists a continuity from the USSR to contemporary Russia that is reflected in the book's title: stigma and silence.

Forced labor. --- Oral history.

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"For all its orality, oral history has a long-standing, closely entwined relationship with writing. Sound Writing considers the interplay between sound recordings and written literature, looking back to antiquity while focusing on the nineteenth- to the twenty-first centuries. It also refers to a dream of sound writing itself, enabling voices to reach readers directly, cutting out the need for authorial mediation. Oral histories are nevertheless actively mediated, often turned into and received as written texts. There can be value in transforming spoken oral histories in print or on screen, not least in order to make them 'readable' for wider audiences. Indeed, such re-creations can be worthy and wonderful works of scholarship and art--and this book explores a wide range of different forms and media (like the polyphonic novel, and hyperlinked websites) which can most effectively convey speakers' narratives on their own terms--but there is also, always the danger of speakers' voices being distorted or lost in the process of mediation. This book examines how oral histories are co-created, by speakers, by authors, and also by readers. It considers how oral history can inform our understandings of authorship and reading, to reconceive and query their potential as creative, multiple, collective, and activist. Finally, it reflects on the role of authorship in the academy"--

Oral history --- Oral biography --- Aural history

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Nostalgiefilter aus, Forschungsbrille auf: Wenn Fans zu Forschenden werden, sind Grenzüberschreitungen inklusive. Citizen Science ermöglicht diesen Seiten- und Perspektivwechsel, der sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch in der Bürger:innenschaft zu einem produktiven Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch führt. Unter dem Titel #KultOrtDUS arbeiten Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gemeinsam mit Bürger:innen an dem Aufbau eines Archivs der Medienkulturgeschichte Düsseldorfs. Düsseldorf als Zentrum von Punkmusik, New Wave und Aktionskunst fungiert dabei als urbanen Forschungsfeld, auf dem die Disziplin der "Citizen Science" wissenschaftspraktisch ausprobiert wird. Die Publikation fasst erste Ergebnisse dieses Forschungsprojekts zusammen, indem sie sich auf die Spurensuche zwischen Fans, Prosumer:innen, Bürger:innen und Urban Legends begibt und Perspektiven der Citizen Science- an die Fanforschung anknüpft. Den wissenschaftlichen Meta-Diskurs begleitet ein illustrativ-experimenteller Ansatz, der das kreative Potenzial aus der Forschung im Umfeld von Citizen Science sichtbar macht. When fans become researchers, crossing boundaries is part of it. Citizen science makes it possible to change sides and perspectives, which can lead to productive exchanges of knowledge and experience in scholarship and society. This volume discusses the possibilities and limits of citizen science in media and cultural studies, and is the first to bring together the two disciplines of citizen science and fan research.

Citizen science. --- fan research. --- oral history. --- urban legends.

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This volume contains extensive professional, conceptual, and social-biographical interviews with experts of a special kind: actors of the second hierarchy who were responsible for GDR history propaganda and who had a lot of influence and impact. These interviews, which were conducted about 25 years ago, testify to an epoch and help to explain how history propaganda worked as a system. Zeithistorische Experteninterviews aus drei unterschiedlichen DDR-Forschungsprojekten werden in diesem Band zusammengeführt. Diese Projekte der Jahre 1997 bis 2004, zum Zusammenhang von Aktivistenbewegung und Geschichtspropaganda, zur Entstehung und Ausformung einer sozialistischen wissenschaftlichen Geschichtsdidaktik und zur geheimen Geschichtsbewusstseinsforschung beim ZK der SED, haben Archiv- und Interviewforschung miteinander verbunden. Die Frage nach der Konstituierung einer spezifischen Praxis gibt allen Interviews einen gemeinsamen Horizont. Wie wird man zum Propagandisten einer Geschichtsideologie, die gleichsam über Nacht wirksam gemacht werden soll und sich dabei in Gegensatz zu bisherig und in engster Nachbarschaft dominierenden Geschichtsauffassungen setzt? Welche Voraussetzungen und begünstigenden Strukturen lassen sich erkennen? Wie gewinnt man kluge und kreative Menschen für diese Praxis und vermag deren Loyalität zu erhalten? Diese Fragen führen nicht nur in immer wieder aktuelle Konfliktsituationen in vielen Weltgegenden, in denen strukturell Ähnliches geschieht. Sie erklären in einem einzelnen Aspekt auch das Phänomen der zwar schwankenden, aber bis zum plötzlichen Kollaps doch relativ stabilen Diktatur, die sich nicht hinreichend nur mit polizeilicher Gewalt oder sowjetischer Besatzungsmacht erklären lässt.

Propaganda, East German. --- GDR. --- interviews. --- oral history. --- propaganda. --- public history.

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This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.

Social history. --- Russia --- Europe, Eastern --- Soviet Union --- Europe --- Oral history. --- Social History. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Oral History. --- History. --- History --- 1492-. --- Romania --- Vama Veche (Romania) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions