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Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts - Development Proposal

通过未归档/存档的过去想象未来 - 开发提案

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T005556/1
负责人：
Elena Isayev
金额：
$ 18.7万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005556%2F1
关键词：
Imagining Futures through Un Archived

项目摘要

Debates about the past are negotiations about the future. At the centre of these the archive plays a unique role as a trace of a moment, a trend, a life, a culture, an atrocity. It bears witness to the past, situating communities in the present and shaping the future. This is why decisions over what is to be collected, recorded or preserved are crucial, as this affects what will have future presence. The archive exposes the connection between memory and the persistence or transformation of identity. It is about whose story will continue to be told and how, and whose will be silenced. These issues become acute in moments of post-conflict, displacement and reconstruction. Our Network depends on linking expertise from regions where they are most urgent: the Middle East and Africa, specifically Lebanon and Tanzania. Our starting point is the early 20th century Maji Maji War in Tanzania, its landscape and memorialisation, accessible and in-accessible - in prisons and monasteries. It will act as the site of discourse for the team and, through sharing images and writings, bring in voices from Baddawi Camp in Lebanon. In re-imagining past or present places and lives from a distance, the analysis will trace surprising connections between (formerly/still) colonised, incarcerated, travelling and forcibly encamped people, exploring the ways that such an engagement can engender (real and imagined) lives and narratives beyond the confines of refugee encampment.The Network provides an opportunity for convergence and co-creation of knowledge, from geo-political contexts that rarely get to share ideas and experiences directly, especially the creation of South to South connections. Each represents a different point in a future: the crisis in the Middle East, the long-term post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and the colonising past of Europe. Within each of these moments the archive has a distinct power. We want to examine its role and articulate archiving practices that contribute to a future which promotes, not suppresses, just, peaceful and inclusive societies. Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges, self-archiving methods, joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, with dialogues across generations, gender and class, have a unique authority. In contrast, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and deprivation - all of which can create discord, tension and physical conflict - often result from insufficient knowledge and narrow understanding. They stem from a lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community's place in the global context. Imagining Futures will use the intrinsic power of the archive for its capacity to build confidence, to enhance understanding and reveal co-existing multiple narratives, and thus, to reduce conflict within and between groups, increasing the potential for sustainable peace. Our aim is to facilitate the opening-up and sensitive use of existing archives, to create new methods and types of archives and to articulate jointly what a different more egalitarian archive would be. This will be achieved through two Labs in Tanzania and Lebanon (with a supporting technologies workshop), that will co-produce, through engaging with existing archives, special and non-traditional archives in-situ; creative open digital tools; and protocol recommendations. These activities will allow for articulating shared questions, scoping case studies, and piloting approaches that can be scaled up, tested and developed in a wider Network Plus project. Our goal is to create methodologies and tangible proposals for the best archiving practices building towards a policy-manifesto, with heritage preservation as an element. Our wider ambition, through exposing cultural practices as important sites of negotiation, is to advocate for culture to be officially recognised as a humanitarian need.

关于过去的辩论就是关于未来的谈判。在这些档案的中心，作为一种时刻、一种趋势、一种生活、一种文化、一种暴行的痕迹，发挥着独特的作用。它见证了过去，定位了社区的现在，塑造了未来。这就是为什么关于要收集、记录或保存什么的决定是至关重要的，因为这会影响到未来的存在。档案揭示了记忆与身份的持久化或转换之间的联系。它关乎谁的故事将继续被讲述，如何被讲述，以及谁将被压制。这些问题在冲突后、流离失所和重建的时刻变得尖锐起来。我们的网络有赖于将中东和非洲，特别是黎巴嫩和坦桑尼亚等最紧迫地区的专门知识联系起来。我们的起点是20世纪初坦桑尼亚的玛吉-玛吉战争，它的风景和纪念碑，在监狱和修道院里可以进入和无法进入。它将作为团队的谈话场所，并通过分享图像和文字，引入黎巴嫩巴达维营地的声音。在从远处重新想象过去或现在的地方和生活时，分析将追溯(以前或现在仍然)被殖民、被监禁、旅行和被迫露营的人之间令人惊讶的联系，探索这种接触如何在难民营之外产生(真实和想象的)生活和叙事。网络提供了一个汇聚和共同创造知识的机会，来自很少直接分享想法和经验的地缘政治背景，特别是建立南南联系。每一个都代表着未来的不同点：中东危机，非洲长期的冲突后和解，以及欧洲的殖民历史。在每一个这样的时刻，档案都有一种独特的力量。我们希望审查它的作用，阐明有助于促进而不是压制公正、和平和包容性社会的未来的档案做法。利用当地知识的存档行为、自我存档方法、对要记住或忘记的事情的共同决策，以及跨代、跨性别和跨阶层的对话，具有独特的权威。相比之下，刻板印象、士绅化、歧视和剥夺--所有这些都可能造成不和谐、紧张和身体冲突--往往是知识不足和狭隘理解的结果。它们源于缺乏对共同历史和社区在全球背景下的地位的认识。想象未来“将利用档案的内在力量建立信任，增进了解，揭示共存的多重叙述，从而减少群体内部和群体之间的冲突，增加实现可持续和平的潜力。我们的目标是促进现有档案的开放和敏感利用，创造新的档案方法和类型，并共同阐明一个不同的、更平等的档案将是什么。这将通过设在坦桑尼亚和黎巴嫩的两个实验室(有一个辅助技术讲习班)实现，这两个实验室将通过与现有档案馆合作，在当地共同制作特殊和非传统档案；创造性的开放式数字工具；以及议定书建议。这些活动将允许阐明共同的问题，确定案例研究的范围，并试行可在更广泛的Network Plus项目中扩大、测试和开发的方法。我们的目标是为最佳档案做法制定方法论和切实的建议，以制定一项以遗产保护为要素的政策宣言。我们更广泛的抱负是，通过揭露文化习俗作为重要的谈判场所，倡导将文化正式承认为人道主义需求。