Home, Crisis and the Imagination

家、危机和想象力

• 批准号: AH/K006118/1
• 负责人: Bridget Bennett
• 金额: $ 3.36万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK006118%2F1
• 关键词: Home; Crisis; Imagination

Home has recently become a significant subject of both academic research and popular interest. Research into the material cultures of home has shed light on the historical continuities and discontinuities of lived experience. In popular culture the family or childhood home has been the subject of both literary memoirs (12 Edmondstone Street, David Malouf) and a popular television series (The House that Made Me, Channel 4). At the same time, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent development of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have reinvigorated the resonances between home and nation in a time of global insecurity. The ongoing world recession was in part precipitated by the subprime mortgage disaster and the subsequent massive waves of foreclosure on people's homes. Through the lens of crisis, the proposed research network aims to produce a fuller understanding of the relationship between home and the imagination at this time of renewed interest in, and transformation of, the home. We believe that a reflection on 'home and crisis' can give insight into how these simple yet resonant terms come to denote more complex categories, both upholding and contesting beliefs about the status of the home, as a physical location and an imagined or representational space.We are experiencing a period of global crisis operating at multiple levels, private and public, economic and political, environmental, religious. Crises are not new, of course, and understanding the legacy of previous experiences can teach us important lessons about how they have been thought about and managed historically. At the same time, exploring literary, visual and material cultures of home through a focus on crisis produces a common thread through which distinct features of home's representational power become visible. We are especially interested in how the links between home and crisis can be articulated not only in imaginative texts - novels, poems, films, etc. - but also through the many material artefacts and technologies of home and their representation by photographs, family memorabilia, letters, etc. As both a physical location and an object of representation, home functions as an important site through which individuals and societies make sense of their pasts and presents as they map their futures.The three workshops will bring different disciplinary approaches and methodologies into dialogue, and in doing so explore the ramified meanings of the wider 'Care for the Future' theme. We want to ask how we can care for the future by understanding and learning from the past, and drawing on its wisdom in the present. In particular, through theoretically-informed close reading of literary and cultural texts we want to examine how the imagination performs its vital transformative work. We suggest that, as our recent researches have shown, a humanities-based initiative can have huge value when considering political and other contexts that might more traditionally be the remit of social science. A collaborative approach that extends our individual expertise will allow us to address key questions about home, crisis and the imagination, and ask how work in the humanities can best address them. Through the remit we have given ourselves we will seek to explore the particular ways in which imaginative works have, over history, represented domestic crisis, whether on a private or international scale. Today it is becoming ever clearer how far 'home' policy and global pressures are interconnected, and we believe it is pertinent to ask what contribution the humanities can make to interpreting crisis or potential catastrophe. To be careful, as well as caring, would seem to be increasingly a priority.

家最近已成为学术研究和大众兴趣的重要课题。对家庭物质文化的研究揭示了生活经验的历史连续性和不连续性。在流行文化中，家庭或童年的家一直是文学回忆录（埃德蒙斯通街 12 号，大卫·马洛夫）和流行电视连续剧（《造就我的房子》，第四频道）的主题。与此同时，2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击事件以及美国国土安全部随后的发展，在全球不安全的时期重新激发了家国之间的共鸣。当前的世界经济衰退在一定程度上是由次贷灾难和随后出现的大规模房屋止赎浪潮引发的。通过危机的视角，拟议的研究网络旨在在人们对家庭重新产生兴趣和改造的时期，更全面地了解家庭与想象力之间的关系。我们相信，对“家与危机”的反思可以深入了解这些简单但引起共鸣的术语如何表示更复杂的类别，既支持又质疑关于家的地位的信念，作为一个物理位置和一个想象或代表性的空间。我们正在经历一个在私人和公共、经济和政治、环境、宗教等多个层面上运作的全球危机时期。当然，危机并不新鲜，了解以往经验的遗产可以给我们提供重要的教训，让我们了解历史上如何思考和管理危机。与此同时，通过关注危机来探索家庭的文学、视觉和物质文化，产生了一条共同的线索，通过这条线索，家庭的代表性力量的独特特征变得可见。我们特别感兴趣的是如何不仅通过富有想象力的文本（小说、诗歌、电影等）来阐明家庭与危机之间的联系，而且还通过家庭的许多物质工艺品和技术及其通过照片、家庭纪念品、信件等的表现来表达家庭与危机之间的联系。作为一个物理位置和一个表现对象，家庭是一个重要的场所，个人和社会在规划未来时可以通过它来理解他们的过去和现在。这三个 研讨会将把不同的学科方法和方法引入对话中，并在此过程中探索更广泛的“关爱未来”主题的分支含义。我们想问的是，我们如何通过理解和学习过去，并在当下汲取智慧来关爱未来。特别是，通过对文学和文化文本进行有理论依据的仔细阅读，我们希望研究想象力如何发挥其重要的变革作用。我们认为，正如我们最近的研究表明的那样，在考虑政治和其他背景时，基于人文学科的举措可能具有巨大的价值，而这些背景可能更传统地属于社会科学的职权范围。扩展我们个人专业知识的协作方法将使我们能够解决有关家庭、危机和想象力的关键问题，并询问人文学科的工作如何才能最好地解决这些问题。通过我们赋予自己的职责，我们将寻求探索富有想象力的作品在历史上代表国内危机的特殊方式，无论是在私人还是国际范围内。今天，“国内”政策和全球压力之间的相互关联程度变得越来越清楚，我们认为有必要询问人文学科可以为解释危机或潜在灾难做出什么贡献。小心和关心似乎越来越成为首要任务。

项目成果

"The Silence Surrounding the Hut": Architecture and Absence in Wieland

“小屋周围的寂静”：维兰德的建筑与缺席

• DOI: 10.1353/eal.2018.0042
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Early American Literature
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Bennett B

Imagining the Place of Home

想象家的地方

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Bennett, B K G

The Crisis of Restoration: Mary Rowlandson's Lost Home

恢复危机：玛丽·罗兰森失去的家园

• DOI: 10.1353/eal.2014.0028
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Early American Literature
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Bennett B