From the standpoint of reception history, we aim to amplify the voices of subaltern groups who do not have access to printed publications such as newspapers or memoirs to tell their story. Ego-documents and oral histories provide one method of amplifying these voices, but with the caveat that such sources are highly selective and often based on the happenstance of how the voices were recorded. Other techniques include teasing out testimonies from incidental sources, for instance court depositions in which common assumptions or viewpoints are expressed in the margins, or focusing on praxis over overt discourse: examining the circulation of material culture mobility patterns, sociability venues, visual culture, the appropriation of the built environment, to  name a few examples. What innovative techniques can we use to amplify the voices of the dispossessed in the city?