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Oral History and Digital Stories from Cape Town

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Humanities, Social Sciences
Institution Name:
University of Cape Town
Collection:
University of Cape Town
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract:

People in South Africa have a dynamic but largely unrecorded heritage. The Centre for Popular Memory CPM creates spaces for these stories to be heard seen and remembered The CPM presents various oral history and memory courses for on and off campus students such as a 1st semester postgraduate course Oral History Method and Practice and Theory HST4034Z which provides skills training in oral history interviewing and interpretation an undergraduate course Memory Identity and History HST3037S explores trauma and memory across case studies of the Holocaust Apartheid and Rwanda and the representation of trauma through oral history films photographs cartoons and performances. The video clips are snippets from the following projects. Street Stories, a film documentary project tracking socio political issues and perceptions around race gender and belonging through the individual recollections of over 400 people who live or work on three arterial roads in Cape Town Bridging the Digital Divide. The program concentrates on the generational and cultural divisions between apartheid survivors and their descendants and the IT skills divide between what is perceived to be a developing country and first world technology This project seeks to build strategic partnerships that will result in strengthening scholarly dissemination. Performing Stories The CPM project Performing stories trained young people in 4 provinces between the ages of 1835 to use oral history recordings to create performative outcomes

Course Type:
Learning Module
Languages:
English
Material Type:
Video Lectures
Media Format:
Video
Conditions of Use:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5

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