Towards a Sociosomatic History of Northern Ireland's Troubles

这个网络的目的是询问我们如何讲述冲突与建设和平的不同故事。它将考察感官历史的潜力——以及我们的身体如何在世界上存在的意识——以解开北爱尔兰问题的另一种叙述。利用视觉、听觉、嗅觉、味觉和触觉，该网络将询问我们如何发现人们在深层、通常是无意识的层面上体验社会结构和人际互动的方式。该网络提议将学者、政策制定者和艺术实践者聚集在一起，探索在冲突期间和冲突后提取、表达和表现生活记忆的方法。动乱开始于五十多年前，这是爱尔兰历史上一个重要的记忆时刻。五十周年纪念使人们意识到，活着的记忆开始褪色（甚至明显消失），并正在转变为一种文化或社会形式的纪念。这有时可能意味着，叙事围绕着确认二元政治身份的党派版本而停滞不前，而忽略了个人的、具体化的经历。宗教和政治派别并不是影响动乱期间人们生活的唯一因素：阶级、性别、性取向、种族、年龄、（残疾）能力和地理因素也影响着人们的生活。该网络旨在开发一种方法论方法，以一种更好地理解人们生活的更广泛的社会的方式，绘制出个人经历的复杂性。该网络建议将来自艺术和人文、自然科学和社会科学的学者聚集在一起，开发一种理解“麻烦”的社会学方法。这意味着将内部生活和外部结构的研究结合起来，以了解社会动态对个人的影响。它将利用从神经科学、心理学、哲学到历史、地理和电影研究等学科的专业知识，为这一学科创造一个持久的理论方法。来自戏剧、音乐、舞蹈和摄影的学者将分享多感官研究的知识。该网络还将与艺术从业者紧密合作，创造一个动态的记忆收集和呈现空间。每个网络活动都旨在激发讨论，鼓励反思，并在学者和艺术从业者之间建立有意义的合作。上午的课程将包括一个以艺术为基础的活动，作为下午对话的刺激，并探索社会躯体过去的不同表现。所有参与者的现象学经验也将被赋予意义。目的是建立一个多感官项目，包括走路、看、听、尝、听和说。预计该网络的调查结果将有利于一系列的组成部分。学术听众是跨学科的，包括对过去的具体表现的学者，以及那些在国际上研究冲突和冲突后社会的学者。该网络的一个中心目标是建立这一研究领域的能力，该计划包含一系列针对早期职业学者的大师班。此外，艺术工作者对网络的重要性将为进一步的合作提供途径。该网络的主要调查结果将送交受害者和幸存者委员会，作为其协商进程的一部分，并作为《斯托蒙特之家协定》的一部分，为口述历史档案的筹备工作作出贡献。通过其干预和创新，该网络将制定新的和创新的方式来重述和再现有争议的过去的故事。

This network has been designed to ask how we might tell a different story of conflict and peace-building. It will examine the potential of sensory history - and an awareness of how our bodies exist in the world - to unlock alternative narratives of the Northern Irish Troubles. Using sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, the network will ask how we might discover the ways people experienced societal structures and human interactions at a deep, often unconscious level. The network proposes bringing together academics, policy makers and arts practitioners to explore ways of drawing out, articulating and representing memories of life during, and emerging from, conflict.The Troubles began just over fifty years ago, marking now a significant memory moment in its history. Fiftieth anniversaries bring an awareness that living memory is beginning to fade (and indeed visibly die) and is shifting into a cultural or societal form of remembrance. This can sometimes mean that narratives congeal around partisan versions of the past that confirm binary political identities and miss the individual, embodied experience. Religion and political affiliation were not the only factors shaping people's lives during the Troubles: they were also shaped by class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability and geography. This network aims to develop a methodological approach that draws out the complexity of individual experiences in a way that also allows for a better understanding of the broader society in which people lived.The network proposes bringing together academics from the arts and humanities, natural sciences and social sciences to develop a sociosmatic methodology for understanding the Troubles. This means bringing together the study of interior lives and external structures in order to understand the impact of social dynamics on the individual. It will draw on the expertise of disciplines ranging from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy to history, geography and film studies to create a durable theoretical approach to the subject. Scholars from drama, music, dance and photography will share knowledge of multi-sensory research. The network will also work closely with arts practitioners to create a dynamic space for memory gathering and representation. Each network event will be designed to inspire discussion, encourage reflexivity and create meaningful collaborations between academics and arts practitioners. Morning sessions will include an arts-based activity which serves as stimulus for conversations in the afternoon and explores different representations of the sociosomatic past. Significance will also be given to the phenomenological experience of all participants. The aim is to construct a multi-sensory programme which includes walking, watching, hearing, tasting and listening as well as speaking. It is anticipated that the network's findings will be of benefit to a range of constituents. The academic audience is inter-disciplinary and includes scholars of embodied representations of the past as well as those who work on conflict and post-conflict societies internationally. A central aim of the network is to build capacity in this area of study and the programme contains a series of masterclasses aimed at early-career scholars. Moreover, the significance of arts practitioners to the network will provide avenues for further collaborations. The main findings of the network will be sent to the Commission for Victims and Survivors as part of its consultation process and contribute to preparations for the Oral History Archive as part of the Stormont House Agreement. Through its interventions and innovations, the network will formulate new and innovative ways to retell and re-present the stories of contested pasts.