Whose Story?: Re-Integrating Self and Community through Narratives of Social Inclusion and Exclusion

目前的项目是让一个团队花四个月的时间为“社会排斥”和故事在人们生活中的作用的大型研究发展想法和实际安排。下面的段落描述了我们将要开发的项目。社会排斥发生在人们没有抓住教育机会和就业机会，反而发现自己的生活中反社会行为、犯罪和健康状况不佳可能发挥太大作用的时候。这对社会排斥已主导社会和文化生活结构的社区是一项挑战，但对整个社会也是一项巨大挑战。“谁的故事？”是一个旨在通过将讲故事和叙事置于其研究方法的中心来改变社会对社会排斥的理解的项目。我们的标题抓住了一个想法，首先，生活在社会排斥的控制下的人会感到没有发言权，失去了身份；其次，社会排斥和包容可以在不同时期定义相同的民族和社区。我们的项目是警惕社区的地方和归属方式，有复杂的历史。我们对故事和叙述的强调也与一个重要的事实有关：讲故事就是分享一些东西，反映一个人在社会和文化关系网络中的自我。讲故事是一种可以挑战社会排斥的行动形式。从讲故事中收集的数据可以告诉我们很多关于排斥性的感受和理解；它还提供了改变行为和期望视野的手段。我们的项目汇集了来自英国不同地理位置的研究人员，使我们能够构建一个具有代表性的关于社区生活中排斥和包容的观点；同时，最重要的是，它为我们提供了使用行动研究的基础，以创新和有益的方式将社区联系起来。我们的研究团队也来自不同的学术学科和实践背景：从医学人文、精神病学历史、社区艺术组织、管理研究和文化创业的专业知识；更传统的学术学科，如哲学，文学批评和理论，以及文化史。这种丰富的专业知识组合将使我们能够开发出一系列创新的干预方法，以改善社区连通性。我们的方法将包括准实验设计（一种广泛用于心理学和社会科学实验的技术），以及由哲学家、理论家和文化历史学家如米哈伊尔·巴赫金、保罗·里科尔和帕特里克·乔伊斯开创的叙事分析的批判理论。他们将汇集在一起，以产生具有批判性创新的跨学科工作方法。我们致力于利用叙事来发挥作用并产生积极的社会影响，这是基于我们在认知行为疗法中讲述故事的承诺，其中重点是理解行为并以积极的方式改变它。我们的工作方式将以行动研究为基础，我们将首先让我们的第三部门合作伙伴和社区代表充分参与讨论和设计我们的数据收集和分析方法、干预措施和战略。

The present project is for a team to spend four months to develop ideas and practical arrangements for a large study of 'social exclusion' and the role of stories in people's lives. The paragraph below describes the project we will be developing.Social exclusion occurs when people fail to take up educational opportunities and employment, and find themselves instead living lives in which anti-social behaviour, crime, and poor health can come to play too large a role. This is a challenge for the communities where social exclusion has come to dominate the social and cultural fabric of life, but it is also a great challenge for society as a whole. "Whose Story?" is a project that aims to make a difference to society's understanding of social exclusion, by placing storytelling and narrative at the centre of its research methods. Our title captures the idea, first, that people living in the grip of social exclusion can feel voiceless and bereft of an identity; and, second, the idea that social exclusion and inclusion can define the same peoples and communities at different times. Our project is alert to communities as places and ways of belonging that have complicated histories. Our emphasis on stories and narratives also works with an important truth: that to tell a story is to share something, and reflect one's self in a network of social and cultural relationships. Storytelling is a form of action that can begin to challenge social exclusion. The data collected from storytelling can tell us a great deal about the terms in which exclusion is felt and understood; it also provides the means of changing behaviours and horizons of expectation. Our project has assembled a team of researchers from diverse geographical locations in the UK, enabling us to construct a representative range of perspectives on exclusion and inclusion in community life; while also, and crucially, providing us with the basis for using action research to connect communities in innovative and beneficial ways. Our team of researchers also comes from diverse academic-disciplinary and practice-led backgrounds: from expertise in medical humanities, the history of psychiatry, community arts organisation, management studies and cultural entrepreneurship; to the more traditional academic disciplines of philosophy, literary criticism and theory, and cultural history. This rich mix of expertise will enable us to develop an innovative range of methods for intervening to improve community connectedness. Our methods will range from quasi-experimental design (a technique widely used in psychological and social scientific experimentation), to critical theories of narrative analysis pioneered by philosophers, theorists and cultural historians such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Ricoeur and Patrick Joyce. They will be brought together to produce critically innovative interdisciplinary methods of working. Our commitment to using narrative to make a difference and achieve positive social impact is grounded in our commitment to storytelling in cognitive behavioural therapies, where the emphasis is on understanding behaviour with a view to changing it, positively. Our ways of working will be grounded in action research, and we will begin by fully involving our third sector partners and community representatives in the discussion and design of our methods, interventions, and strategies for data collection and analysis.