BORDER CROSSINGS: Exploring history and community through virtual reality at the 75th anniversary of the Partition

跨境项目旨在以过去由人权委员会资助的项目为基础，以提供与独立和分治75周年相关的影响和参与活动。最初的大型项目“性别、种姓和宗教身份的做法”（项目编号：AH/F009143/1，PI：Navtej Purewal）于2010年完成，由宗教和社会方案供资。虽然该项目产生了一些学术和创造性成果，但其影响和参与活动主要集中在南亚。该提案旨在将原始项目的发现和贡献扩展到英国的受众，特别是南亚侨民。通过对当代旁遮普宗教实践的研究，2010年的项目强调了将历史上嵌入的宗教差异逻辑复杂化的必要性。这种逻辑在很大程度上基于1947年分治的记忆和公共叙事，并发展了新的方法来理解宗教和民族身份的僵化思想和类别不断被主张和重建的机制。目前的项目利用这些见解和方法来研究1947年分裂的记忆和公共叙事是如何随着时间的推移在英国侨民中发展和变化的。这个后续项目还将探索如何利用虚拟现实（VR）技术的新发展来进一步深入了解2010年项目的主张，即跨越身份的边界思想可以使批判性的重新认识成为可能。对过去的检查。与Project Dastaan的合作使研究团队能够探索如何使用沉浸式VR体验来传播2010年项目的关键方法论成果，同时也有助于扩展和扩大分区的方式，作为英国南亚侨民社区文化遗产的重要主题，被纪念，记住和纪念。该项目有四个主要目标：1。反思并鼓励对话，讨论在独立75周年之前的几十年里，南亚和英国纪念、纪念和纪念分治的方式发生了变化，并更好地理解将这两个地点/空间的纪念活动联系起来的流程和过程。与利益相关者社区合作，分享关于南亚英国侨民和更广泛的英国社会中不同社区和世代对分割的理解的知识。探索如何使用VR和视觉媒体来促进新的跨代和跨社区的关于分区，独立及其遗产的对话。制作学习资源，可以使更多的关键和包容性的教学约1947年及其在南亚和英国的遗产。

The Border Crossings project aims to build on from a past AHRC-funded project in order to deliver impact and engagement activities associated with the 75th anniversary of independence and the partition. The original large project "Gender, Caste and the Practices of Religious Identities (Project reference: AH/F009143/1, PI: Navtej Purewal) completed in 2010, was funded under the Religion and Society programme. While there were a number of academic and creative outputs from that project, the impacts and engagement activities were mainly focused in South Asia. This proposal aims to extend the findings and contributions of the original project to audiences in the UK, particularly the South Asian diaspora. Through a study of religious practices in contemporary Punjab, the 2010 project emphasised the need to complicate historically embedded logics of religious difference. Such logics are heavily grounded in memories and public narratives of the partition of 1947 and developed new approaches for understanding the mechanisms through which rigid ideas and categories of religious, and national, identity are constantly being asserted and reconstructed. The current project draws on these insights and methodologies to examine how memories and public narratives of the partition of 1947 have developed and changed over time amongst the UK diaspora.This follow-on project will also explore how new developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology can be used to contribute further insight to the 2010 project's claim that thinking across bordered ideas of identity can enable critical re-examinations of the past. The partnership with Project Dastaan enables the research team to explore how immersive VR experience can be used to disseminate the critical methodological findings of the 2010 project while also helping to extend and expand the ways in which the partition, as a significant theme of cultural heritage for South Asian diaspora communities in the UK, is commemorated, remembered and memorialised. The project has four key objectives:1. To reflect on and encourage dialogue about changes in the ways in which partition has been commemorated, remembered and memorialised in both South Asia and the UK in the decades before the 75th anniversary of independence and to better understand the flows and processes that connect memorialising across these two locations/spaces.2. To work with stakeholder communities to share knowledge of how understandings of partition vary across communities and generations in the South Asian UK diaspora, and wider British society.3. To explore how VR and visual media can be used to facilitate new cross-generational and cross-community conversations about partition, independence and their legacy.4. To produce learning resources that can enable more critical and inclusive teaching about 1947 and its legacies in South Asia and the UK.