- Title
- 'Do you love the town you live in?' : narratives of place from Australian mining towns
- Creator
- Eklund, Antoinette; Eklund, Erik
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62825
- Identifier
- vital:6015
- Identifier
- ISSN:1833-1882
- Abstract
- This article combines the authors' disciplinary locations in history and literary studies, exploring personal narratives as revealed in oral history from residents of Australian mining towns. These narratives operate as a kind of counter or vernacular history, presenting hidden stories not well represented in Australian national history and culture. We argue that regional vernacular knowledge, borne of local experience and culture some distance from the major cities, is somewhat difficult to access through predominantly city-based, profesional academic networks.
- Relation
- International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Vol. 3, no. 7 (2008), p. 53-58
- Rights
- Copyright Common Ground
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Oral history; Narrative; Interview techniques; Regional history; Local history; Mining towns; 1608 Sociology
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