Using Digital Tools to Challenge Xenophobia and Support International Development in South Africa

利用数字工具挑战仇外心理并支持南非的国际发展

• 批准号: AH/P005268/1
• 负责人: Paul Cooke
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP005268%2F1
• 关键词: Using; Digital; Tools; Challenge; Xenophobia

The project will work with groups of young people across the Gauteng province of South Africa to challenge the rising tide of xenophobia to be found in the country today, supporting the work of the international development NGO The Bishop Simeon Trust (BST) and the 20 Community Based Organisations (CBOs) it services in the region. Working in partnership with BST and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), the project will use the exhibitions, archive and other resources of JHGC to create a set of digital educational materials that will explore the lessons that can be learnt for South Africa today from the ethnic violence of the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide. The project will draw on the research findings of Cooke's AHRC project 'Experiencing the Digital World: the Cultural Value of Digital Engagement with Heritage' on the ways in which the co-production of digital heritage assets can, when time and resources permit, genuinely connect grassroots communities with heritage institutions, effecting a fundamental shift in the relationship between the two. Over the course of the project, the group will work together to make a range of digital resources, the precise nature of which will be decided via a process of knowledge exchange and co-produduction. It is envisaged that the project will produce short films, video and photographic essays, curate small digital exhibitions, research family histories or produce creative writing, all of which will be presented in such a way as to raise questions, draw comparisons with, and prompt discussion about the rise of contemporary xenophobic violence in South Africa. These resources will then be used as part of an educational programme to be rolled out across, and embedded within, the wider educational activities of all the CBOs. In so doing, the project will give BST the opportunity to further strengthen the CBOs, as well as explore new means of building the confidence and resilience of the children and young people supported. It will provide a safe space for the exploration of the highly sensitive issues around xenophobia and empower young people to consider root causes, consequences and means of resolution within their own communities. This will have the impact of helping to challenge prejudice at community level, leading to greater prioritization of xenophobia by community leaders and help identify long term and sustainable community-led solutions. The project will also give JHGC the opportunity to undertake a sustained period of work with CBOs that have a far more diverse demographic than the visitors they have worked with hitherto. It will develop the digital skill-base of colleagues working at the centre, allowing them to undertake future digital co-production projects, exploring how digital tools can provide new and better ways to deliver its broader mission 'to use the history of the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide to intervene directly in contemporary debates on human rights abuses, xenophobia, racism and bigotry'. The material produced will be incorporated into the centre's online offering and will be freely available to all. A selection of the materials will also be exhibited as a digital installation at the centre itself. Thus, the project responds to the 'Highlight Notice for International Development'. It will 'catalyse knowledge exchange, shared learning and capability development' between cultural organisations and diverse community groups and 'explore ways that arts and humanities research can inform approaches to inclusive participatory decision-making, community engagement, co-production, social innovation and user-led service design in an ODA recipient country', in order to make 'a significant contribution to the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development', specifically, Goal 16 to 'promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies', by 'challenging discrimination' and supporting 'participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

该项目将与南非豪登省的年轻人团体合作，挑战当今南非日益高涨的仇外情绪，支持国际发展非政府组织主教西蒙信托基金会（BST）及其在该地区服务的20个社区组织（CBO）的工作。该项目与BST和约翰内斯堡大屠杀与种族灭绝中心（JHGC）合作，将利用JHGC的展览，档案和其他资源创建一套数字教育材料，探索今天南非可以从大屠杀和卢旺达种族灭绝的种族暴力中吸取的教训。该项目将借鉴库克的AHRC项目“体验数字世界：数字参与遗产的文化价值”的研究成果，研究如何在时间和资源允许的情况下，共同制作数字遗产资产，真正将基层社区与遗产机构联系起来，实现两者之间关系的根本转变。在项目过程中，该小组将共同努力制作一系列数字资源，其确切性质将通过知识交流和共同制作的过程来决定。根据设想，该项目将制作短片、录像和摄影文章，策划小型数字展览，研究家族史或创作作品，所有这些都将以提出问题、与南非当代仇外暴力的兴起进行比较并引发讨论的方式呈现。然后，这些资源将作为教育方案的一部分，在所有社区组织更广泛的教育活动中推广和嵌入。通过这样做，该项目将使BST有机会进一步加强社区组织，并探索建立所支持的儿童和青年人的信心和复原力的新方法。它将为探讨仇外心理的高度敏感问题提供一个安全的空间，并使年轻人能够考虑其社区内的根源、后果和解决办法。这将有助于在社区一级挑战偏见，促使社区领导人更加重视仇外心理问题，并有助于确定长期和可持续的社区主导解决办法。该项目还将使JHGC有机会与社区组织进行持续的合作，这些组织的人口比他们迄今为止合作的游客更加多样化。它将发展在该中心工作的同事的数字技能基础，使他们能够开展未来的数字联合制作项目，探索数字化工具如何提供新的和更好的方式来实现其更广泛的使命“利用大屠杀和卢旺达种族灭绝的历史直接干预当代关于侵犯人权、仇外心理、种族主义和偏见的辩论”。制作的材料将纳入该中心的在线产品，并将免费提供给所有人。一些材料也将作为数字装置在中心展出。因此，该项目响应了“国际发展重点通知”。它将“促进文化组织和不同社区团体之间的知识交流，共享学习和能力发展”，并“探索艺术和人文研究如何为ODA受援国的包容性参与式决策，社区参与，共同制作，社会创新和用户主导的服务设计提供信息”，为了“为联合国2030年可持续发展议程做出重大贡献”，特别是目标16 "促进公正，和平和包容的社会“，通过”挑战歧视“和支持”参与性和代表性的各级决策“。

项目成果

Participatory Arts in International Development

国际发展中的参与性艺术

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Breed A