Authors:
- Emily Bridger, Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter - Google Scholar, ORCID

- Kefuoe Makena, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Abstract: »This article examines the methodological challenges of using oral history to research histories of sexual violence. Drawing on a project exploring rape in apartheid South Africa, it asks questions about how interviews should be conducted and how the resulting narratives can be sensitively analysed. While oral histories are subjective sources, inherently shaped by present contexts and co-created in a unique relationship between interviewee and interviewer, the article argues that these very complexities make them uniquely valuable. Oral histories do more than fill archival gaps; they also highlight how histories of violence are lived, contested, and understood in the present.« (Source: History Workshop Journal)

Contents:

	Methodological Challenges: Conducting Interviews (p. 2)
	Methologial Challenges: The Subjectivities of Oral History (p. 4)
	The Uses of Oral History (p. 12)
	Conlcusion (p. 17)
	Notes and References (p. 18)

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