Other Everests: Commemoration, Memory and Meaning and the British Everest Expedition Centenaries, 2021-2024

其他珠穆朗玛峰：纪念、记忆和意义以及英国珠穆朗玛峰探险百年纪念，2021-2024

• 批准号: AH/W004917/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Westaway
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of Central Lancashire
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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%2FW004917%2F1
• 关键词: Other; Everests; Commemoration; Memory; Meaning

Other Everests is a new interdisciplinary research network that takes as its starting point the centenary of the post-war British Everest campaigns of 1921-1924. It will bring together international scholars, archivists, curators, learned and professional societies and the UK mountaineering community to critically reassess the legacy of the Everest expeditions and to re-evaluate the symbolic, political and cultural status of Everest in the contemporary world. Everest became the object of British mountaineering attention after the First World War for a number of reasons. Himalayan mountaineering presented the opportunity to reconstruct a form of heroic masculinity. To 'conquer' Everest would demonstrate British racial vigour and imperial fitness to rule in India. The mass media were avid for stories of heroism and adventure. The mythopoeic disappearance of Mallory and Irvine in 1924 reinforced dominant narratives of ill-fated adventure and the nobility of sacrifice. Enduring archetypes were created that continue to shape the popular understanding of Everest to the present day.The Other Everests network will bring post-colonial perspectives to bear on Everest mountaineering narratives, challenging us to broaden and deepen our understanding of Everest's mountaineering history, its symbolic legacy and contemporary meanings, shifting the focus away from colonial-era narratives, providing access to the hidden histories of Everest. It brings historical perspectives to bear on the multiple contemporary ethical, social and political challenges thrown up by Everest, bringing together historians, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and literature scholars to examine subjects as diverse as: the legacy of British imperialism, the hidden histories of exploration, labour hierarchies and welfare; 'overtourism' and the environmental and social impacts of adventure tourism, the disposal of human remains on the mountain, and the globalisation of mountaineering.The Other Everests network will develop a network of academics and the custodians of significant archival collections relating to Everest, such as our project partner, the Royal Geographical Society, enabling contemporary scholarship to contribute to the discussion around appropriate forms of commemoration of the post-war Everest expeditions. The network will reflect on the commemorative activities that have already taken place in 2021 for the centenary of the much smaller Everest Reconnaissance Expedition of 1921, as well as taking part in the debates around the much more significant forthcoming centenaries of the British attempts to climb Everest that will be in 2022 and 2024. The network will ask fundamental questions about commemoration, memory and meaning and the role of contemporary archives in understanding Everest today: questions such as 'Whose history are we commemorating?'; 'How do we incorporate Nepalese and Tibetan perspectives in our interpretation of mountaineering on Everest?'; 'What are the sources for the history of indigenous high-altitude labour?'; 'How does history continue to shape contemporary globalised mountaineering cultures on Everest?'; 'How can digitisation facilitate co-production and digital repatriation?'; 'What are the challenges of engaging different communities and publics as co-producers of knowledge, enabling them to be part of the process of reinterpreting the legacy of mountaineering on Everest?'. Other Everests will take a once-in-a-100-year opportunity to critically reassess the legacy of Everest and its meaning in contemporary culture and society. It will make its findings widely accessible in an Open-Access collection of critical essays that address key themes highlighted by the network and it will work with our project partners at the Kendal Mountain Festival to develop public lectures and events that translate contemporary scholarship into publicly accessible formats.

Other Everests是一个新的跨学科研究网络，以1921-1924年战后英国珠峰运动一百周年为起点。它将汇集国际学者，档案管理员，策展人，学术和专业团体以及英国登山界，以批判性地重新评估珠峰探险的遗产，并重新评估珠峰在当代世界的象征，政治和文化地位。珠峰在第一次世界大战后成为英国登山运动关注的对象，原因有很多。喜马拉雅山登山运动提供了一个重建英雄气概的机会。“征服”珠峰将证明英国的种族活力和帝国在印度的统治能力。大众媒体热衷于英雄主义和冒险故事。1924年，马洛里和欧文的神话般消失，强化了对命运多舛的冒险和牺牲的崇高的主流叙述。这些不朽的原型被创造出来，并继续塑造着人们对珠峰的普遍理解，直到今天。“其他珠峰”网络将把后殖民视角引入珠峰登山叙事，挑战我们扩大和加深对珠峰登山历史、其象征性遗产和当代意义的理解，将焦点从殖民时代的叙事转移开来，提供对珠峰隐藏历史的访问。它带来了历史的角度来承担多个当代伦理，社会和政治的挑战抛出了珠峰，汇集历史学家，地理学家，人类学家，社会学家，心理学家和文学学者研究的主题一样多样：英帝国主义的遗产，隐藏的历史探索，劳工阶层和福利;“过度旅游”以及探险旅游对环境和社会的影响、山上人类遗骸的处理以及登山运动的全球化。其他珠穆朗玛峰网络将建立一个由学者和与珠穆朗玛峰相关的重要档案收藏保管人组成的网络。珠峰，例如我们的项目合作伙伴，皇家地理学会，使当代学术界能够为围绕战后珠峰探险纪念活动的适当形式的讨论做出贡献。该网络将反思2021年已经为1921年规模小得多的珠峰侦察探险一百周年举行的纪念活动，并参与围绕2022年和2024年英国试图攀登珠峰的更重要的即将到来的百年纪念的辩论。该网络将提出关于纪念、记忆和意义的基本问题，以及当代档案在理解当今珠峰方面的作用：诸如“我们纪念谁的历史？我们如何将尼泊尔和西藏的观点纳入我们对珠峰登山的解释中？“;”土著高原劳动历史的来源是什么？历史如何继续塑造当代全球化的珠峰登山文化？数字化如何促进联合制作和数字回归？';“让不同的社区和公众参与进来，共同创造知识，使他们能够参与重新解释珠峰登山遗产的过程，这有什么挑战？'.其他的珠穆朗玛峰将利用百年一遇的机会，批判性地重新评估珠峰的遗产及其在当代文化和社会中的意义。它将使其调查结果广泛访问的开放获取收集的关键论文，解决网络突出的关键主题，它将与我们的项目合作伙伴在肯达尔山节开发公共讲座和活动，将当代学术转化为公众可访问的格式。