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Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. Beyond Testimony and Trauma considers other ways to engage with survivors and their accounts based on insights gained from long-term oral history projects in a variety of contexts, including factory closures, industrial injury, eugenics and forced sterilization, the Holocaust, genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia, Argentinian torture camps, the Yugoslav Wars, and Jewish emigration from the Maghreb. The contributors, all innovators in the field of oral history, include Henry Greenspan who provides reflections from forty years of listening to Holocaust survivors as well as an insightful afterword. They demonstrate that – through deep listening, long-term relationship building, and collaborative research design – it is possible to move beyond the problematic aspects of “testimony” to shine light on the more nuanced lives of survivors of mass violence. In the process, they offer alternative approaches to the collection of oral history that will shake the foundations of current historiographical practice.

Oral history. --- Oral biography. --- Victims. --- Survival. --- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. --- Survival skills --- Persons --- Biography --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Methodology --- Montreal Life Stories Project

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This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their personal experiences with peace and conflict, tell what drove their peace engagement, and discuss the balance sought in the field between the cold dictates from academic rigor and the hot pursuit of peace, a desire for research to make a positive difference. Most of the chapters are interviews where one colleague interviews another. Some are self-reflective essays, while others are memorial essays written about a peace researcher who has passed away. Taken together, the book presents a lively picture of a thriving world-leading research environment and a wealth of conflicting or mutually reinforcing perspectives on war, violence, conflict, conflict management and resolution, negotiations and mediation, peacemaking, peace building, and the contested concept of peace. “The Oslo Stories is an indispensable source to the history of peace research.” Dr. Olav Njølstad, Director, Nobel Institute, Oslo

International relations --- International institutions --- Terrorism, armed struggle --- Peace research --- War and violence --- Peace building --- Conflict resolution --- PRIO --- PLO --- Oslo --- Life Stories --- Stein Tønnesson --- Stein Toennesson --- Stein Tonnesson

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How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany. She discusses areas such as quality of life as a motivation for migration, the role of banal nationalism in imaginaries, the dynamic subjective re-construction of Mexicanness, and the process of (imagined) »Germanisation«. Yolanda López García ultimately argues that individuals, as social agents, engage with and construct new emerging imaginaries, which may be viewed as important engines of social change.

Mexicans --- Social conditions. --- Germany --- Emigration and immigration. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Germany. --- Interculturalism. --- Latin America. --- Life Stories. --- Life. --- Lifestyle Migration. --- Mexican Migration. --- Migration. --- Sociology.

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The book focuses on german speaking catholic missionary sisters who came to South Africa after 1945. In three chapters (space of origin, convent space, missionary space) the life stories are interpreted as an “adventure with a rule”. The group portrait shows motivations, daily life and experiences of one of the last generations of missionary women. Das Buch stellt deutschsprachige katholische Missionarinnen, die seit 1945 in Südafrika tätig waren, in den Mittelpunkt. Entlang der drei Kapitel Herkunftsraum, Klosterraum und Missionsraum werden die Lebensgeschichten der Frauen als Erzählungen eines „regulierten Abenteuers“ interpretiert. Das daraus entstehende Gruppenporträt gibt Einblicke in Motivationen, Alltag und Erfahrungen einer letzten Generation von Missionarinnen.

Women missionaries --- Missionaries --- Missions --- History. --- History --- Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood. --- Mission History --- Catholic Missionary Sisters --- Transnational Life stories --- South Africa --- Mission Space --- Missionsgeschichte --- Katholische Missionarinnen --- Transnationale Lebensgeschichten --- Südafrika --- Missionsraum --- Mariannhiller Missionare --- Römisch-katholische Kirche

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The book focuses on german speaking catholic missionary sisters who came to South Africa after 1945. In three chapters (space of origin, convent space, missionary space) the life stories are interpreted as an “adventure with a rule”. The group portrait shows motivations, daily life and experiences of one of the last generations of missionary women. Das Buch stellt deutschsprachige katholische Missionarinnen, die seit 1945 in Südafrika tätig waren, in den Mittelpunkt. Entlang der drei Kapitel Herkunftsraum, Klosterraum und Missionsraum werden die Lebensgeschichten der Frauen als Erzählungen eines „regulierten Abenteuers“ interpretiert. Das daraus entstehende Gruppenporträt gibt Einblicke in Motivationen, Alltag und Erfahrungen einer letzten Generation von Missionarinnen.

Women missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Missions --- Missions --- Missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Missions --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women missionaries --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Mission History --- Catholic Missionary Sisters --- Transnational Life stories --- South Africa --- Mission Space --- Missionsgeschichte --- Katholische Missionarinnen --- Transnationale Lebensgeschichten --- Südafrika --- Missionsraum --- Mariannhiller Missionare --- Römisch-katholische Kirche --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History --- History --- Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood. --- Mission History --- Catholic Missionary Sisters --- Transnational Life stories --- South Africa --- Mission Space --- Missionsgeschichte --- Katholische Missionarinnen --- Transnationale Lebensgeschichten --- Südafrika --- Missionsraum --- Mariannhiller Missionare --- Römisch-katholische Kirche