A story of her own: finding a space for women to speak beyond the criminal justice system; AH/W003805/1

这个拟议的研究网络将激发在刑事司法系统中使用艺术的新辩论，并支持合作交流思想，为妇女讲述的个人故事开发新的理论和方法方法。该项目将汇集艺术从业者、刑事司法经验丰富的女性和学术研究人员之间的新网络，探索讲故事作为个人赋权和社会转型来源的潜力。以故事的变革力量为重点，我们将举办一系列研讨会，将艺术家、从业者、CJE妇女、研究人员和利益相关者聚集在一起，更好地理解叙事话语对性别和监禁的形成性影响。通过分享经验和以同情为主导的实践，每个工作坊都将重点关注讲故事实践的具体方面，以描绘语言与权力在量刑、监禁和释放的各个阶段之间的关系。首先，我们将重点关注女性用来在世界上定位自己的故事，我们将询问女性被要求表达自我的语言，以及这些语言如何以及以何种方式嵌入到先前存在的羞耻、恢复、恢复和责任的叙述中。关注女性被赋予而不是被选择的归属和排斥的方式，我们将研究叙事技巧、期望和话语如何支配女性获得成功的空间。我们将分为五个会议，每个会议都有一个独特的重点，并以小组为主导，汇集戏剧，音乐，创意写作，犯罪学，政策制定，教育改革，妇女权利和生活经验方面的多学科和跨学科专业知识，探讨我们如何给予妇女一个空间，让她们说出自己：从制度身份和性别期望的话语中解放出来，并通过属于她们的术语来表达自己。工作坊将按以下形式进行：1)狱中女性故事我们将合作找出狱中女性的典型故事。我们将探索我们如何在生活经验和艺术中接受和居住这些故事。我们考虑这样的叙述是有用的还是限制性的，是授权的还是压迫的。本次工作坊将向参与者介绍叙事结构理论、表现的性别过程以及书面和口头语言的表现。2)揭露监禁聚焦于“揭露叙事”，本课程将解开“揭露”的术语，通过这些术语，女性被迫在监狱内和监狱后采用一种特定的揭露话语。我们考虑披露的条款是如何嵌入耻辱和诋毁的系统结构的，这不仅阻止了妇女摆脱她们的犯罪经历，而且强加了不属于她们自己的身份。3)沉默聆听关于沉默的批判性经验，本课程探讨女性居住和体验的沉默之声。我们将探索沉默意味着什么，因为它表现为压迫、虐待、庇护、真相、抵抗、拒绝和代理。4)激励故事？作为一个女人，讲述你的故事意味着什么？作为一个经历过刑事司法系统的女人呢？这节课的重点是自传和生活写作在性别话语的关怀，母性和性。5)讲述我们的故事借鉴之前的工作坊，最后一个环节的重点是制作个人表演作品，让所有参与者都可以表达、探索和重新讲述他们的故事。使用音乐，创意写作，艺术，声音和运动来记录一个新的和不同的叙事过程，在这个过程中，参与其中的女性找到了一个赋予她们权威和作者身份的故事。

This proposed research network will stimulate new debate across the use of the arts in the criminal justice system and support collaboration for the exchange of ideas to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches to the individual stories that women tell. This project will bring together new networks between arts-based practitioners, criminal justice experienced (CJE) women, and academic researchers to explore the potential of storytelling as a source of personal empowerment and social transformation. Focusing on the transformative power of story we will run a series of workshops to bring together artists, practitioners, CJE women, researchers and stakeholders to better understand the formative effects of narrative discourse on both gender and incarceration. With a unique emphasis on collaboration through shared experience and compassion led practice, each workshop will focus on specific aspects of storytelling practice to map the relationship between language and power at the various stages of sentencing, prison and release.Beginning with a critical focus on the stories women use to position themselves within the world, we will interrogate the language through which women are asked to represent their selves and how and in what ways this has become embedded in pre-existing narratives of shame, restitution, recovery and responsibility. Attending to the ways in which women have been given, rather than chosen, the terms of belonging and exclusion, we will examine how narrative techniques, expectations and discourses govern the spaces of success available to women. Divided into five sessions, each with a unique focus, and group led dynamic, we will bring together multi and cross-discipline expertise in theatre, music, creative writing, criminology, policy making, educational reform, women's rights, and lived experience to explore how we give women a space to speak as they are: free from the discourses of institutional identities and gendered expectations, and to represent themselves through terms that belong to them. The workshops will run under the following format:1) Stories about women in prisonWe will collaboratively identify typical stories about women in prison. We will explore how we receive, and inhabit these stories in lived experience and in art. We consider how such narratives may be useful or restrictive, empowering or oppressive. This workshop will introduce participants to theories of narrative structure, gendered processes of representation and the performance of the written and spoken words.2) Disclosing incarcerationFocusing on 'disclosure narratives', this session will unpack the terms of 'disclosure' through which women are forced to adopt a specific discourse of revelation within and after prison. We consider how the terms of disclosure are embedded in systematic structures of shame and denigration that not only prevent women from moving away from their experiences of criminality but impose identities that are not their own. 3) SilenceListening to critical experiences of silence, this session explores the sounds of silence as they are inhabited and experienced by women. We will explore what silence means as it manifests as oppression, abuse, refuge, truth, resistance, refusal and agency.4) Empowering stories?What does it mean to tell your story, as a woman? and as a woman who has been through the criminal justice system? This session focuses on autobiography and life writing within the gendered discourses of care, motherhood and sexuality.5) Telling our stories Drawing on our previous workshops, the final session focusses on producing individual performance pieces in which all participants can express, explore and reclaim their stories. Using music, creative writing, art, sound and movement to chronicle a new and different narrative process in which the women involved find a story which gives them authority as well as authorship.