Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation

In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador the UK began new oral history project, accompanying Afro-Ecuadorian women living in province Esmeraldas, as they interrogated articulated their heritage. The impact coronavirus, which has hit particularly hard, delayed workshops interviews we had planned, but also created space for an extended exploration ethics project. Over email video calls, research debated how to ensure that our work was truly led by its participants. How would secure recognition creative intellectual avoid appropriation ideas? And facilitate collective, community-based methodology when most eurocentric is so rooted individualist approaches? result this process collectively authored document, stands ethical agreement baseline, record joint commitment decolonise process. This wide-ranging conversation between community scholars explores complex, painstaking negotiations required create decolonial feminist practice transnational work.