Layered Lives
The Southern Life History Project, a Federal Writers' Project initiative, put unemployed writers to work during the Great Depression by capturing the stories of everyday people across the Southeast through a new form of social documentation called "life histories." Layered Lives recovers the history...
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| description | The Southern Life History Project, a Federal Writers' Project initiative, put unemployed writers to work during the Great Depression by capturing the stories of everyday people across the Southeast through a new form of social documentation called "life histories." Layered Lives recovers the history of the Southern Life History Project (SLHP) through an interdisciplinary approach that combines close readings of archival material with computational methods that analyze the collection at scale. The authors grapple with the challenges of what counts as social knowledge, how to accurately represent social conditions, who could produce such knowledge, and who is and is not represented. Embedded within such debates are also struggles over what counts as data, evidence, and ways of knowing. As we look to our current moment, where debates about the opportunities and limits of quantification and the nature of data continue, the problems and promises that shaped the SLHP still shape how we capture and share stories today. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1440322024-09-12T07:42:09Z Layered Lives Arnold, Taylor Rivard, Courtney Tilton, Lauren Southern Life History Project Federal Writers' Project life histories interviews Great Depression social documentation thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KB North America (USA and Canada)::1KBB United States of America, USA thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography The Southern Life History Project, a Federal Writers' Project initiative, put unemployed writers to work during the Great Depression by capturing the stories of everyday people across the Southeast through a new form of social documentation called "life histories." Layered Lives recovers the history of the Southern Life History Project (SLHP) through an interdisciplinary approach that combines close readings of archival material with computational methods that analyze the collection at scale. The authors grapple with the challenges of what counts as social knowledge, how to accurately represent social conditions, who could produce such knowledge, and who is and is not represented. Embedded within such debates are also struggles over what counts as data, evidence, and ways of knowing. As we look to our current moment, where debates about the opportunities and limits of quantification and the nature of data continue, the problems and promises that shaped the SLHP still shape how we capture and share stories today. 2024-09-12T07:42:08Z 2024-09-12T07:42:08Z 2022 book ONIX_20240912_9781503615281_12 9781503615281 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/144032 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://layeredlives.org https://layeredlives.org Stanford University Press 10.21627/2022ll 10.21627/2022ll e1c5a643-9287-4a26-84e2-83547f3c823b 9781503615281 open access |
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