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

边境穿越：在印巴分治 75 周年之际通过虚拟现实探索历史和社区

• 批准号: AH/X000184/1
• 负责人: Navtej Purewal
• 金额: $ 17.28万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 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%2FX000184%2F1
• 关键词: BORDER; CROSSINGS; Exploring; history; community

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.

过境点项目旨在以过去一个由人权理事会资助的项目为基础，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、种姓和宗教身份的实践”（项目编号：AH/F009143/1， PI: Navtej Purewal）于2010年完成，由宗教与社会项目资助。虽然该项目有一些学术和创造性产出，但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观众，特别是南亚侨民。通过对当代旁遮普宗教实践的研究，2010年的项目强调了将宗教差异的历史嵌入逻辑复杂化的必要性。这种逻辑在很大程度上植根于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观念和类别不断被断言和重建的机制。当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英国侨民的时间发展和变化的。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，即跨界思考身份观念可以使对过去的批判性重新审视成为可能。与Dastaan项目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发现，同时也有助于扩展和扩展分割的方式，作为英国南亚侨民社区文化遗产的重要主题，被纪念，记忆和纪念。该项目有四个主要目标：1。反思和鼓励对话，讨论在独立75周年之前的几十年里，南亚和英国对分界的纪念、记忆和纪念方式的变化，并更好地理解跨越这两个地点/空间的纪念活动的流动和过程。与利益相关者社区合作，分享南亚英国侨民和更广泛的英国社会对分区的理解如何在社区和世代之间有所不同的知识。3 .探索如何利用VR和视觉媒体促进关于分区、独立及其遗产的新的跨代和跨社区对话。制作学习资源，使1947年及其在南亚和英国的遗产的教学更具批判性和包容性。