Vulnerability: A Research Method for Literary and Cultural Studies

脆弱性：文学与文化研究的一种研究方法

• 批准号: AH/W000318/1
• 负责人: Zalfa Feghali
• 金额: $ 24.53万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW000318%2F1
• 关键词: Vulnerability; Research; Method; Literary; Cultural

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.

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，提供了一种使用脆弱性概念作为文学和文化研究阅读方法的方法。该项目的重点是失踪和被谋杀的黑人和土著人民，以及在美国边境对妇女和儿童的待遇，这是北美两个正在发生的相互关联的跨界脆弱性危机，但没有得到持续的重要关注。该项目确定并绘制了一个新兴的文化反应机构，明确参与这些相互关联的脆弱性危机。在开发一种“阅读的能力”，该项目将最终在一个主要的学术专著的研究员，借鉴了广泛的档案研究在美国，英国和墨西哥。这本专著将采取跨国界的方法来分析美国的重要性-墨西哥和加拿大-美国边境与看似“国家”的危机有关-无人陪伴和失散的儿童前往美国（第1部分）;失踪和被谋杀的黑人和土著人民（第2部分）;以及美国的杀戮女性-墨西哥边境（第三部分）-通过研究小说、诗歌、电影和行为艺术在过去三十年中如何应对这些危机。该项目的相关发展活动将把这项研究部署到三个受益群体：1.从事任何脆弱领域工作的学者; 2.在北美从事基于性别和种族的脆弱性工作的非政府组织; 3.公众，特别是中学教师。1.学术界：该研究员将创建和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举行虚拟会议，汇集来自不同研究领域的学者，研究人员和从业人员，包括不同的国家背景，就如何在不同学科中调动脆弱性概念进行合作讨论。该网络将举办三次活动：一次是关于本项目审查的两种脆弱性危机，另一次是关于由该网络决定的一个主题。脆弱性研究网络的成员将合作提议和出版一本编辑集《脆弱性研究中的关键词》，该研究员将担任该集的编辑。2。非政府组织：发展活动将看到研究员通过为美国，加拿大和墨西哥的非政府组织创建免费在线政策工具包来发展政策参与技能，重点关注两个跨境脆弱性并提出政策选择和战略。这些材料也将译成西班牙文。教师和公众：为了使公众从该项目中受益，研究员将为中学教师制作一个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“黑人生活问题文学”主题的免费在线模块（MOOC），这是英国第一个关于这个主题的MOOC。