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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/collecting-egodocuments-and-democratisation(3bf23bc6-3533-46b9-86b7-4cf151779403).html