In the project Multivoiced Archive (2024-), we develop a digital platform to circulate ‘unheard voices’ through archived interviews, documenting systemic violence by institutional actors and their engagement with justice claims. By interconnecting historical injustices and revealing patterns through empirical evidence, we humanize society and make ‘multivoicedness’ productive, highlighting both dehumanizing and humanizing experiences. The archive shows how individual narratives can both reproduce and challenge dominant social discourses. Using the ‘dialogical self’ lens by Hubert Hermans, we explore the complexity of identities. Ultimately, we aim to amplify unheard voices, as these narratives are often missing from hegemonic historical accounts, hindering informed political and policy decisions.



The name of this archive refers to the concept of ‘multivoicedness’: voices of different groups and individuals, but also to the so-called ‘multi-voiced self’:

The dynamic multiplicity of voices heard in individual narratives, including (echoes of) voices of others and institutional and societal discourses.
— Hermans (2013)