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An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970 - 2020

1970 年至 2020 年英国环境运动的口述历史

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W005824/1
负责人：
Toby Butler
金额：
$ 103.47万
依托单位：
Royal Holloway University of London
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：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW005824%2F1
关键词：
Oral History Environmental Movement UK

项目摘要

Influencing and mobilising public opinion in order to achieve change in attitudes, policies and behaviours have long been key goals of environmental organisations in the UK. Whether through grassroots initiatives, national campaigns, popular protests or policy briefings, they have sought to harness the energies of activists and communities to address the environmental challenges of our time, from climate change and biodiversity loss to pollution, sustainable food production and transport. The experience of participating in such campaigns has led generations of activists into diverse realms of politics and policy-making, shaping lives, careers and world views. That relationship between the environmental movement in the public sphere and the personal experience of generations of activists provides the starting point for the project.The project's core objective is to create an accessible and high-quality national archive of environmental activism over the last fifty years through the methods of oral history. By so doing we seek to create a valuable resource for the future, documenting the history of environmental campaigns through the words of those most intimately involved, including those whose contributions have been overlooked. The project will draw on the strengths of oral history as a research practice, especially in long-form life stories which situate the experience of activism in its biographical and social contexts, highlighting links between family, region, class, ethnicity, gender and generation. By creating a new, freely accessible national archive, the project seeks to contribute to a greater awareness of the diverse forms of engagement with environmental issues in the past, to enrich the collective memory of contemporary environmental activism and to create a lasting resource for new thinking and new forms of action in the times to come.Working closely with the British Library Sound Archive, the project will record life story interviews with 100 people involved in environmental protests, policies and practical action since the early 1970s, from direct actions at power stations, through parliamentary work, the Climate Act and UN agreements, to the promotion of city farms, cycle ways and community-owned wind farms. Interviewees will be selected after extensive consultation and will include grassroots activists and social entrepreneurs as well as radical campaigners and pioneers of major environmental groups - forgotten voices as well as leading lights. Some of these activists worked for national and global change, while others focussed on the local level. Some fought to protect their environment from destruction, others created something quite new. All have worked for what they believed in. This is a heritage that matters. The project will be delivered by a research team combining academic expertise in the study of grassroots movements with high-level professional experience in environmental organisations. Key partners include National Life Stories at the British Library, Friends of the Earth and the Royal Geographical Society. In addition to creating an entirely new archive, freely available and searchable in both audio and transcript form via the British Library website, we will convene a series of witness seminars and workshops in collaboration with our partners in England, Wales and Scotland. A freely-downloadable, Open Access book telling the story of environmental activism through the words of campaigners themselves will be produced on the basis of the research. Teaching and learning resources based on the real-world experience of environmental activists will be made available in order to inspire and inform the active citizens of the future, at both school and university levels. We will also work with partners and media organisations such as the Guardian and the BBC to make project material widely available in a variety of forms, including podcasts, blogs, profile articles and feature stories.

长期以来，影响和动员公众舆论以改变态度、政策和行为一直是英国环境组织的主要目标。无论是通过基层倡议、全国运动、民众抗议还是政策简报，他们都试图利用活动家和社区的能量来应对我们时代的环境挑战，从气候变化和生物多样性丧失到污染、可持续粮食生产和运输。参与这些运动的经历使几代活动家进入政治和决策的不同领域，塑造生活，职业和世界观。公共领域的环保运动与几代环保活动家的个人经历之间的关系为该项目提供了出发点。该项目的核心目标是通过口述历史的方法，创建一个可访问的高质量的国家档案馆，记录过去五十年的环保活动。通过这样做，我们寻求为未来创造一个宝贵的资源，通过那些最密切参与的人，包括那些贡献被忽视的人的话来记录环境运动的历史。该项目将利用口述历史作为研究实践的优势，特别是在长篇生活故事中，这些故事在其传记和社会背景中记录了行动主义的经历，突出了家庭，地区，阶级，种族，性别和世代之间的联系。通过创建一个新的、可免费访问的国家档案，该项目力求促进人们更好地认识过去参与环境问题的各种形式，丰富当代环境活动的集体记忆，并为未来的新思维和新行动形式创造一个持久的资源。该项目将记录对100名自20世纪70年代初以来参与环境抗议、政策和实际行动的人的生活故事采访，从发电站的直接行动，通过议会工作、气候法案和联合国协议，到促进城市农场、自行车道和社区拥有的风力发电场。受访者将在广泛咨询后选出，包括基层活动家和社会企业家以及激进的活动家和主要环保团体的先驱-被遗忘的声音以及领先的灯光。其中一些活动家致力于国家和全球变革，而另一些则专注于地方一级。有些人为保护环境免受破坏而战，有些人创造了一些新的东西。他们都为自己的信仰而努力。这是一个重要的遗产。该项目将由一个研究团队提供，该团队将基层运动研究的学术专业知识与环境组织的高级专业经验相结合。主要合作伙伴包括大英图书馆的《国家生活故事》、地球之友和皇家地理学会。除了创建一个全新的档案，免费提供和搜索的音频和文字记录形式通过大英图书馆网站，我们将召开一系列证人研讨会和讲习班与我们的合作伙伴在英格兰，威尔士和苏格兰。一本可免费下载的开放获取书籍将在研究的基础上制作，该书通过活动家自己的话讲述环境活动的故事。将提供以环境活动家的实际经验为基础的教学资源，以便在学校和大学一级激励和告知未来的积极公民。我们还将与合作伙伴和媒体组织（如卫报和英国广播公司）合作，以各种形式广泛提供项目材料，包括播客，博客，简介文章和专题报道。