Collecting Ego-Documents and Democratisation

Author(s)

Li Gerhalter

Abstract

Women’s History and Gender History pursue an essentially socio-political demand. This aspect shall be illustrated in this article by using the example of collections, which archive ego-documents such as diaries, letter exchanges, or photo albums. The author explains the connection to “public history” and suggests that those who donate ego-documents to archives should be called “citizen scientists”.

Organisation(s)

Department of History

Journal

Public History Weekly

Volume

8

No. of pages

5

ISSN

2197-6376

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/phw-2020-15175

Publication date

03-2020

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

601022 Contemporary history

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/3bf23bc6-3533-46b9-86b7-4cf151779403