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.

其他珠峰是一个新的跨学科研究网络，它以1921-1924年英国珠峰战役的百年纪念为起点。它将汇集国际学者、档案工作者、策展人、学术和专业协会以及英国登山界，以批判性的方式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。珠穆朗玛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。喜马拉雅登山运动提供了重建一种英雄气概的机会。“征服”珠穆朗玛峰将展示英国的种族活力和帝国统治印度的适宜性。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的消失强化了关于不幸的冒险和牺牲的高尚的主流叙事。其他珠峰网络将把后殖民时代的视角引入珠峰登山叙事，挑战我们拓宽和加深对珠峰登山历史、其象征遗产和当代意义的理解，将重点从殖民时代的叙事转移到珠峰隐藏的历史。它将历史视角引入珠穆朗玛峰引发的多重当代伦理、社会和政治挑战，聚集了历史学家、地理学家、人类学家、社会学家、心理学家和文学学者，研究各种各样的主题：大英帝国的遗产、探索的隐藏历史、劳动等级制度和福利；另一个珠峰网络将发展一个学术网络，以及与珠峰有关的重要档案收藏品的保管人网络，例如我们的项目合作伙伴皇家地理学会，使当代学术能够促进关于战后珠峰探险适当形式的纪念的讨论。该网络将反思已经在2021年为规模小得多的1921年珠峰侦察探险100周年而举行的纪念活动，以及参加围绕2022年和2024年英国攀登珠峰的更重要的百年纪念的辩论。该网络将就纪念、记忆和意义以及当代档案馆在理解当今珠峰方面的作用等基本问题提出质疑，例如：“我们纪念的是谁的历史？”；“我们如何将尼泊尔和西藏的视角纳入我们对珠峰登山的解读？”；“本土高海拔劳动力的历史来源是什么？”；“历史如何继续塑造珠峰上当代全球化的登山文化？”；“数字化如何促进联合制作和数字遣返？”“让不同的社区和公众成为知识的共同创造者，让他们成为重新诠释珠峰登山遗产的过程的一部分，这些挑战是什么？”其他珠峰将抓住一个百年一遇的机会，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。它将在一本涉及网络突出的关键主题的开放获取的评论论文集中广泛获取其研究结果，并将与我们在肯达尔山区节上的项目合作伙伴合作，开发将当代学术转化为可公开获取的格式的公开讲座和活动。