Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Engagement Fellowships Pilot

平等、多元化和包容性参与奖学金试点

• 批准号: AH/V001825/1
• 负责人: Anna-Maria Susheila Misra
• 金额: $ 14.39万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 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%2FV001825%2F1
• 关键词: Equality; Diversity; Inclusion; Engagement; Fellowships

I would hope to use the Public Engagement Fellowship to put some of the ideas in my forthcoming book, Sexism: A Global History, before a broader audience, and stimulate informed discussions and debates on some of their implications. Sexism: A Global History is a 'big history' of the topic, tracing religion, science, political and economic ideas, which both looks back to pre-history and forwards to, hopefully, a sexism-free future. It argues that sexism - treating people differently according to biology - is neither the natural order of things, nor as 'whiggish' commentators assert, largely a problem of the past, now yielding to a more progressive present. Rather sexism is part of a cluster of historically flexible but always discriminatory ideas, closely related to broader views of gender and sexuality, as well as other hierarchies of class, caste and race, and possessing an extraordinary capacity for adaptation and reinvention. The book will trace these varieties of sexism through space and time, explaining why it has taken far more powerful forms in some places and periods than others, thus, I hope, helping us to think about how it might be challenged today. The book will be published by the trade arm of Bloomsbury, who have identified it as one of their top non-fiction publication of 2020/2021. Publication will be accompanied by a major international promotional tour in Britain, the US and the Commonwealth. I would hope to use the Fellowship to engage four different audiences - media, business, government and the cultural and arts world - with four targeted conferences, bringing together academics and intellectuals in particular sectors for lectures, and panel discussions on how humanities research into sexism can help us understand and challenge sexism in all its contemporary forms. The aim is to improve understanding of sexism and the quality of debate in the media; to show how humanities research in history, philosophy, cultural studies and law can offer different and innovative perspectives on the persistence of gender gaps in employment, political participation, economic and cultural leadership; and to generate a deeper appreciation of the contextual role of culture and history in shaping sexist attitudes and practices in the global South among corporate and political policy-makers and media opinion-formers. The project is also intended to foster on-going dialogue, debate and knowledge exchange, either formally or informally between academics and policy makers in all four fields, with the hope of promoting a more informed environment for research and discussion of sexism and gender discrimination, and ultimately for more innovative policy initiatives promoting diversity, equality, cohesion and positive societal change. The four conferences will be planned in partnership with leading figures from each sphere who will help develop the necessary institutional links and networks. Each conference will be held at a high-profile venue with an invited as well as elective audience. I hope to attract a significant degree of press and media attention with the inclusion of a few well-known figures from academia and, as appropriate, the worlds of business, politics, the arts, popular culture and sport. The conferences will involve both keynote addresses, mixed panel discussions and audience debate on the themes outlined on the accompanying document. In the panels we will draw on the depth and richness of expertise in British universities, along with some high-profile international invitees.

我希望利用公众参与奖学金，把我即将出版的书中的一些想法，性别歧视：全球历史，在更广泛的观众面前，并激发对它们的一些影响的知情讨论和辩论。性别歧视：《全球史》是一部关于这一主题的“大历史”，追溯宗教、科学、政治和经济思想，既回顾了史前史，又展望了一个没有灾难的未来。它认为，性别歧视--根据生物学原理对人进行不同的对待--既不是事物的自然规律，也不像“辉格党”评论家所断言的那样，在很大程度上是过去的问题，现在正让位于一个更进步的现在。相反，性别歧视是历史上灵活但始终具有歧视性的一系列观念的一部分，与更广泛的性别和性观念以及阶级、种姓和种族的其他等级制度密切相关，具有非凡的适应和再造能力。本书将通过时空追溯这些性别歧视的种类，解释为什么它在某些地方和时期比其他地方和时期采取了更强大的形式，因此，我希望，帮助我们思考今天如何挑战它。这本书将由Bloomsbury的贸易部门出版，Bloomsbury已将其确定为2020/2021年度最佳非小说类出版物之一。出版的同时，还将在英国、美国和英联邦进行一次重大的国际宣传旅行。我希望利用奖学金吸引四个不同的受众-媒体，企业，政府和文化艺术界-四个有针对性的会议，汇集学者和知识分子在特定部门的讲座，小组讨论如何对性别歧视进行人文研究可以帮助我们理解和挑战所有当代形式的性别歧视。其目的是提高对性别歧视的理解和媒体辩论的质量;展示历史、哲学、文化研究和法律方面的人文研究如何能够就就业、政治参与、经济和文化领导方面持续存在的性别差距提供不同的创新视角;并使人们更深刻地认识到文化和历史在全球南方的公司和政治政策中塑造性别歧视态度和做法的背景作用，制造者和媒体舆论制造者。该项目还旨在促进所有四个领域的学术界和决策者之间正在进行的正式或非正式对话、辩论和知识交流，希望为研究和讨论性别歧视和性别歧视问题创造一个更加知情的环境，并最终推动更多创新的政策举措，促进多样性、平等、凝聚力和积极的社会变革。这四次会议将与各个领域的领导人合作规划，他们将帮助发展必要的机构联系和网络。每场会议都将在备受瞩目的场地举行，邀请观众和选择观众。我希望通过邀请一些来自学术界的知名人士，并酌情邀请商业、政治、艺术、流行文化和体育界的知名人士参加，吸引新闻界和媒体的高度关注。会议将包括主旨发言、混合小组讨论和听众辩论，讨论所附文件概述的主题。在小组讨论中，我们将利用英国大学的深度和丰富的专业知识，沿着一些知名的国际受邀者。