Creative Activism: Art and Development Alternatives (HN)

该项目旨在建立一个研究者-活动家-实践者网络，探讨艺术和创造性活动如何有助于理解和制定发展替代方案。发展替代办法被理解为是指实践和思维的多样性，为主流发展办法（如新自由主义、提供服务、以援助为中心、等级制、创业）提供了替代办法，特别是在发展辩论和实践中很少听到的来自全球南方的不同声音和办法。尽管千年发展目标在实现具体目标方面取得了成功，但未能充分解决不平等问题以及贫穷和不公正的结构性原因。相比之下，可持续发展目标（SDG）提出了一个更全面和更具包容性的发展愿景，部分原因是制定目标的协商过程包含了“最贫穷和最脆弱”的声音（联合国，2015年，第6段）。因此，可持续发展目标可能为发展替代方案的出现提供空间，但前提是民间社会的大力参与，坚持重新安排发展优先事项。因此，要利用这一潜力，就需要有新的行动者参与发展决策，并采取新的办法，鼓励传统上被排除在发展进程之外的群体发表意见和参与。在这方面，该网络的宗旨和目标在五个主要方面具有创新性：（1）它将由约克大学应用人权中心和政治系与国际发展机构国际发展援助组织之间的学术-实践伙伴关系召集。2)该网络将汇集来自英国、孟加拉国和乌干达的艺术家、学者、活动家和发展实践者-孟加拉国和乌干达将作为区域中心，促进邻国的参与。3)该网络将批判性地探索艺术和创意行动主义-特别是破坏，表演和翻译的主题-如何表达，塑造和帮助提供那些在发展辩论中声音经常被边缘化的人所享有的发展替代方案，以及这些替代方案补充，增强或与可持续发展目标所设定的全球发展目标相矛盾的程度。4)该网络将部署创造性的方法，特别是使用虚构的未来场景，以引发辩论并形成替代方案。将在达卡和坎帕拉举办艺术和活动家讲习班，然后是国家反思讲习班，最后是反思讲习班。这一活动时间轴将为研究网络以及关于发展替代办法主题的一系列项目和资金申请创造势头。5)该网络将通过非洲发展援助组织和当地行为体，有明确的发挥影响的途径。该网络将通过四种途径产生影响：对非政府组织的政策、组织和实践影响;乌干达和孟加拉国的公众参与、外联和地方影响;方法;网络建设。我们最直接的影响将在国际非政府发展部门内实现，在联合王国和活动将发生的地区，但我们的目标也是通过我们与联合国教科文组织的合作，为国际组织（教科文组织，欧盟）的做法，思考和政策提供信息。在乌干达和孟加拉国这两个接受大量官方发展援助的国家，将通过与联合国开发计划署地方办事处和达卡和坎帕拉的其他地方行为体合作，在当地产生影响。

This project seeks to develop a researcher-activist-practitioner network to explore the ways in which art and creative activism can contribute to efforts to understand and enact development alternatives. Development alternatives is understood to mean the diversity of practice and thinking that offers an alternative to mainstream development approaches (e.g. neo-liberal, service delivery, aid-centred, hierarchical, entrepreneurial), in particular, diverse voices and approaches from the Global South rarely heard in development debates and practice. Despite their success in terms of meeting targets, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) failed to engage sufficiently with inequalities and the structural causes of poverty and injustice. In contrast, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a more comprehensive and inclusive vision of development, partly as a result of a consultative process to develop the goals that incuded the voices of the 'poorest and most vulnerable' (UN, 2015, para. 6). As such, the SDGs may offer space for development alternatives to emerge, but only if there is strong civil society participation to insist on the reordering of development priorities. Exploiting this potential, therefore, will require the involvement of new actors in development policy-making and new ways to encourage the voice and participation of groups traditionally left outside the development process. In this context, the aims and objectives of this network are innovative in five main ways: 1) It will be convened by an academic-practitioner partnership between the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) and Politics Department at the University of York, and the international development agency ActionAid. 2) The network will bring together artists, academics, activists and development practitioners from the UK, Bangladesh and Uganda - Bangladesh and Uganda will serve as regional hubs to facilitate participation from neighbouring countries. 3) The network will critically explore how art and creative activism - and specifically the themes of disruption, performance and translation - can articulate, shape and help deliver development alternatives privileged by those whose voices are often marginalised in development debates, and the extent to which these alternatives complement, enhance or are in tension with the global goals for development set out by the SDGs. 4) The network will deploy creative methodologies, specifically the use of fictional future scenarios, to trigger debate and shape alternatives. Art and activist workshops, followed by national reflection workshops, will be held in Dhaka and Kampala, followed by a final reflection workshop. This timeline of events will build momentum for the research network, and for a series of projects and funding applications on the theme of development alternatives. 5) Through ActionAid and local actors, the network will have clear pathways to impact. The network will pursue four pathways to impact: Policy, organisational and practice impacts on NGOs; Public engagement, outreach and local impact in Uganda and Bangladesh; Methodological; Network building. Our most immediate impacts will be achieved within the non-governmental development sector internationally, in the UK and in the regions where the events will take place, but our aim is also to inform the practices, reflections and policies of international organisations (UNESCO, European Union) through our collaboration with ActionAid. Local impact in Uganda and Bangladesh, both recipients of high levels of ODA, will be achieved by working in partnership with local offices of ActionAid and other local actors in Dhaka and Kampala.