Decolonising Oral History

A Conversation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9879970
AutoresHilary Francis (0000-0002-4213-2613, Northumbria University, autor de correspondencia), Inge A M Boudewijn (0000-0002-8348-7867, Northumbria University), INGE BOUDEWIJN (Northumbria University), Antonia Carcelén-Estrada (0000-0002-5224-3157, Universidad San Francisco de Quito), ANTONIA CARCELÉN‐ESTRADA (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), JUANA FRANCIS BONE (Mujeres de Asfalto), Katy Jenkins (0000-0002-9174-3648, Northumbria University), Sofia Zaragocin (0000-0002-0190-1439, Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Año2021
Volumen106
Número370
Páginas265-281
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-229x.13141
OpenAlexW3168014084
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics of the project. Over email and video calls, the research team debated how to ensure that our work was truly led by its Afro‐Ecuadorian participants. How would we secure recognition for their creative and intellectual work and avoid appropriation of their ideas? And how would we facilitate a collective, community‐based methodology when most eurocentric oral history is so rooted in individualist approaches? The result of this process is a collectively authored document, which stands as our ethical agreement and baseline, and a record of our joint commitment to decolonise the research process. This wide‐ranging conversation between community activists and scholars explores the complex, painstaking negotiations required to create a truly decolonial and feminist practice in transnational oral history work

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Conversation · Epistemology · Ethnography · Individualism · Negotiation · Oral history · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics