2 Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. The Political Work of Witness
6. The Ex-Disappeared in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 31
7. Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will 56
8. The Ethics of Learning from Rwandan Survivor Communities 88
9. The Role of Oral History in Surviving a Eugenic Past 119
10. Working with Survivors
11. From Testimony to Recounting 141
12. Collaborative Witnessing and Sharing Authority in Conversations with Holocaust Survivors 170
13. Sharing “A Big Kettle of Soup” 192
14. “Questions Are More Important than Answers” 212
15. On Tour with Mapping Memories 235
16. Acts of Composure and Framing
17. Economic Violence, Occupational Disability, and Death 257
18. The Frames We Use 285
19. Memories of Departures 311
20. Finding Meaning in Oral History Sources through Storytelling and Religion 332
21. Afterword 351
22. Contributors 357
23. Index 362