Doing history that matters

Going public and activating voices as a form of historical activism

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ID4004723
AuthorsErika Dyck (0000-0002-2745-6695, Department of History University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Canada, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume57
Issue1
Pages75-86
Publication date2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jhbs.22069
PMID33200841
OpenAlexW3101753443
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited30

For many of us academics, doing community-engaged research means coming to terms with the significant gaps in experience, privilege, and power, and overall access to knowledge. We are trained to learn through texts, not through direct experience. In some ways, we are even conditioned to tune out experience, or anecdote, to dilute personal subjectivities in favor of a critical analysis informed by a combination of methods and sources, and a reliance on text-based forms of evidence. Whereas for most community members, evidence is experiential. This dynamic also underscores the tremendous power and responsibility we have as historians to shape identities and legacies through the stories we tell. In the end, I believe the risks are worth the rewards

Aesthetics · Anecdote · Art · Epistemology · Experiential knowledge · Experiential learning · Heterosexism · Lesbian · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Public relations · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Race, History, and American Society

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