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Turning Fylingdales inside out: making practice visible at the UK's ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station.l

将费灵戴尔斯彻底颠覆：让英国弹道导弹预警和空间监测站的实践可见。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S013067/1
负责人：
Rachel Woodward
金额：
$ 95.15万
依托单位：
Newcastle University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS013067%2F1
关键词：
Turning Fylingdales inside out making

项目摘要

RAF Fylingdales is the UK's ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station. It is part of the UK/US nuclear deterrent, watching space for signs of missile activity, and it also monitors a swathe of northern hemispheric space. The latter function is vital for the maintenance of economic and social life around the world; RAF Fylingdales tracks the 1,700 operational military and civilian satellites in orbit, including those that enable technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to function. It is part of the infrastructure that supports the International Space Station. It also monitors the 43,000 pieces of space debris which orbit earth. This research aims to turn RAF Fylingdales inside out, making its practices and functions visible and demystifying its operations. The Royal Air Force, which operates this highly secure site, is acutely aware of the need for greater public knowledge and understanding about the station and its functions, and are project partners in the research. In the absence of wider public understanding, fictions and fantasies about the station dominate - that it hosts nuclear weapons, for example, or that it has privileged insight into extra-terrestrial life-forms, or it is involved in monitoring our electronic communications (it doesn't do any of these). The research team are motivated by a commitment to greater academic and public understanding of space monitoring and nuclear deterrence, which remain little known and poorly understood beyond specialist circles.The research has three objectives: conceptual innovation, empirical discovery and public engagement. The conceptual objective is to understand RAF Fylingdales in a new way. Most conventional academic analyses of nuclear deterrence and space monitoring focus on the abstract international and national political systems that govern defence and security. However, these approaches completely obscure the reality that nuclear deterrence and space monitoring only exist because people, working in a particular place, make them happen. In this research, we focus on nuclear deterrence and space monitoring as socially constituted and produced. We will examine the daily workplace practices undertaken by a range of people employed at the site, from radar monitoring to grounds maintenance. We will consider how geography influences Fylingdales' siting, capabilities and functionality. We will investigate its varied space monitoring and nuclear deterrence operations, both in the present and historically, drawing on the station's archive of documents, photographs and objects explaining the site and its history. Ultimately, we want to consider and reveal RAF Fylingdales as an assemblage of social, technical, nuclear, military and industrial components that together bring nuclear deterrence and space monitoring into being. The research will use three core methods. Creative arts practice will be used with the archive's documents and material objects, using drawing, sculpture and audio-visual multi-media experimentation to investigate how RAF Fylingdales' functions are constituted. Interviews and ethnomethodological observation will help us understand, from the people who work there, how the station operates by looking in detail at what its workforce do, individually and as teams. Cultural geography fieldwork in and around the site will give us access to the military geographies, landscapes and experiences of this place. We will communicate our research findings through a programme of public activities, academic publications and research briefings for key organisations. We will work with our steering group to develop strategies for future sustainable and realistic management of RAF Fylingdales' archive and its resources. Subject to security clearance, much of the data collected will be made available for public use at the end of the project through deposition in digital format in publicly accessible archives.

英国皇家空军费林代尔斯是英国的弹道导弹预警和空间监测站。它是英美核威慑力量的一部分，观察太空中导弹活动的迹象，还监测北半球的一大片空间。后一项职能对维持世界各地的经济和社会生活至关重要；英国皇家空军费林代尔斯跟踪在轨运行的1700颗军用和民用卫星，包括那些使全球定位系统等技术能够发挥作用的卫星。它是支持国际空间站的基础设施的一部分。它还监测围绕地球运行的43,000块空间碎片。这项研究旨在彻底改变英国皇家空军费林代尔，使其实践和功能可见，并揭开其行动的神秘面纱。运营这一高度安全站点的皇家空军敏锐地意识到需要公众更多地了解和了解空间站及其功能，并是研究的项目合作伙伴。在缺乏更广泛的公众理解的情况下，关于空间站的虚构和幻想占据了主导地位-例如，它拥有核武器，或者它拥有对外星生命形式的特权洞察，或者它参与了监控我们的电子通信(它不做任何这些事情)。研究小组的动机是致力于增进学术和公众对空间监测和核威慑的理解，这些领域在专家圈子之外仍然鲜为人知，知之甚少。研究有三个目标：概念创新、经验发现和公众参与。概念上的目标是以一种新的方式理解英国皇家空军费林代尔斯。对核威慑和空间监测的大多数传统学术分析侧重于管理国防和安全的抽象的国际和国家政治制度。然而，这些方法完全掩盖了一个现实，即核威慑和空间监测之所以存在，只是因为在特定地方工作的人促使它们发生。在这项研究中，我们重点关注核威慑和空间监测作为社会构成和产生的。我们将审查在工地受雇的一系列人员的日常工作做法，从雷达监测到地面维护。我们将考虑地理位置如何影响费林代尔的选址、能力和功能。我们将利用空间站的文件、照片和解释该地点及其历史的物品的档案，调查其在现在和历史上的各种空间监测和核威慑行动。最终，我们希望将英国皇家空军费林代尔视为社会、技术、核、军事和工业组成部分的集合，这些组成部分共同带来了核威慑和空间监测。这项研究将使用三种核心方法。创造性的艺术实践将与档案馆的文件和实物一起使用，使用绘画、雕塑和视听多媒体实验来调查英国皇家空军费林代尔的职能是如何构成的。采访和民族方法论观察将帮助我们从在那里工作的人那里了解空间站是如何运作的，方法是详细了解其员工个人和团队的工作。遗址内和周围的文化地理实地考察将使我们了解这个地方的军事地理、风景和经验。我们会透过一系列公众活动、学术刊物和为主要机构举办的研究简报会，传达我们的研究成果。我们将与我们的指导小组合作，为未来可持续和现实地管理英国皇家空军费林代尔斯的档案及其资源制定战略。在安全许可的情况下，收集的大部分数据将在项目结束时通过以数字格式存放在可供公众查阅的档案中供公众使用。