Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement

Steven High author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:5th May '14

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Creates a new model for how oral and public stories can be recorded and curated.

Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.

Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority” as equal partners. Together, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be collected and shared. As a sustained reflection on this large-scale experiment in collaborative research, Oral History at the Crossroads has methodological and ethical implications for scholars. It also provides a contemporary model for curating public history, pushing the field in new directions.

  • Winner of CLIO Prize for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)

ISBN: 9780774826839

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 780g

456 pages