Remembering a Massacre: How Has the Rise of Oral History as a Methodology Impacted Dersim Studies?
Remembering a Massacre: How Has the Rise of Oral History as a Methodology Impacted Dersim Studies?
Author(s): Gözde OrhanSubject(s): History, Oral history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Ośrodek »Pamięć i Przyszłość«
Keywords: Dersim studies;Kurdish studies;Dersim massacre;Dersim genocide;oral history;history;
Summary/Abstract: Dersim, an eastern province of Turkey whose name was changed to Tunceli by a 1935 law and whose borders were redefined for spatial control in the early Republican period, witnessed a bloody massacre executed by the Turkish army in 1937–1938. The massacre has become a “secret” over the course of time, and even critical Turkish literature has refrained from discussing the role of the Turkish state in it until recently. This paper aims to scrutinize the rise of oral history as a methodology used to study the Dersim massacre. In this paper, based on a review of the literature, the author argues that starting in the 1990s a new current using primarily oral sources has appeared.
Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 09
- Page Range: 95-118
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English