Alistair Thomson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3769555 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alistair Thomson |
| NOMBRES | Alistair |
| APELLIDO | Thomson |
| FIRMA | THOMSON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1735-1830 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
História Oral
Neste artigo, apresenta-se a emergência e consolidação da História Oral nos últimos 50 anos. Ela se ampliou como uma metodologia, como um testemunho, como uma forma de criar fontes de pesquisa; ainda, como uma disciplina que se insere não apenas no interior da historiografia, mas entre outras áreas, como a Sociologia, Antropologia, Literatura, Lingüística e outros campos de conhecimento. Na sequência, avalia-se o potencial e as limitações da Hist…
Feeling clumsy and curious. A collective reflection on experimenting with poetry as an unconventional method
In this paper, we offer a collective, multi‐vocal reflection on using poetry for research purposes. These were reflections on an online sub‐plenary session organized as a workshop, which was held at the European Group for Organization Studies conference in 2021. During this workshop, the first three authors presented a step‐by‐step method for doing poetic inquiry and invited participants to apply it to their own empirical data or research praxis.…
Life Stories and Historical Analysis
History is a conversation’
This article introduces a digital history course taught in partnership by Monash University historians and Museum Victoria curators, and explores the opportunities and challenges of history teaching with digital media and of producing good history using the three-minute digital storytelling format. We assess student learning that is applicable to all forms of history-making: the discovery that history can be found in intimate stories as well as g…
Oral History and Australian Generations
The articles in this theme issue of Australian Historical Studies use interviews from the Australian Generations Oral History Project to explore a range of issues in Australian social and cultural history and about the documentation, interpretation and use of oral history. Digital technologies are transforming access to and use of oral history. Digital indexing has made it easier for researchers to search for relevant material within interviews a…
Australian Generations? Memory, Oral History and Generational Identity in Postwar Australia
Australian media pundits and popular sociologists write blithely about generations such as the Baby Boomers and Gen X, but what they are really writing about are birth cohorts who share some common life experiences and attitudes but do not necessarily share a generational identity. Drawing upon oral history interviews conducted with 300 Australians, this article argues that while a birth cohort may share historical reference points, it will not n…
Digital Aural History
Digital technologies and tools are transforming the presentation, interpretation, and use of oral history. Using a case study of the Australian Generations Oral History Project, this article focuses on how we have documented interviews and are presenting and interpreting them through writing in online formats that integrate aural material. I consider the interpretative opportunities and challenges posed in four elements of our digital oral histor…
The Oral History Reader
Oral History Reader
Film, Television, Radio & Theatre Reviews
Anzac Memories Revisited
In this article I return to interviews I conducted in the 1980s with Australian World War One veteran Fred Farrall, armed with new historical sources and new ways of thinking about war, suffering and memory. My interpretation of Fred's war and its consequences was central to the approach to individual and collective memory, and their complex interaction across time, which I articulated in my book Anzac Memories. Focusing on Fred's experience and …
Biography of an Archive
Between 1979 and the mid-1980s, the ‘Australia 1938’ oral history project, undertaken as part of a Bicentennial History Project, produced just under six hundred interviews about Australian lives in 1938. This article presents a biography of that project and its archive, and it illuminates a critical phase in the development of Australian oral history. By examining the methodological challenges and intellectual debates, both local and internationa…
Boredom is the Enemy’
‘Boredom is the Enemy’: The Intellectual and Imaginative Lives of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond. By Amanda Laugesen. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. Pp. 310. £70 hardba
Tied to the kitchen sink'? Women's Lives and Women's History in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain and Australia
In the decades after World War Two, women in Britain and Australia lived with—and sometimes against—a compelling expectation about women's role: they should marry and devote their lives to suburban domesticity and childcare. This article considers how the life stories of four women—born in Britain between 1928–38, and living in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s—can illuminate and complicate our understanding of the experience of the postwar s…
Oral History and Photography
K. S. Inglis Prize Winner Citation
The author of ‘Justice John Willis and the Boundaries of Local Politics and Imperial Justice’ has presented a skilled essay, which extends our understanding of an important and controversial moment
Memórias de Anzac
In this article Alistair Thomson grapples with the interconnections between individual and collective memory, showing how the remembering of an Australian war veteran was influenced by subsequent personal experiences and by changes in public commemoration. Analysis of the layers of meaning which are threaded through recorded memories not only helps us to understand what happened in the past, but can also show how the meanings of past events have …
Response
Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History
This paper reviews critical developments in the international history of oral history and outlines four paradigmatic revolutions in theory and practice: the postwar renaissance of memory as a source for 'people's history'; the development, from the late 1970s, of 'postpositivist' approaches to memory and subjectivity; a transformation in perceptions about the role of the oral historian as interviewer and analyst from the late 1980s; and the digit…
Anzac Stories
This article uses a case study of Australian soldiers' personal narratives about the Anzac landing - diaries, letters, memoirs and tape recordings - to explore approaches to the use of personal testimony in war history. It aims to provide methodological advice to war historians working with life stories by focusing on five features of personal testimony: the genre and form in which a life story is narrated; the autobiographical impulse which moti…
Introduction - Sharing Authority
Oral historians have a unique, personal relationship with the men and women whose life stories provide their source material. In his path-breaking book, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, Michael Frisch urged oral historians to consider if and how it might be possible to create a “shared authority” between historian and narrator in oral history research, interpretation and presentation. This collection…
The Oral History Reader
Histórias (co) movedoras
Este artigo pretende rever a contribuição dada pela história oral aos estudos sobre migração nos últimos vinte e cinco anos, especialmente entre a Grã-Bretanha e a Austrália. O título "histórias (co) movedoras" é um útil jogo de palavras sobre a história oral da migração porque está centrado na experiência pessoal de mudança entre lugares, assim como indica a natureza comovedora dos relatos para o narrador e sua audiência
Good migration’
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History
This paper reviews critical developments in the international history of oral history and outlines four paradigmatic revolutions in theory and practice: the postwar renaissance of memory as a source for 'people's history'; the development, from the late 1970s, of 'postpositivist' approaches to memory and subjectivity; a transformation in perceptions about the role of the oral historian as interviewer and analyst from the late 1980s; and the digit…
Fifty Years On
Journal Article Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History Get access Alistair Thomson Alistair Thomson teaches adult education and postgraduate courses about oral history at the University of Sussex and is coeditor British journal Oral History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 581–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567753 Pu…
Feeling clumsy and curious. A collective reflection on experimenting with poetry as an unconventional method
In this paper, we offer a collective, multi‐vocal reflection on using poetry for research purposes. These were reflections on an online sub‐plenary session organized as a workshop, which was held at the European Group for Organization Studies conference in 2021. During this workshop, the first three authors presented a step‐by‐step method for doing poetic inquiry and invited participants to apply it to their own empirical data or research praxis.…
Anzac Memories Revisited
In this article I return to interviews I conducted in the 1980s with Australian World War One veteran Fred Farrall, armed with new historical sources and new ways of thinking about war, suffering and memory. My interpretation of Fred's war and its consequences was central to the approach to individual and collective memory, and their complex interaction across time, which I articulated in my book Anzac Memories. Focusing on Fred's experience and …
Anzac Stories
This article uses a case study of Australian soldiers' personal narratives about the Anzac landing - diaries, letters, memoirs and tape recordings - to explore approaches to the use of personal testimony in war history. It aims to provide methodological advice to war historians working with life stories by focusing on five features of personal testimony: the genre and form in which a life story is narrated; the autobiographical impulse which moti…
Introduction - Sharing Authority
Oral historians have a unique, personal relationship with the men and women whose life stories provide their source material. In his path-breaking book, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, Michael Frisch urged oral historians to consider if and how it might be possible to create a “shared authority” between historian and narrator in oral history research, interpretation and presentation. This collection…
Histórias (co) movedoras
Este artigo pretende rever a contribuição dada pela história oral aos estudos sobre migração nos últimos vinte e cinco anos, especialmente entre a Grã-Bretanha e a Austrália. O título "histórias (co) movedoras" é um útil jogo de palavras sobre a história oral da migração porque está centrado na experiência pessoal de mudança entre lugares, assim como indica a natureza comovedora dos relatos para o narrador e sua audiência
Australian Generations? Memory, Oral History and Generational Identity in Postwar Australia
Australian media pundits and popular sociologists write blithely about generations such as the Baby Boomers and Gen X, but what they are really writing about are birth cohorts who share some common life experiences and attitudes but do not necessarily share a generational identity. Drawing upon oral history interviews conducted with 300 Australians, this article argues that while a birth cohort may share historical reference points, it will not n…
Making the Most of Memories
Oral history, defined by Ronald Grele as ‘the interviewing of eyewitness participants in the events of the past for the purposes of historical reconstruction’, is an invaluable and compelling research method for twentieth-century history. It provides access to undocumented experience, including the life of civic leaders who have not yet written their autobiographies and, more significantly, the ‘hidden histories’ of people on the margins: workers…
History is a conversation’
This article introduces a digital history course taught in partnership by Monash University historians and Museum Victoria curators, and explores the opportunities and challenges of history teaching with digital media and of producing good history using the three-minute digital storytelling format. We assess student learning that is applicable to all forms of history-making: the discovery that history can be found in intimate stories as well as g…
Tied to the kitchen sink'? Women's Lives and Women's History in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain and Australia
In the decades after World War Two, women in Britain and Australia lived with—and sometimes against—a compelling expectation about women's role: they should marry and devote their lives to suburban domesticity and childcare. This article considers how the life stories of four women—born in Britain between 1928–38, and living in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s—can illuminate and complicate our understanding of the experience of the postwar s…
Learning about Adult Learning
Spain Remembers Its Radical Past
‘Steadfast until death? C.E.W. Bean and the representation of Australian military manhood
(1989). ‘Steadfast until death? C.E.W. Bean and the representation of Australian military manhood. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 23, No. 93, pp. 462-478
The vilest libel of the war'? Imperial politics and the official histories of Gallipoli∗
Learning about Adult Learning
Memory as a Battlefield
For the past decade I have been researching Australian memories of the First World War, exploring the memories of war veterans, the national popular legend of (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), and the relationship between individual memories and national legend. In 1994 I concluded this research with the publication of Anzac Memories: Living With the Legend.' Throughout the project I was often surprised by the extent and intensity of the e…
Anzac Memories
Fifty Years On
Journal Article Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History Get access Alistair Thomson Alistair Thomson teaches adult education and postgraduate courses about oral history at the University of Sussex and is coeditor British journal Oral History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 581–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567753 Pu…
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
Making the Most of Memories
Oral history, defined by Ronald Grele as ‘the interviewing of eyewitness participants in the events of the past for the purposes of historical reconstruction’, is an invaluable and compelling research method for twentieth-century history. It provides access to undocumented experience, including the life of civic leaders who have not yet written their autobiographies and, more significantly, the ‘hidden histories’ of people on the margins: workers…
Good migration’
The Oral History Reader
Histórias (co) movedoras
Este artigo pretende rever a contribuição dada pela história oral aos estudos sobre migração nos últimos vinte e cinco anos, especialmente entre a Grã-Bretanha e a Austrália. O título "histórias (co) movedoras" é um útil jogo de palavras sobre a história oral da migração porque está centrado na experiência pessoal de mudança entre lugares, assim como indica a natureza comovedora dos relatos para o narrador e sua audiência
Introduction - Sharing Authority
Oral historians have a unique, personal relationship with the men and women whose life stories provide their source material. In his path-breaking book, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, Michael Frisch urged oral historians to consider if and how it might be possible to create a “shared authority” between historian and narrator in oral history research, interpretation and presentation. This collection…
Anzac Stories
This article uses a case study of Australian soldiers' personal narratives about the Anzac landing - diaries, letters, memoirs and tape recordings - to explore approaches to the use of personal testimony in war history. It aims to provide methodological advice to war historians working with life stories by focusing on five features of personal testimony: the genre and form in which a life story is narrated; the autobiographical impulse which moti…
Response
Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History
This paper reviews critical developments in the international history of oral history and outlines four paradigmatic revolutions in theory and practice: the postwar renaissance of memory as a source for 'people's history'; the development, from the late 1970s, of 'postpositivist' approaches to memory and subjectivity; a transformation in perceptions about the role of the oral historian as interviewer and analyst from the late 1980s; and the digit…
K. S. Inglis Prize Winner Citation
The author of ‘Justice John Willis and the Boundaries of Local Politics and Imperial Justice’ has presented a skilled essay, which extends our understanding of an important and controversial moment
Memórias de Anzac
In this article Alistair Thomson grapples with the interconnections between individual and collective memory, showing how the remembering of an Australian war veteran was influenced by subsequent personal experiences and by changes in public commemoration. Analysis of the layers of meaning which are threaded through recorded memories not only helps us to understand what happened in the past, but can also show how the meanings of past events have …
Oral History and Photography
Boredom is the Enemy’
‘Boredom is the Enemy’: The Intellectual and Imaginative Lives of Australian Soldiers in the Great War and Beyond. By Amanda Laugesen. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. Pp. 310. £70 hardba
Tied to the kitchen sink'? Women's Lives and Women's History in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain and Australia
In the decades after World War Two, women in Britain and Australia lived with—and sometimes against—a compelling expectation about women's role: they should marry and devote their lives to suburban domesticity and childcare. This article considers how the life stories of four women—born in Britain between 1928–38, and living in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s—can illuminate and complicate our understanding of the experience of the postwar s…
Biography of an Archive
Between 1979 and the mid-1980s, the ‘Australia 1938’ oral history project, undertaken as part of a Bicentennial History Project, produced just under six hundred interviews about Australian lives in 1938. This article presents a biography of that project and its archive, and it illuminates a critical phase in the development of Australian oral history. By examining the methodological challenges and intellectual debates, both local and internationa…
The Oral History Reader
Oral History Reader
Film, Television, Radio & Theatre Reviews
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