Vulnerability: A Research Method for Literary and Cultural Studies

这个独特的跨学科项目开发了一种新的阅读方式，可以应用于文学和文化研究。该项目完善了脆弱性理论，这是科学和社会科学的一个多学科研究领域，提供了一种在文学和文化研究中使用脆弱性概念作为阅读方法的方法。该项目的重点是失踪和被谋杀的黑人和土著人民，以及美国边境妇女和儿童的待遇，这是北美两项持续存在且相互关联的跨境脆弱性危机，但没有得到持续的认真关注。该项目确定并绘制了一个新兴的文化反应体，这些文化反应体明确地涉及这些相互关联的脆弱性危机。在开发一种“阅读脆弱性”的方式的过程中，该项目将在研究员的主要学术专著中达到高潮，该专著借鉴了美国，英国和墨西哥的广泛档案研究。该专著将采取跨国界的方法来分析美国-墨西哥和加拿大-美国的重要性。与看似“国家”危机有关的边界——前往美国的无人陪伴和失散儿童（第1部分）；失踪和被谋杀的黑人和土著人（第二部分）；以及美墨边境的女性杀戮（第三部分）——通过研究小说、诗歌、电影和表演艺术在过去三十年中是如何应对这些危机的。该项目的相关发展活动将把这项研究部署给三组受益者：研究任何脆弱性领域的学者；2. 致力于北美性别和种族脆弱性问题的非政府组织；3. 公众，尤其是中学教师。1. 学者：研究员将创建并领导一个多学科和跨学科的脆弱性研究网络，该网络将在项目的第二年进行虚拟会议，汇集来自不同研究领域的学者、研究人员和实践者，包括不同的国家背景，就脆弱性概念在不同学科中动员的方式进行协作讨论。该网络将举行三次活动：一次是关于本项目审查的两种脆弱性危机，另一次是关于将由该网络决定的主题。脆弱性研究网络的成员将合作提议和出版一本编辑集《脆弱性研究关键词》，该研究员将担任编辑。非政府组织：在发展活动中，研究员将通过为美国、加拿大和墨西哥的非政府组织创建一个免费的在线政策工具包，培养政策参与的技能，重点关注这两个跨境脆弱性，并提出政策选择和战略。这份材料也将翻译成西班牙文。教师和公众：为了让公众从项目中受益，研究员将为中学教师制作一份关于土著文学和黑人文学的可下载教学资源，以及一个关于“黑人的生命也是文学”主题的免费短在线模块（MOOC），这是英国首个关于这一主题的MOOC。

This unique interdisciplinary project develops a new way of reading that can be applied to literary and cultural studies. The project refines vulnerability theory, a multidisciplinary field of study in the sciences and social sciences, to offer a way of using the concept of vulnerability as a reading method in literary and cultural studies. The project focuses on missing and murdered Black and Indigenous People, and the treatment of women and children at American borders, two ongoing and linked cross-border crises of vulnerability in North America that have not been examined together with sustained critical attention. The project identifies and maps an emerging body of cultural responses that explicitly engage with these interconnected crises of vulnerability.In developing a way of 'reading for vulnerability', the project will culminate in a major scholarly monograph by the Fellow that draws on extensive archival research in the US, UK, and Mexico. The monograph will take a cross-border approach to analysing the significance of the U.S.-Mexico and Canada-U.S. borders in relation to seemingly 'national' crises - unaccompanied and separated children travelling to the United States (Part 1); Missing and Murdered Black and Indigenous People (Part 2); and femicide at the U.S.-Mexico border (Part 3) - by studying how fiction, poetry, film, and performance art have responded to these crises in the last three decades.The project's associated development activities will deploy this research to three groups of beneficiaries: 1. academics working on any area of vulnerability; 2. NGOs working on gender and race-based vulnerability in North America; 3. the public, in particular secondary school teachers. 1. Academics: The Fellow will create and lead a multi- and interdisciplinary Vulnerability Studies Network, which will meet virtually during Year 2 of the project, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from different fields of study and including different national contexts to stage collaborative discussions about the ways in which the concept of vulnerability is mobilised in different disciplines. The Network will hold three events: one each on the two crises of vulnerability examined in this project, and one on a topic to be decided by the Network. Members of the Vulnerability Studies Network will collaborate in the proposal and publication of an edited collection, Keywords in Vulnerability Studies, of which the Fellow will be an editor.2. NGOs: The development activities will see the Fellow develop skills in policy engagement through the creation of a freely available online policy toolkit for NGOs in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, focusing on the two cross-border vulnerabilities and proposing policy options and strategies. This material will also be translated into Spanish.3. Teachers, and the Public: In order that the public benefits from the project, the Fellow will produce a downloadable teaching resources on Indigenous literature and Black literature for secondary school teachers, as well as a free short online module (MOOC) on the topic of "Black Lives Matter Literature", the first MOOC on this topic in the UK.