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Exploring Resilience in South Sudan through an Arts Based Curriculum

通过艺术课程探索南苏丹的韧性

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S003894/1
负责人：
Tamsin Bradley
金额：
$ 6.94万
依托单位：
University of Portsmouth
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS003894%2F1
关键词：
Exploring Resilience South Sudan through

项目摘要

South Sudan is a country internationally characterised by its humanitarian crisis. 7 million people are in need of aid, and in March 2018, 5.3 million people - nearly half the population - were estimated to now face hunger. According to Mercy Corp (2018) 1 million people are facing emergency levels of food insecurity. Compared with the same time last year, this number reflects a 40 percent increase in the population facing severe food insecurity in the post-harvest season. South Sudan is among the highest internationally for prevalence of sexual violence towards women and girls. Whilst conflict has intensified violence against women from non partners, levels of intimate partner abuse has also risen sharply. Therefore the impact of the conflict needs to be understood as gendered. This image of starving, abused masses set against a backdrop of corruption and political violence dominates outsider perceptions and prompts the usual external 'western expert' driven response. The international development community in Juba is highly visible to such an extent that local forms of expression and activism are almost completely silenced. Yet Juba hosts in June its third film festive in which the country's rich artistic and cultural heritage will be on show under the headline 'Keeping Hope Alive'. Post development critiques of development evidence over and over how the mistakes of the past just reproduce themselves particularly at times of acute crisis. More space must be given to new innovative, creative ways of understanding what resilience means in the South Sudan context. Art communities in South Sudan have been channeling their creativity into dialogues exploring critical concepts such as peace, resilience and sustainability. However, as it currently stands these narratives have not been captured in research and do not feed into humanitarian discourses. This problematic context will be, at least partly addressed, by the creation of a new network that brings humanitarian actors into dialogue with university students and artists who specialise in verbal arts. The University of Juba currently has 10,000 students. University education in South Sudan as a colonial enterprise has not integrated local cultures into the curriculum at all. A prior oral history project coordinated by the Co-I (RL) revealed a great disconnect between "local cultures" / mother tongue education and the function of a university education in this setting. The workshop model we propose to develop through this network will represent a decolonialised alternative to explore the core concepts of humanitarianism, namely security, peace and resilience. This network will use the teaching of story telling as its core activity. Artist mentors will facilitate workshops with university students and humanitarian actors who will be encouraged to use this medium to reflect on what resilience means at different levels and for different groups of the population including the most vulnerable (women, children and the disabled). Network members will create their own stories based on their experiences of working and living in South Sudan. Additionally the story-tellers will contribute narratives from historical and community heritage. These stories will be placed into a digital archive and analysed for what they reveal about the different positions held by network members. We believe that this new network will be the beginning of addressing glaring gaps, silences and paradoxes at various levels; academic and humanitarian discussions on what resilience really means and make a vibrant, relevant contribution to the learning of university students. It will also support intercultural sharing and forms of peace building utilising new capacity that will be left by the network in students. Lastly, it will offer the humanitarian community a bridge into understanding the deep rooted experiences of conflict endured by South Sudanese people particularly the most vulnerable.

南苏丹是一个以人道主义危机为特征的国际国家。700万人需要援助，2018年3月，估计有530万人（近一半人口）面临饥饿。根据Mercy Corp（2018）的数据，有100万人面临粮食不安全的紧急水平。与去年同期相比，这一数字反映出收获后季节面临严重粮食不安全的人口增加了40%。南苏丹是国际上对妇女和女童的性暴力发生率最高的国家之一。虽然冲突加剧了非伴侣对妇女的暴力行为，但亲密伴侣虐待的程度也急剧上升。因此，冲突的影响需要理解为性别因素。在腐败和政治暴力的背景下，这种饥饿、受虐待的群众形象主导了局外人的看法，并促使外部“西方专家”做出通常的反应。朱巴的国际发展界非常引人注目，以至于当地的表达形式和活动几乎完全被压制。然而，朱巴将于6月举办第三届电影节，届时该国丰富的艺术和文化遗产将以“保持希望”为标题展出。发展后对发展的批评一次又一次地证明了过去的错误是如何重演的，特别是在严重危机的时候。必须给予更多的空间，以新的创新和创造性的方式来理解韧性在南苏丹的意义。南苏丹的艺术界一直在将他们的创造力引导到对话中，探索和平、复原力和可持续性等关键概念。然而，就目前的情况而言，这些叙述没有在研究中得到反映，也没有纳入人道主义论述。通过建立一个新的网络，使人道主义行动者与大学生和专门从事口头艺术的艺术家进行对话，至少部分地解决了这一问题。朱巴大学目前有1万名学生。南苏丹的大学教育作为一项殖民事业，根本没有将当地文化纳入课程。以前一个由协调员协调的口述历史项目显示，在这种情况下，“地方文化”/母语教育与大学教育的功能之间存在很大的脱节。我们建议通过该网络开发的研讨会模式将代表一种非殖民化的替代方案，以探索人道主义的核心概念，即安全，和平和复原力。该网络将以讲故事教学为核心活动。艺术家导师将促进与大学生和人道主义行为者的研讨会，鼓励他们使用这一媒介来思考复原力在不同层面和对包括最弱势群体（妇女、儿童和残疾人）在内的不同群体的意义。网络成员将根据他们在南苏丹工作和生活的经历创作自己的故事。此外，讲故事的人将贡献来自历史和社区遗产的叙述。这些故事将被放入一个数字档案，并分析它们揭示了网络成员所持的不同立场。我们相信，这个新的网络将是解决各级明显差距、沉默和矛盾的开始;关于复原力真正含义的学术和人道主义讨论，并为大学生的学习做出充满活力的相关贡献。它还将利用网络在学生中留下的新能力，支持不同文化间的分享和和平建设形式。最后，它将为人道主义界提供一座桥梁，帮助他们了解南苏丹人民，特别是最弱势群体所经历的根深蒂固的冲突经历。