Transforming trans-national landscapes of gender-based violence through trans-sensory storying

这项提议是在“Covid 19大流行中基于性别的暴力的不可动摇”项目的基础上提出的，通过传播其调查结果，并为新的和国际受众创造机会进行审议，从而产生影响和参与。最初的项目表明，GBV发生在一个“连续的移动空间”中，在这个空间中，女性以不同的方式被固定/动员。这一点突出表现在19型肺炎大流行期间，由于行动受限，空间被隔离和加强。我们表明，讲述故事揭示了有关GBV的新知识，这些知识具有超越大流行的相关性。我们发现，Covid 19大流行和封锁的流动性为毕生反思GBV创造了空间。故事传达了GBV的“感觉”体验，将读者吸引到GBV表面上的“平凡”和“更严肃”的方面。然而，政策和公众参与往往主要是通过对犯罪统计数据的量化分析来了解的，这些统计数据在真实反映基于性别的暴力的感受/生活经历方面存在根本缺陷。迫切需要承认公众以及政策制定者和从业者(例如警察和运输提供者)对基于性别的暴力的定性描述在寻求改变基于性别的暴力的面貌方面的价值。这包括常常不属于公共领域的账户--在这些社区中，基于性别的暴力可能更为常见。同时，关于基于性别的暴力的讨论往往在国内而不是跨越国界进行，尽管基于性别的暴力是世界各地妇女和女孩(主要是)妇女和女孩(包括跨性别妇女和女孩)共同的全球问题。因此，该项目将跨越国界，分享各大洲的故事，并建立新的国际伙伴关系。我们寻求在英国和墨西哥吸引新的受众，这两个国家都面临着高水平的GBV，并通过政策干预和高度可见的竞选活动共同挑战GBV。跨国讨论，加上多感官故事，可以释放促进GBV的无处不在的文化条件。通过采取跨国方法，我们可以开始改变GBV的面貌，挑战植根于厌女症的文化。我们通过关注跨感官故事来做到这一点，我们在这里提出了一个新的概念，作为框架GBV故事的一个新概念，并作为一种新的参与方法，提供了一条影响的途径。GBV的跨感官故事将被翻译成不同的和相互关联的感官输出，并用来引发对话。我们邀请英国和墨西哥的艺术家和创意作家将GBV的故事转化为原创作品-声音艺术、漫画故事、短篇小说、诗歌、立体图-在布莱顿和墨西哥城举行的互动展览。我们将吸引新的受众--有目的地把重点放在通常可能脱离这一话题的群体--包括普通公众成员，但也包括学者、社区团体、政策制定者和从业者，他们的主要兴趣不是跨感官故事，并邀请他们参加圆桌会议-促进具有明确目的和预期结果的讨论小组。该项目的跨感官成果将被汇集在一个经过编辑的集合中，通过避免使用复杂的学术语言和使用插图向公众提供。展览将作为实物和数字资源提供给未来的展示。

This proposal follows on from the project 'The Immobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid 19 pandemic' in generating impact and engagement by communicating and its findings and creating opportunities to deliberate them for new and international audiences. The original project demonstrated that GBV occurs in a 'continuum of mobile space' in which women are im/mobilised in different ways. This was highlighted by the isolations and intensifications of spaces as a result of constrained movement during the Covid 19 pandemic. We showed that storying reveals new knowledge of GBV that has relevance beyond the pandemic. We found that the im/mobilities of the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdowns created spaces for reflection on GBV throughout lifetimes. Stories that conveyed the 'felt' experience of GBV engaged readers in the apparently 'mundane' as well as 'more serious' aspects of GBV. Nevertheless, policy and public engagement tends to be informed primarily by the quantitative analysis of crime statistics, which are fundamentally flawed in representing a genuine picture of the felt/lived experiences of GBV. There is an urgent need to acknowledge the value of qualitative accounts of GBV - both by the general public and policymakers and practitioners (e.g. police and transport providers) in seeking to transform the landscape of GBV. This includes accounts that are often absent from the public domain - of minoritised communities within which GBV may be more commonplace.In tandem, discussions of GBV often take place within, rather than across, national borders, despite GBV being a global issue shared (predominantly) by women and girls (including trans women and girls) across the world. Thus, the project will span national borders, sharing stories across continents and building new international partnerships. We seek to engage new audiences in both the UK and Mexico, a country that has both faced high levels of GBV and where GBV is collectively challenged through policy interventions and highly visible campaigning. Trans-national deliberations, supported with engaging multi-sensory storying, can unlock the pervading cultural conditions that facilitate GBV. By adopting a trans-national approach we can begin transform the landscapes of GBV, challenging cultures rooted in misogyny. We do so by focusing on trans-sensory storying, which we propose here as a new concept in framing GBV storying and as a new and method of engagement that provides a pathway to impact. The trans-sensory stories of GBV will be translated into diverse and connected sensory outputs and used to elicit dialogue. We invite artists and creative writers in the UK and Mexico to translate stories of GBV into original creative outputs - sound art, comic stories, short stories, poems, dioramas - for interactive exhibitions in Brighton and Mexico City. We will engage new audiences - purposefully focusing on groups who might normally disengage from this topic - including members of the general public, but also academics, community groups, policymakers and practitioners whose primary interest is not GBV, with the trans-sensory stories and invite them to take part in Roundtables - facilitated discussion groups with a clear purpose and intended outcomes. The trans-sensory outputs of the project will be brought together in an edited collection, which will be made accessible to the general public by avoiding complex academic language and using illustrations. The exhibition will be made available as a physical and digital resource for future display.