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CHAGOS: Cultural Heritage Across Generations

CHAGOS：代代相传的文化遗产

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P008410/1
负责人：
Laura Jeffery
金额：
$ 10.28万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP008410%2F1
关键词：
CHAGOS Cultural Heritage Across Generations

项目摘要

CHAGOS is an urgent, innovative cultural heritage and community engagement project co-designed with members of the displaced Chagossian community. Between 1968 and 1973 the UK Government depopulated the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, and sent over 1,500 islanders to Mauritius and Seychelles, where the displaced community has faced ethnic discrimination and chronic impoverishment. In 2002, the UK Government awarded UK citizenship to Chagos islanders and their second-generation descendants, since when over two thousand members of the extended community have resettled in the UK (predominantly in Crawley and Manchester). Dispersed Chagossian families are making increasing use of digital communication technologies. Meanwhile, the number of native islanders has halved over the past forty years, with an average of two deaths per month over the past decade. There is great concern about the inevitable decline of elderly Chagos islanders who are the repositories of cultural knowledge about Chagos. Geographical dispersal, the dying elder generation, and a lack of cultural, social, and economic capital pose major challenges for the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge and artisanal skills in exile, which in turn poses challenges for collective identification amongst the dispersed community. This project was designed in collaboration with Chagossian groups and members of the extended Chagossian community with a view to overcoming these challenges. Working with a Consultant Linguist, a Poet-in-Residence, a Curator, and a Web Developer we will: co-organise and record intergenerational cultural heritage transmission workshops at which elders/experts will pass on cultural knowledge and artisanal skills to younger members of the community; co-curate exhibitions in Mauritius and the UK to showcase co-produced artefacts; design a community heritage website on which digital outputs will be made accessible to the dispersed community and others and preserved for future generations; deliver creative literacy workshops; produce dual-language (Kreol/English) publications to enhance Chagossians' literacy and creative expression; and contribute to the Mauritian Ministry of Arts and Culture's preparation of a dossier for the nomination of Chagossian sega music as UNESCO World Intangible Heritage.The project has the capacity to provide a range of impacts for our Project Partners (Chagos Refugees Group Mauritius, Chagos Refugees Group UK, and Crawley Museum), the wider Chagossian community, and the Mauritian Government, such as: addressing a history of marginalisation through recognition of past injustices; facilitating learning and capacity building for community members; enhancing community cohesion and interconnectedness; celebrating diversity and generating pride in cultural identity; promoting the value of engaging marginalised communities in museums; supporting the recognition of marginalised practices as UNESCO World Intangible Heritage; and contributing to debates on heritage as a living process and the application of Intellectual Property concepts to intangible cultural heritage.Innovative methods for assessing the extent to which the project achieves these impacts are embedded in project activities and include techniques such as creative literacy workshops run by our Poet-in-Residence in which Chagossians will reflect creatively on their engagement with Chagossian cultural heritage via this project, 'before and after' recorded interviews with participants to gauge the extent to which the workshops have met their expectations and fulfilled objectives regarding cultural heritage, questionnaires with exhibition attendees to generate visitor feedback, and web analytics to record the extent and content of engagement with online exhibitions via the websit

CHAGOS 是一个紧急、创新的文化遗产和社区参与项目，与流离失所的查戈斯社区成员共同设计。 1968 年至 1973 年间，英国政府减少了印度洋查戈斯群岛的人口，为美国在迪戈加西亚岛的军事基地让路，并将 1,500 多名岛民送往毛里求斯和塞舌尔，那里的流离失所者面临种族歧视和长期贫困。 2002年，英国政府向查戈斯岛民及其第二代后裔授予英国公民身份，此后已有超过2000名大社区成员在英国重新定居（主要在克劳利和曼彻斯特）。分散的查戈斯家庭越来越多地使用数字通信技术。与此同时，本土岛民的数量在过去四十年中减少了一半，过去十年中平均每月有两人死亡。人们非常担心查戈斯老年岛民不可避免的衰落，他们是查戈斯文化知识的宝库。地理分散、老一辈的垂死以及文化、社会和经济资本的缺乏，给流亡中的文化知识和手工艺技能的代际传承带来了重大挑战，这反过来又给分散社区的集体认同带来了挑战。该项目是与查戈斯团体和查戈斯扩展社区成员合作设计的，旨在克服这些挑战。我们将与语言顾问、驻场诗人、策展人和网络开发人员合作：共同组织和记录代际文化遗产传播研讨会，长辈/专家将在研讨会上向社区的年轻成员传授文化知识和手工技能；在毛里求斯和英国共同策划展览，展示共同制作的文物；设计一个社区遗产网站，分散的社区和其他人可以在该网站上获取数字输出，并为子孙后代保存；举办创意素养研讨会；制作双语（克里奥尔语/英语）出版物，以提高查戈斯人的读写能力和创造性表达；并为毛里求斯艺术和文化部准备查戈斯塞加音乐提名为联合国教科文组织世界非物质遗产的档案做出贡献。该项目有能力为我们的项目合作伙伴（毛里求斯查戈斯难民组织、英国查戈斯难民组织和克劳利博物馆）、更广泛的查戈斯社区和毛里求斯政府提供一系列影响，例如：通过承认过去的不公正而被边缘化的历史；促进社区成员的学习和能力建设；增强社区凝聚力和相互联系；庆祝多样性并产生对文化认同的自豪感；提升边缘化社区参与博物馆的价值；支持承认边缘化习俗为教科文组织世界非物质遗产；并为关于遗产作为一个生命过程以及知识产权概念在非物质文化遗产中的应用的辩论做出贡献。评估项目实现这些影响的程度的创新方法已融入到项目活动中，包括由我们的常驻诗人举办的创造性扫盲研讨会等技术，查戈斯人将在其中创造性地反思他们通过该项目“之前和之后”与查戈斯文化遗产的接触记录与参与者的访谈，以衡量研讨会在多大程度上满足了他们的期望并实现了有关文化遗产的目标，对展览参加者进行了问卷调查，以产生参观者的反馈，并进行网络分析，以记录通过网站参与在线展览的程度和内容