Publikace na Fakulta sociálních věd, Filozofická fakulta, Fakulta humanitních studií |
2014
Abstrakt
This paper focuses on two main topics - the development of oral history in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and the important issues and problems currently faced by oral historians in the Czech Republic. After the Velvet Revolution, oral history became desirable for the purposes of democratisation, and also became neceassary as there was a lasck of "official" written documents.
The current "boom" in oral history has both negative and positive impacts: there exists a misuse of oral history for political pusposes and the "hunt for sensation" on the one hand, and "giving voice" and democratisation of history on the other.