Article ID: CBB280852277

Doing History That Matters: Going Public and Activating Voices as a Form of Historical Activism (2021)

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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.

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Article Alexandra Rutherford (2021) Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 5-11). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Delafontaine, Ramses
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
Amelia Urry
Mitsuru Sôma
Koji Murata
Černá, Jana
Concepts
Experience; witness
Epistemology
Authorities; experts
Historical method
Observation
Expertise
Time Periods
Early modern
18th century
Medieval
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Byzantium
Spain
Greece
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Wernerian Natural History Society
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