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Collaborative and participatory research methodologies are particularly significant to scholarship in memory studies, place attachment, and place-making. This chapter explores how participatory research methodologies, including participatory project design, crowdsourcing, participatory community mapping, and community curation, can render more visible the individual and social functions of cultural memory to researchers and participants. Participatory methods make visible the performances of memory, simultaneously honoring individual representations and narratives, constructing intimate publics and highlighting community identities through collected and collective memories. Scholars and their coresearchers construct meaning and negotiate its broader and deeper significance together using these methods. The widely democratic nature of memory, place-based knowledge, and place attachment offers possibilities for understanding these phenomena and their intersections in new ways.
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Shea, M. (2019). Participatory Methods and Community-Engaged Practices for Collecting, Presenting, and Representing Cultural Memory. In: Drozdzewski, D., Birdsall, C. (eds) Doing Memory Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1411-7_9
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