Explosive Transformations: Cultural Resilience to Natural Hazard on St Vincent and Montserrat

该项目直接回应了STRAND 4：文化遗产、解释和再现以及翻译文化和关心未来主题，该项目审查了东加勒比圣文森特和蒙特塞拉特岛未来火山事件的应对和恢复如何受到根据过去经验形成的文化记忆和叙述的影响。该项目在概念和设计上是跨学科的，将文学研究与火山学、国际发展和负责岛屿未来应急反应的项目合作伙伴结合在一起，以便彻底调查历史上居民对严重自然威胁的反应方式、如何处理危机和如何进行恢复。通过这种方式，该项目通过对文学记录、口头传统和历史、歌曲和其他艺术表现形式进行比较分析，并与当地民众合作，了解火山在文化想象中的位置，从而探索灾害知识在多大程度上转化为火山风险的文化和科学经验，以及过去风险的文化经验塑造未来应对措施的程度。项目研究人员将与项目合作伙伴密切合作，结合我们不同的知识和专业知识、研究方法和实践，以考察文学研究如何有助于科学、社会和政治发展的新模式。该项目将结合文学学术来探索火山在加勒比文学和口头文化中的位置，档案研究以寻找官方殖民记录中隐藏的过去火山喷发经验的证据，关于圣文森特和蒙特塞拉特以及岛屿在英国的散居国外的焦点小组和对当地社区的采访，以及在东加勒比海举办的为期三天的研讨会，聚集了项目调查人员和研究人员、项目合作伙伴和其他受邀的利益攸关方，来自文学学者、作家和表演者、艺术人物、档案保管员和出版社，以及民间和社区团体，我们将在那里讨论我们的发现，并探索如何将这些发现最大限度地用于受火山危险影响的社区。

This project responds directly to Strand 4: Cultural Heritages, Interpretation, and Representation and the Translating Cultures and Care for the Future themes in its examination of the ways in which response to and recovery from future volcanic events on the Eastern Caribbean islands of St Vincent and Montserrat is shaped by the cultural memory and narratives developed through past experiences. The project is interdisciplinary in its conception and design, bringing literary studies together with volcanology, international development, and project partners responsible for future emergency response on the islands, to allow for a thorough investigation of the ways in which resident populations have responded historically to severe natural threat, how crises have been dealt with, and recovery undertaken. In this way the project explores the extent to which knowledge of disaster translates between cultural and scientific experiences of volcanic risk and the extent to which cultural experience of past risk shapes future response by offering a comparative analysis of the literary record, oral traditions and histories, songs, and other artistic expressions, and working with local populations to gain an understanding of the place of the volcano in the cultural imaginary. The PI, Co-Is, and Project Researcher will work closely with the Project Partners, combining our different sets of knowledge and expertise, research methodologies and practices in order to examine the ways that literary studies can be conducive to new models of scientific, social, and political development. The project will combine literary scholarship to explore the place of the volcano in Caribbean literature and oral culture, archival research to search out evidence of experiences of past eruptions that are hidden from the official colonial records, focus-groups and interviews with local communities on both St Vincent and Montserrat as well as the islands' diasporas in the UK, and a three day workshop in the Eastern Caribbean bringing together the Project Investigators and Researcher, the Project Partners, and other invited stakeholders from literary scholars, writers and performers, artistic figures, archivists and publishing houses, and civil and community groups where we will discuss our findings and explore the ways in which they can be put to the most use for the communities affected by volcanic risk.