Re-thinking, and re-connecting, communities with, and through, water issues. Situated (place-time), and therapeutic narratives.

该项目将对近年来在艺术和人文学科及相关学科中开展的一系列工作进行审查，以了解联合王国及其他地区的社区如何受到洪水和相关水安全问题的影响并科普这些问题。这项研究旨在探讨如何在这项工作中设想“社区”，以及对社区和洪水及相关水问题的思考可以为其他社区方法带来什么见解，以及其他社区理论和方法如何反馈到水和其他环境问题的工作中。社区被视为复杂和有争议的构成，并不简单或容易地对应于地点和定居点的概念。但这项研究旨在探索物理位置、环境过程和洪水等灾害如何对共享地点和社区的人口产生影响。从中我们可以学到什么？英国发生了一系列非常严重的洪水（例如，Boscastle 2004年;卡莱尔2005年;格洛斯特郡和船体2007年;坎布里亚郡2009年），这些洪水显然对受影响社区产生了巨大而持久的影响，包括经济影响、健康和福祉影响，以及社区如何看待自己以及如何融入景观和更广泛的社会。《皮特评论》（2008年）中所述的政府应对洪水风险管理规划挑战的措施非常注重社区备灾，并将发展社区复原力作为制定洪水风险应对措施的更广泛措施的一部分。气候变化情景，包括可能的海平面上升和更多的极端降雨事件，再加上建造新家园的压力，意味着社区如何在洪水（和其他水问题）的风险下生活的问题将仍然是政治和学术议程的重点。除了洪水之外，社区一级的水安全问题也引起了其他重要关注，包括干旱（如2011年英格兰东部）以及如何有效管理集水区，以保护生物多样性和生态系统服务等资产。所有这些关于社区和水问题的方法都提出了一系列问题，比如社区是什么，它们如何“工作”（或不工作），洪水等地点问题在多大程度上在当地人口中创造了社区，而在其他意义上，社区可能不是一个有凝聚力的社区。通过水资源问题思考社区问题，探讨社区如何与内部和外部联系（例如，与共享河流集水区的其他社区）。研究将发展“情境叙事”的想法：社区如何发展其集体环境的过去，现在和未来的故事。这些变化可以是关于社区与水安全等环境问题的关系，也可以是关于社区本身如何运作以及如何与其他社区联系的变化。这类工作可以得到当地机关和机构的支持（例如当地博物馆）和社交媒体网络。研究还将发展“治疗叙事”的想法：- 如何以艺术和人文为基础的研究和实践（例如创意写作、摄影、口述历史）不仅可以帮助社区接受具有挑战性的水问题和经验，如洪水，而且也开始发展新的见解和同情心，与他们的社区内和与邻近社区的关系。

This project will conduct a review of a range of work which has taken place in recent years in arts and humanities and related subjects into how communities in the UK, and beyond, are affected by, and cope with, issues such as flooding and related questions of water security. The research seeks to explore how "community" has been envisaged in that work, and what insights thinking about communities and flooding and related water issues can bring to other approaches to communities, and how other theories and approaches to community can feed back into work on water and other environmental issues. Communities are seen as complex and contested formations, which do not simply or easily correspond to notions of place and settlement. But the research aims to explore how physical location, and environmental processes and hazards such as floods can have impacts on populations who share locations and neighbourhoods. What lessons can be leanrt from this?There have been a series of very significant floods in the UK (e.g. Boscastle 2004; Carlisle 2005; Gloucestershire and Hull 2007; Cumbria 2009 ) which have clearly had dramatic and long lasting impacts on affected communities which include economic impacts, health and well being impacts, and also how the community sees itself and how it is embedded in the landscape and in wider society. The government response to the challenge of planning for flood risk management, as in the Pitt Review (2008), focuses very much on community preparedness, and developing community resilience as part of a wider range of measures in developing flood risk response. Climate change scenarios, which include possible sea level rise and more extreme rainfall events, coupled with pressure to build new homes, means that questions of how communities live with the risk of flooding (and other water issues) will remain high on the political and academic agenda. Alongside flooding there are also other important concerns about water security issues at the community level which include drought (as in Eastern England 2011) and how water catchment areas are effectively managed for assets such as biodiversity and ecosystem services. All these approaches to communities and water issues raise a host of questions about what communities are, how they 'work' (or don't work), the extent to which a locational issue such as flooding creates community in a local population who, in other senses, might not function as a cohesive community. Thinking about community through water issues asks questions about how they are connected internally and externally (e.g. to other communities which share a river catchment area).The research will develop ideas of "situated narratives": how communities develop stories of their collective environmental past, present and future in landscape. These changes can be about community relations with environmental issues such as water security and also about changes in how the community itself works and how it is connected to other communities. This kind of work can be supported by local agencies and institutions (e.g. local museums) and also through social media networks.The research will also develop ideas of "therapeutic narratives": - how arts and humanities based research and practice (e.g. creative writing, photography, oral history) can help communities come to terms not only with challenging water issues and experiences, such as flooding, but also begin to develop new insights and empathies into relationships within their community and with neighbouring communities.