This textbook explores oral history interviews that go 'wrong', offering a collective reflection on oral history practice based on encounters that produced unforeseen results and data that, in principle, seem useless. The contributions gathered here report and meticulously analyze surprises encountered in collecting personal narratives - including interviewees that lie, those that seek to tamper with research, or narrate events in which they did not participate. These interactions problematize dialogue, and raise vital questions about the production of oral history, its sources, and personal narratives. Theoretically informed yet accessible, this collection is an essential reflection on oral history methodologies and, more generally, the intersubjectivities that arise from historical research. weiterlesen