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Description
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple cultures and disciplines, this book examines the ways in which oral historians, media producers, and theatre artists use art, stories, and participatory practices to engage creatively with their publics. It offers insights into concerns related to voice, appropriation, privilege, and the ethics of participation, and it reveals that the shift towards participatory research and creative practices requires a commitment to asking tough questions about oneself and the ways that people’s stories are used.
Contributor Notes
Elizabeth Miller is a documentary maker and professor at Concordia University whose work addresses timely issues such as water privatization, refugee rights, gender advocacy and climate change. Her documentary The Water Front (2007) received six awards, including the Silver Drop Award at the World Water Forum. Mapping Memories (2012), a participatory media project, resulted in a book, DVD, and website designed for educators across Canada. At Home, in Bed, and in the Streets (2014) was screened at international festivals and integrated into advocacy campaigns in Nicaragua. The Shore Line (2017), an online documentary, profiles coastal communities responding to extreme weather, sea level rise and unsustainable development. Miller co-founded the Concordia Documentary Centre and is a board member of the international screening network Cinema Politica.
Edward (Ted) Little is an educator, essayist, writer, and theatre maker. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, and the associate artistic director of Teesri Duniya Theatre, an innovative Montreal-based company dedicated to the creation and production of socially and politically relevant theatre based on the cultural experiences of diverse communities. Little was editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage (2002–12), and he participated in the Montreal Life Stories project as co-investigator, member of the coordinating committee, and leader of the Performance working group.
Steven High is a professor of history at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is the author or co-editor of eight other books, including Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement (2014), which won the Clio Prize for Quebec from the Canadian Historical Association. He was the principal investigator of the Montreal Life Stories project. He is a member of the US Oral History Association and the Canadian Historical Association as well as an advisory board member of the journal Oral History.
