Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban WorldJoanna Herbert, Richard Rodger Routledge, 2016. ápr. 1. - 296 oldal Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience unavailable to historians of earlier periods. In this groundbreaking collection, oral testimonies are used to explore themes relating to the construction of urban memories in European cities during the twentieth century. From the daily experiences of city life, to personal and communal responses to urban change and regeneration, to migration and the construction of ethnic identities, oral history is employed to enrich our understanding of urban history. It offers insights and perspectives that both enhance existing approaches and forces us to re-examine official histories based on more traditional sources of documentation. Moreover, it enables the historian to understand something of the nature of memory itself, and how people construct their own versions of the urban experience to try to make sense of the past. By using the full range of opportunities offered by oral history, as well as fully considering the related methodological issues of interpretation, this volume provides a fascinating insight into one of the least explored areas of urban history. As well as adding to our understanding of the European urban experience, it highlights the potential of this intersection of oral and urban history. |
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SOCIAL IDENTITIES | |
Zagrebs new housing communities since the 1950s | |
Valentina Gulin Zrnić | |
narratives of ethnic | |
a sensitive experience | |
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AIOCIMS Alexandru Beldiman analysis Ancsa Angeles architects architectural archival asbestos Beldiman Beyers Bretteville Bucharest Budapest building Calea Victoriei Ceausescu chapter Chinese civic centre collective construction context cultural demolition discourses ethnic everyday ex-Yugoslav example experiences flat galeri gang gender Glasgow groups György Halbwachs heavy industries hippy historians housing communities housing estates Hungarian immigrants important individual inhabitants interpretation Interview jampec Japanese Americans Jugurică labour laundry Lăzărescu Limburg Little Tokyo lives London Los Angeles Lungu male Memória memory migrants Mihai Vodă Monastery mining towns monuments moral panic narrative neighbourhood neighbours Neil Rafeek Óbuda oral history oral testimonies Paris Parisian past Paulo perspective police political public art public space racism relations relationship respondents role Romanian Social Identity SOHC SOHOHP South Asian stories street symbolic tape Teréz Trabant Travno twentieth century urban history urban space Vienna Wien women workers workplace youth Zagreb