GCRF GlobalGRACE (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality)

近年来，国际上在提高对性别不平等的认识方面取得了重大进展。包括联合国在内的国际组织也在努力确保为男女创造更公平的未来，这是全球变化和可持续发展的核心。尽管取得了这些进展，但性别不平等仍然以各种形式存在，并以各种方式对全世界人民的健康和福祉产生负面影响，从限制获得机会和资源到助长基于性别的暴力。我们认识到国际机构、国家和政府在制定议程、制定进步立法和采取性别积极政策方面的重要性，以及那些站在推动这些变革前沿的政治活动家的工作。然而，这个项目的重点是如何从头开始建立和创造平等的文化。我们通过调查发展中国家的个人和组织应对和寻求解决现有不平等的创造性方式，并提高因此而被边缘化的人们的福祉，从而实现这一目标。我们的目标是揭示这些日常反应的方式，这些反应不仅解决了危害，而且通过创造新的和替代的平等文化，成为更广泛的社会影响的机会。拟议的研究如何以及以何种方式使用艺术，策展，文学和表演来应对这些挑战？按照小说家珍妮特·温特森的说法，我们的答案是：“一切都始于一个我们告诉自己关于自己的故事。”温特森的意思是，只要我们仍然有能力讲述自己和他人生活的不同故事，就有可能为我们所有人创造更公平、更可持续的未来。这就是我们对平等文化的理解：与人们一起工作，揭露不平等的情况，以及这种情况对他们和他们所关心的人的身心影响，并开始讲述他们的生活应该和可能是什么样子的不同故事。作为在人文和社会科学领域工作的学者，我们认为在这个过程中使用不同的艺术实践有相当大的优势，包括创意写作、舞蹈、展览、音乐、戏剧、表演或社交媒体。这些不同的多感官方法使人们能够分享他们生活中可能过于敏感和威胁而无法直接谈论的事情。它们不仅创造了讲述不同故事的机会，还创造了以新的、不同的方式讲述故事的机会。我们的项目聚集在一起，并在来自世界各地的人员和组织之间建立了新的伙伴关系。在这样做的过程中，我们将分享专业知识，并相互学习如何最好地利用这些基于艺术的研究实践，既使我们能够更好地倾听和理解人们讲述的故事，又能找到更好的方法利用这些故事创造条件，巩固并将加强经济发展和所有人的福利。

In recent years there have been significant advances made internationally to raise awareness about gender inequalities. International organisations including the United Nations have also sought to ensure that the creation of more equitable futures for women and men are at the heart of global change and sustainable development. Despite those advances, gender inequalities persist in myriad forms and negatively affect the health and wellbeing of people the world over in a variety of ways, from constraining access to opportunities and resources to fostering gender based violence. We recognise the importance of both international bodies and national states and governments in agenda setting, enacting progressive legislation and adopting gender positive policies, as well as the work of those political activists who are at the forefront of pressing for these changes. However, this project is focused on the way that cultures of equality are being built and created from the ground up. We do so by investigating the creative ways that people and organisations in developing countries respond to and seek to address existing inequalities and enhance the wellbeing of people marginalised as a result of those. Our aim is disclose the ways that those everyday responses not only address harms, but also become opportunities for broader societal impact through creating new and alternative cultures of equality. How and in what ways does the proposed research use art, curation, literature and performance to address these challenges? Our answer, following the novelist Jeanette Winterson, is that, 'Everything starts as a story we tell ourselves about ourselves'. By that Winterson means that so long as we remain capable of telling different stories about our own and other lives, there is the possibility of creating more equitable and sustainable futures for all of us. That is our understanding of what cultures of equality are about: working with and alongside people both to disclose the situations of inequality and the bodily and mental impacts of that on them and the people they care for, and to begin to tell different stories about what their lives ought and could be. As scholars working across the humanities and social sciences we think there are considerable advantages to using different arts based practice including creative writing, dance, exhibitions, music, theatre, performance or social media in this process. These different multisensory methods enable people to share things about their lives that may be too sensitive and threatening to talk about directly. They also create opportunities not just to tell different stories but also to tell them in new and different sorts of ways. Our project draws together and creates new partnerships between people and organisations from across the world in and beyond the academy. In so doing we will share expertise and learn from each other about how we can best use these arts based research practices, both to enable us to better hear and understand the stories people tell, and to find better ways of using those stories to create the conditions that underpin and will enhance the economic development and welfare of all people.