Ugandan Youth and Creative Writing: New Perspectives on Conflict and Development
乌干达青年与创意写作:冲突与发展的新视角
基本信息
- 批准号:AH/P008143/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 9.51万
- 依托单位:
- 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
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项目摘要
Since its independence in 1962, Uganda has been beset with a series of conflicts. Ranging from cross-border 'spillover' conflict from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the high-profile North/South conflict led by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, these incidents of violence and terror have characterised Uganda's post-colonial history. Extant development studies suggest a link between deep-seated ethnic rivalries forged during the colonial era, uneven economic development, corruption in governance and the asymmetrical distribution of resources as key drivers of conflict in the country (Otunnu, 'Causes and Consequences of the War in Acholiland'; ACCS, 'Northern Uganda Conflict Analysis'). While the main brunt of conflict has been carried by the north, Uganda as a whole has been beset by its effects. Young people have been made particularly vulnerable, both in the high-profile cases of child recruitment in conflict, including the sexual trafficking of young women and girls, and in the overall effects of unemployment, instability and political conflict across the nation as a whole.While a number of high-level studies, development analyses and policy recommendations exist in the Ugandan context, these by and large fail to escape the pitfalls associated with development discourse, particularly as it pertains to the African continent, with the result of disempowering local populations and de-centring the everyday experience of conflict and its afterlives. As James Ferguson ('Global Shadows') argues, the rhetorical and discursive apparatus around development cannot be decoupled from its material effects and, more often than not, inefficacy in practice (see also Escobar, 'Encountering Development'). These complaints have become commonplace in postcolonial approaches to African development, where the perceived distance between the lived experience of African populations and discursive theorisation about them has been blamed for the continuation of colonialist patterns of exploitation (eg Jolly, 'Global Development Goals: The United Nations Experience'). The proposed research is a pilot study which seeks to redress these pitfalls by developing interdisciplinary methods to enable new understandings of conflict, its legacies and its impact among youth populations, using creative writing as a tool for self-expression and empowerment. The proposed research seeks to enable the agency of Ugandan youth, whilst minimising the risks of trauma associated with testimonial narrative through the leveraging of imaginative forms. At the same time, creative fiction offers the possibility for imagining other lives and other minds, and thereby presents the best potential for the development of empathetic identification across communal groupings (Keen; Nussbaum). This research exploits these characteristics, using youth-produced short fiction as the basis for teaching materials aimed at secondary-schools in Uganda which will use the empathetic potential of literary writing to develop cross-ethnic forms of solidarity and enable larger-scale dialogue around youth needs post-conflict. The research will also use these writings as critical discursive material which will enable a re-consideration of development needs in Uganda, uncovering the submerged narratives and impacts of conflict's legacy through the medium of expressive fiction. By re-centring young Ugandans as agents of knowledge production, this project foregrounds heretofore unheard voices and unseen development needs.Partnering with Writivism, run by the Kampala-based Centre for African Cultural Excellence, and the Centre for African Studies at Uganda Martyrs University, the project will lead to significant local benefits including the development of: pedagogical material and educational practice; research capacity; co-produced knowledge exchange; increased networks of influence; new audiences; and vernacular interventions into high-level development policy.
自1962年独立以来,乌干达一直饱受一系列冲突的困扰。从南苏丹和刚果民主共和国的跨境“溢出”冲突,到科尼上帝抵抗军领导的备受瞩目的南北冲突,这些暴力和恐怖事件成为乌干达后殖民历史的特征。现有的发展研究表明,殖民时代形成的根深蒂固的种族对抗、经济发展不平衡、治理腐败和资源分配不对称之间存在联系,是该国冲突的关键驱动因素(Otunnu,“阿乔利兰战争的原因和后果”;ACCS,“乌干达北部冲突分析”)。虽然冲突的主要冲击来自北部,但整个乌干达都受到其影响的困扰。无论是在冲突中招募儿童的引人注目的案件中,包括对年轻妇女和女孩的性贩运,还是在失业、不稳定和整个国家的政治冲突的总体影响中,年轻人都变得特别脆弱。虽然在乌干达的背景下存在一些高水平的研究、发展分析和政策建议,但这些大体上未能摆脱与发展话语相关的陷阱,特别是当它涉及非洲大陆时, 其结果是剥夺了当地居民的权力,并分散了冲突及其后果的日常经历。正如詹姆斯·弗格森(《全球阴影》)所言,围绕发展的修辞和话语机制不能与其物质效果脱钩,而且往往与实践中的低效脱钩(另见埃斯科巴《遭遇发展》)。这些抱怨在非洲发展的后殖民方法中已变得司空见惯,非洲人民的生活经历与关于他们的话语理论之间的明显差距被归咎于殖民主义剥削模式的延续(例如Jolly,“全球发展目标:联合国的经验”)。拟议的研究是一项试点研究,旨在通过开发跨学科方法来纠正这些陷阱,以利用创意写作作为自我表达和赋权的工具,使人们对冲突、其遗产及其对青年群体的影响有新的理解。拟议的研究旨在使乌干达青年能够发挥作用,同时通过利用富有想象力的形式最大限度地减少与证词叙述相关的创伤风险。与此同时,创造性小说提供了想象其他生活和其他思想的可能性,从而呈现出跨群体群体移情认同发展的最佳潜力(Keen;Nussbaum)。这项研究利用了这些特点,利用青年创作的短篇小说作为乌干达中学教材的基础,利用文学写作的同理心潜力来发展跨种族的团结形式,并围绕冲突后青年的需求进行更大规模的对话。该研究还将使用这些著作作为批判性的话语材料,使人们能够重新考虑乌干达的发展需求,通过表现性小说的媒介揭示隐藏的叙事和冲突遗产的影响。通过将乌干达年轻人重新定位为知识生产的推动者,该项目突出了迄今为止闻所未闻的声音和未见的发展需求。该项目与坎帕拉非洲文化卓越中心和乌干达烈士大学非洲研究中心运营的书写主义合作,将为当地带来重大效益,包括开发:教学材料和教育实践;研究能力;共同制作知识交流;扩大影响力网络;新观众;以及对高层发展政策的本土干预。
项目成果
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Odokonyero: A Writivism Anthology of Short Fiction by Emerging Ugandan Writers
Odokonyero:乌干达新兴作家短篇小说的书写主义选集
- DOI:
- 发表时间:2018
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Krishnan
- 通讯作者:Krishnan
Creative Writing as Literary Activism: Decolonial Perspectives on the Writing Workshop
作为文学行动主义的创意写作:写作工作坊的非殖民视角
- DOI:10.1080/23277408.2020.1818494
- 发表时间:2020
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Bwa Mwesigire B
- 通讯作者:Bwa Mwesigire B
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Creative Writing and Translation for Peace
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