Participatory Oral History
Participatory oral history is a qualitative research design in which community members act as co-researchers alongside academic investigators to collect, interpret, and share first-person accounts of lived experience and collective memory. Drawing on Michael Frisch's concept of 'shared authority,' it repositions research participants as active agents in the knowledge-production process rather than passive informants, making it especially powerful for documenting marginalized voices and community-held histories that would otherwise remain invisible in official archives.
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- Frisch, M. (1990). A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. State University of New York Press. · ISBN 978-0791402481
- Perks, R., & Thomson, A. (Eds.). (2016). The Oral History Reader (3rd ed.). Routledge. · ISBN 978-0415676618
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