Looking Outward: Archival Research as Community Engagement

Community Literacy Journal Jan 2017

Looking Outward: Archival Research as Community Engagement

Whitney Douglas Boise State University

Abstract

This article examines archival research as a generative community literacy practice. Through the example of a community-based project centered on archival research, I examine the increased possibility the archives hold as a site for rhetorical invention based on collaboration that includes contemporary community members and the recovered rhetoric of historical figures. I argue that archival research as community literacy practice creates conditions for a communal form of literacy sponsorship and offer a framework for approaching the archives.

Journal: Community Literacy Journal
Published: 2017-01-01
DOI: 10.25148/clj.11.2.009132
Open Access: Closed
Topics: archival research community literacy

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