ABSTRACT

As the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified structural inequities worldwide, the field of oral history and its practitioners are reexamining established best practices. The pandemic has heightened awareness of underlying issues in oral history with the challenges of social distancing, financial collapse, privacy concerns in an increasingly virtual world, and the uneven impacts of the pandemic. This article calls for shoring up and expanding support structures when conducting interviews during and about the pandemic, including supporting oral historians and narrators, designing project supports and creating supportive interview formats, and supporting humanity in and through our work. There are no easy answers to the issues that oral history has been and continues to grapple with, but the pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on how we engage in this work and create more inclusive and equitable practices moving forward.

摘要

由于COVID-19大流行在全球范围内加剧了结构不平等，因此口述历史领域及其从业人员正在重新研究已建立的最佳实践。流行病已引起人们对口述历史中潜在问题的认识，这些挑战包括社会疏远，财务崩溃，日益虚拟的世界中的隐私问题以及流行病影响不均等挑战。本文呼吁在大流行期间和大流行期间进行采访时，加强和扩大支持结构，包括支持口述历史学家和叙述者，设计项目支持，创建支持性采访形式以及在我们的工作中以及通过我们的工作来支持人类。对于口述历史一直在继续解决的问题，没有简单的答案，