RIHO – Interdisciplinary Journal of Oral History is founded with the aim of becoming a leading space for the study of orality, memory and testimony within the Iberian academic world. Published by the Institute of Contemporary Studies, Politics and Governance and the Julio Caro Baroja Institute of Historiography, both at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the journal is based on a clear conviction: oral sources not only broaden our knowledge of the past, but also require us to rethink the methods, languages and frameworks through which we study it.
At a time when academia increasingly calls for more open and connected approaches, RIHO aims to be a meeting point for disciplines that work with orality as a central source. History, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Social Psychology, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities and Heritage Studies all find here a shared space for dialogue and experimentation. In this way, the journal seeks to give fresh momentum to a field with a strong international tradition, but one that still needs to strengthen its articulation across the Iberian Peninsula.