Description
When hundreds of people displaced by mass violence volunteered to tell their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be recorded, collected, and shared.
Using the Montreal Life Stories project as an example of collective storytelling, Oral History at the Crossroads rejects the idea that there must be "critical distance" between researchers and their subjects. Instead, it provides an alternative model to traditional research practice, one where community members "share authority" as equal partners in a project. More than a hundred photographs illustrate the experiences of those who participated in the project and highlight the intersections between oral history, digital media, and performance.
A sustained reflection on collaborative research, Oral History at the Crossroads has methodological and ethical implications for scholars. And, as a contemporary model for curating oral and public history, it pushes the field in new directions.
Creates a new model for how oral and public stories can be recorded and curated.
About the Author
Steven High is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Oral History and the co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University. He was principal investigator of the Montreal Life Stories project.
Awards
Winner of CLIO Prize for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada).
Book Information
ISBN 9780774826846
Author Steven High
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 660g
