Community and Identity as Sources of Resilience: How an Oral History Project Contributed to Forge the Identity of a Community
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In this article, the reader will learn how, step by step, an oral history project was able to help a community to recover and forge an identity that was in danger of being lost. Being the identity of a community one of its most important assets, the process of organization of such project is laid out in the hope that other communities will benefit from our experience, and use the recovery of the identity of a given community as a source of resilience.
Keywords: Community, Identity, Oral History
Stream:
Cultural Sustainability, Social Sustainability
Presentation Type:
Virtual Presentation in English
Paper:
Community and Identity as Sources of Resilience
Chantal Marie Portillo Stephens
PH.D Fellowship Student, Department of Modern Philology, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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After completing my studies on Translating and Interpreting I am at present in my second year of PH.D studies, enrolled in the programme ‘Cultural Sustainable Tourism: Tangible and Intangible Heritage’ in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. My line of investigation in the research group lead by PH.D Margaret Hart is centred in 'The Education for a Wholistic Tourist Product: Intangible Heritage'. In this line of work, I participated in the EU project Mediterranean Voices in 2004, carrying out oral testimonies recompilation, transcription and analysis, and participating actively in the organization of the Exhibition held in the Casa-Museo de Colón, in LPGC, where I was responsible of various workshops that would introduce students to the importance of intangible heritage for the preservation of local identity. I am actually working as part of my thesis on the project Family Album, which intends to organize a photograph exhibition in various schools thanks to the work of the students and through oral history recompilation. Finally, I am Secretary of the Association ‘Voices and Memory: Intangible Patrimony’, which intends to work on the recuperation of Intangible Heritage to help integrate newcomers in islands, an issue of great urgency nowadays.
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