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Citation: 

High, Steven. “Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes and Mobile Methodologies.” In Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History, edited by Shelley Trower, 217-31. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Abstract/Summary: 

In this chapter, Steven High examines the growing role of technology in historical studies, particularly regarding conducting oral history research and utilizing it afterwards. Inspired by innovations in geography, the emerging “mobilities paradigm” offers new ways for historians to conduct “bimbling,” “soundwalking,” or conducting “go-along” interviews. The resulting “memoryscapes” allow the histories to be transmitted electronically, so they can be used by others long after the interview to “literally walk in the storyteller’s footsteps.” Using Sturgeon Falls, Ontario as a case study, High posits that, despite some caveats, “mobile methodologies offer oral and public historians the possibility to track subjective, partial and individual trajectories through time and space.”

Source/Credit: 
Shannon Leggett