Oral History at the Crossroads

Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project's organisers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members oshared authorityo as equal partners. Together, th [...]
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Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project's organisers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members oshared authorityo 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 experiement in collaboration 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 the new directions.