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Oral history and narrative

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posted on 2023-05-25, 15:15 authored by Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford
Across peoples and cultures, diverse capacities to remember, reflect, and communicate, and the compulsion to understand the world in which we live, gather as a combined force in storytelling and the use of narrative to hear and be heard. Oral history is a powerful qualitative research method to directly engage with and preserve the memories, stories, and knowledge of those still living. Using such field methods, practitioners are motivated to understand participants' direct experiences of the lifeworld, of place, and of space and spatiality. Furthermore they are concerned with the ways in which those experiences illuminate other important issues and events which, in the past, have appeared unremarkable. Oral history's capacity to uncover the extraordinary within the everyday empowers participants and audiences, and enables practitioners – geographers not least among them – to validate and value knowledge hitherto consigned to historical obscurity.

History

Editors

D Richardson, N Castree, MF Goodchild, A Kobayashi, W Liu, RA Marston

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1-6

Department/School

College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Place of publication

London

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Copyright 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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