| Description |
1 online resource (276, [6] pages) |
| Contents |
pt. One Oral History Primer -- History on a Human Scale -- What Is Oral History and How Does It Relate to Social Justice? -- Applications for Oral History -- Essential Questions and Ethics -- Oral History: An "Experiment in Equality" -- Why Should I Share My Story with You? Ownership, Identity, and Storytelling -- The Chain of Trust and Collaboration in Oral History -- How Do I Find Narrators for My Oral History Project? -- Creating Safe/Brave Spaces for Sharing Stories -- Avoiding Retraumatization -- Protecting Narrator Safety -- Power, Privilege, and Representation in Oral History -- Insider/Outsider Dynamics -- Curiosity and Flexibility in Oral History Projects -- Editing Oral History Transcripts: Honoring Your Narrator's Voice -- Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue, and Developing a Capacity to Listen to Difficult Stories -- Preserving and Archiving Oral History -- pt. Two Oral History Field Reports -- A Note on the Field Reports -- Behind the Wire: Mandatory Detention in Australia / Sienna Merope -- OG Told Me / Pendarvis Harshaw -- After the Disaster: Rebuilding Lives and Communities in Fukushima / Jon Funabiki -- Reentry Stories: Life after Prison and Jail / Claire Kiefer -- Unsettled: Relocating after Katrina / Eric Marshall -- Our Town, Our Stories: A School/Community Collaboration / Cliff Mayotte -- Cycles of Domestic Violence / Ashley Jacobs -- Resilience: Elders in East Harlem / Lauren Taylor -- DREAMers Testimoniando / Shelby Pasell -- Tales of Tar Sands Resistance: Voices from the Texas Front Lines / Stephanie G. Thomas -- Project LRN: Listening to Residents and Neighbors / Genevra Gallo-Bayiates -- pt. Three Storytelling and Oral History Resources -- Getting Started: A Quick Guide to Setting Up Your Oral History Project -- Production Resource List -- Storytelling and Oral History |
| Summary |
Oral history is a universal form of storytelling. For many years, Voice of Witness has shared powerful stories of people impacted by injustice with a broad audience of readers. Say It Forward extends this work, offering a DIY guide for social justice storytelling that outlines the critical methodology at the core of Voice of Witness's evocative oral history collections. Field reports candidly detail how to harness the power of personal narrative to expose larger issues of inequality |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2019) |
| Subject |
Oral history -- Methodology
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Social justice.
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Social Justice
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
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Oral history -- Methodology
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Social justice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Catasús, Natalie, editor
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Kiefer, Claire, author, editor
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Vong, Erin, editor
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| ISBN |
9781608469598 |
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160846959X |
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