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Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts

通过未归档的过去想象未来

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T008199/1
负责人：
Elena Isayev
金额：
$ 253.53万
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：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT008199%2F1
关键词：
Imagining Futures through Un Archived

项目摘要

Archives are sites of negotiation about visions of the future. Decisions of what is to be collected, accessed or preserved tend to privilege certain narratives over others. It is about whose story will continue to be told and how, and whose silenced. These questions are acute in moments of post-conflict, displacement and reconstruction. Our Network depends on linking expertise from contexts where these issues are paramount: in Lebanon, Tanzania, Ghana, South Africa, and if possible Syria. These are our starting points to explore and build methodologies of egalitarian archiving practice that allows for co-existence and recognition of multiple experiences of the past, with dialogue across generations, gender, class, ethnicities, status categories and multiple stakeholders. Imagining Futures embraces archives as intrinsically constructed and multi-vocal. This is crucial as we seek to address legacies from difficult and contested pasts. We test dissensus methods that facilitate open dialogue and challenge a singular 'we'. Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges and joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, have a unique authority. They counter, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and the lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community's place in the global context. We use the intrinsic power of the archive for its capacity to build confidence, enhance understanding and reveal co-existing narratives, to reduce conflict within and between groups, enhancing the potential for sustainable peace. 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. 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 examine its role and articulate archiving practices that contribute to a future which promotes, not suppresses, just, peaceful and inclusive societies. The urgency for new approaches stems from the situation in the Middle East, and seeks to capture, support and enhance methodologies arising from contexts of post-conflict reconciliation in Africa. In this moment of intense post-war reconstruction, funded by billions in foreign aid ($1.2 b for Syria), to fuel revitalisation and stability, is where the potential for our project is most critical. Master-plans have led to rapid urbanisation (from 50-80% in Syria), favouring a small sector of society, at the cost of local needs, interests, and non-monumental cultural sites. Well-meaning initiatives can become acts of violence by rupturing communities' crucial links between the intangible lived heritage and the tangible. This insensitivity contributes to further destruction, displacement and reification of sectarian divisions. It also excludes interests of millions who live in precarious conditions as refuge and asylum-seekers, with many in camps.Our aim is to facilitate the opening-up and sensitive use of existing archives to create new ones and articulate methods for egalitarian archival practices that respect multiple and divergent narratives. This will be achieved through 4 investigative Labs across diverse socio-political and temporal contexts in Lebanon, Ghana and Tanzania, and essential activities beyond them, such as the Commissions. Through engaging with existing archives, special and non-traditional archives in-situ, creative open digital tools, open-studio events with different publics, our goal is to build towards a co-produced policy-manifesto, in dialogue with governing bodies and supra-state organisations as e.g. ICCROM. 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.

档案馆是商讨未来愿景的场所。关于收集、获取或保存什么的决定往往会使某些叙述优先于其他叙述。这是关于谁的故事将继续被讲述，如何讲述，以及谁的沉默。这些问题在冲突后、流离失所和重建时期尤为严重。我们的网络依赖于将这些问题至关重要的背景下的专业知识联系起来：在黎巴嫩，坦桑尼亚，加纳，南非，如果可能的话还有叙利亚。这些是我们探索和建立平等存档实践方法的起点，这种方法允许共存和承认过去的多种经验，并进行跨代、性别、阶级、种族、地位类别和多个利益攸关方的对话。想象未来拥抱档案作为内在构造和多声音。在我们努力处理困难和有争议的过去遗留下来的问题时，这一点至关重要。我们测试disissus方法，促进公开对话和挑战一个单一的“我们”。利用当地知识和联合决策来记住或忘记什么的归档行为具有独特的权威。他们反对陈规定型观念、中产阶级化、歧视以及对共同历史和社区在全球背景下的地位缺乏认识。我们利用档案的内在力量来建立信任，增进理解，揭示共存的叙述，减少群体内部和群体之间的冲突，增强可持续和平的潜力。该网络为汇集和共同创造知识提供了机会，这些知识来自很少直接分享想法和经验的地缘政治背景。每一个都代表着未来的不同点：中东的危机，非洲冲突后的长期和解，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。我们研究了它的作用，并阐明了有助于促进未来的归档实践，而不是压制，公正，和平和包容的社会。迫切需要采取新的办法是因为中东的局势，并力求掌握、支持和加强非洲冲突后和解背景下产生的方法。在这个紧张的战后重建时刻，由数十亿美元的外国援助（叙利亚为12亿B美元）资助，以促进振兴和稳定，是我们项目的潜力最关键的地方。总体规划导致了快速的城市化（在叙利亚从50-80%），有利于社会的一小部分，以当地需求，利益和非纪念性文化遗址为代价。善意的倡议可能会成为暴力行为，因为它会破坏社区在非物质生活遗产和物质生活遗产之间的重要联系。这种不敏感的态度造成了进一步的破坏、流离失所和宗派分裂的具体化。它还排除了数百万生活在不稳定条件下的难民和寻求庇护者的利益，其中许多人在营地。我们的目标是促进开放和敏感地使用现有档案，以创建新的档案，并阐明尊重多元和不同叙述的平等主义档案做法的方法。这将通过在黎巴嫩、加纳和坦桑尼亚不同社会政治和时间背景下的4个调查实验室以及在这些实验室之外的重要活动，如委员会来实现。通过与现有档案馆、现场特殊和非传统档案馆、创造性开放数字化工具、与不同公众的开放工作室活动的合作，我们的目标是与理事机构和超国家组织（如国际文化财产保护与修复研究中心）对话，共同制定一份政策宣言。我们更广泛的目标是，通过将文化习俗作为重要的谈判场所，倡导文化被正式承认为一种人道主义需求。