Publications

 Publications related to East German research by Molly Andrews

 

Articles in refereed journals

 

 (2003) “Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: A comparative analysis” Invited article for special issue on Cultural Memory, Media, culture and society 25/1: 45-66.

 

(2000) "Forgiveness in Context" Journal of moral education 29/1: 75-86.

 

(1999) “Truth-telling, justice, and forgiveness: A study of East Germany’s “Truth Commission” International journal of politics, culture and society 13/1: 103-120.

 

(1998)  "Criticism/self-Criticism in East Germany: Contradictions between theory and practice" Critical Sociology 24/1-2.

 

 (1997) "Life review in the context of acute social transition: The case of East Germany" British journal of social psychology 36: 273-290.

 

(1995) "Against good advice: Reflections on conducting research in a country where you don't speak the language" Oral history review 20/1: 75-86. Reprinted in Harrison, B., ed. (2009) Life Story Research. London: Sage Publishers.

 

 

Other published journal articles

 

 (1998) "One hundred miles of lives: The Stasi files as a people's history of East Germany" Oral History 26/1: 24-31. 

 

(1995) "A monoglot working abroad: Working through problems of translation" Oral history 23/2: 47-50.

 

Chapters in books

 

(2014) “Beyond Narrative: The Shape of Traumatic Testimony”  in Jensen, M. and Jolly, M., eds. We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights,  Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press.

 

(2014) “The nice Stasi man drove his Trabi to the nudist beach: Contesting East German Identity” in Piazza, Roberta and Fasulo, Alessandra, eds. When identities are marked: Narrating lives between societal labels and individual biographies London: Palgrave

 

 (2014) "A very elementary transformation of one’s existence’: Narrating Moments of Political Change” in Reid, Hazel and West, Linden, eds. Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: A Transdisciplinary approach to Researching Lives London: Routledge.  This will also appear in Swedish in a book edited by Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, Greger Andersson, Carina Lidström  and Sten Wistrand.

 

(2014) “Narrating moments of political change” in Kinnvall, Catarina, Paul Nesbitt-Larking, and Tereza Capelos, eds. Palgrave Handbook of Political Psychology London: Palgrave.

 

(2009) “Against good advice: Reflections on conducting research in a country where you don’t speak the language” (reprinted from 1995 publication in The Oral History Review) in Harrison, B., ed. Life story research Volumes 1-4 London: Sage.

 

(2007) "Exploring Cross-cultural boundaries" in Clandinin, J (ed.) Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology. SAGE, pp. 498-512.

 

(2003) “Generational consciousness, dialogue, and political engagement” in Edmunds, June and Bryan Turner, eds. Generational consciousness, narrative and politics Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield. 

 

(2003) “Continuity and discontinuity of East German identity following the fall of the Berlin Wall: A case study” in Gready, Paul, ed, Cultures of political transition: Memory, identity and voice London: Pluto Press.         

 

(2000) "Text in a changing context: Reconstructing lives in East Germany"  in Bornat, Joanna, Prue Chamberlayne and Tom Wengraf, eds. The turn to biographical methods in Social Science: Comparative issues and examples London:Routledge.