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In The Voice of the Past, Paul Thompson emphasises that oral history is built around people. Words used are spoken and owned. Applying the same tools of interviews and recordings, "verbatim playwrights pride themselves on telling stories that aren't being told elsewhere and they often describe what they are doing with phrases such as 'hidden histories', 'giving voice to the voiceless', or 'writing from the ground up'..." (Wake, 2010. p.8).
Pseudonyms are used to preserve confidentiality.
Gareth's story
Gareth's story
On change, belonging as an outsider, and practicing art
Gareth introduction.mp4Gareth's story.pdfJulia's story
Julia's story
On family, grief, moving houses, and caring as work
Julia's narrative.pdfKay's story
Kay's story
On canine companions, mobility and stuff
Kay's narrative.pdfNoah's story
Noah's story
On shift, homesickness, and the way-finding ahead
Noah's story.pdfSimon's story
Simon's story
On sea-changing, risks, and dynamic evolution
Simon's story.pdfSophie's story
Sophie's story
On isolation, community, and the artist's identity
Sophie's narrative.pdfSelected references
Bachelard, G. (2014). The poetics of space (2nd Ed.). New York: Penguin Books.
Janaczewska, N. (2018). Good with maps. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press.
Douglas, M. (1991). The idea of a home: A kind of space. Social Research, 58(1), 287-307.
Heller, A. (1995). Where are we at home? Thesis Eleven, 41(1), 1-18.
Lang, R. (1985). The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition. In Seamon D and Mugerauer R (Eds.). Dwelling, Place and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 201-213.
Noble, G. (2004). Accumulating being. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(2), 233-256. Accessed 24 July 2022 https://www.academia.edu/6872288/Accumulating_Being_2003
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Ralph, D. & Staeheli, L. (2011). Home and migration: Mobilities, belongings and identities. Geography Compass, 5(7), 517-530.
Rapaport, N. (2018). Anyone - Any Arthur, Sean or Stan: Home-making as human capacity and individual practice. In Bahun, S. & Petric, B.(Eds.). Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. London and New York: Routledge, 17-39.
Richardson, J. (2019). Place and identity: The performance of home. London and New York: Routledge.
Thompson, P. (2017). The voice of the past: Oral history (4th Ed.). USA: Oxford University Press.
Wake, C. (2010). Verbatim theatre within a spectrum of practices. In Brown, P. (Ed.). Verbatim: Staging Memory & Community. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press.
Woodward, I. (2003). Divergent narratives in the imagining of the home amongst middle-class consumers: Aesthetics, comfort and the symbolic boundaries of self and home. Journal of Sociology 39(4), 391-412. Accessed 22 July 2022 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29457111_Divergent_Narratives_in_the_Imagining_of_the_Home_Amongst_Middle-Class_Consumers_Aesthetics_Comfort_and_the_Symbolic_Boundaries_of_Self_and_Home
Recommended reference
Robertson, B.M. (2013). Oral history handbook (5th Ed.). South Australia: Oral History Association of Australia.
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