Cultures of participation for equitable development in Cuba and the UK.

古巴和英国的公平发展参与文化。

• 批准号: AH/X009572/1
• 负责人: Rosemary Smith
• 金额: $ 10.29万
• 依托单位: De Montfort University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX009572%2F1
• 关键词: Cultures; participation; equitable; development; Cuba

This project seeks to enable socially and epistemologically just collaboration between disabled people, academics and cultural practitioners in Cuba and the UK. We will explore how Cuba's grassroots, intersectoral cultures of participation can inform and enhance disability theory and practice internationally. Likewise, actors in Cuba want to learn from UK experiences of disabled people's self-advocacy and co-production, especially within learning disability and neurodiversity, and of ways of working online to facilitate disabled people's full sociocultural participation. Recognising intersections of ableism and colonialism, the steering group is majority Cuban and majority disabled. We will build and expand the network in four phases. Phase 1 begins at the most local level (three municipalities in mountainous Granma Province) because that is where Cuba's practice is most exceptional. Every Cuban municipality has a cultural 'module' (cultural centres, library, theatre, etc.), which means that accessing, promoting and practising culture and the arts happens through local networks rather than only in cities. This cultural participation is woven into wider cultures of participation as both a citizenship right and a citizenship duty, where development is created by and with communities and seen always as at once economic, social and cultural. This holistic approach leads to intersectoral working - the key Cuban partner for this project, the Commission for Pursuing and Monitoring the Application of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - coordinates 22 bodies working to enhance disabled people's inclusion, including disabled-led organisations advocating for blind and D/deaf Cubans and those with physical or motor disabilities, as well as the ministries of Labour, Education and Health. In this phase, relationship-building and intercultural translation of ideas and practices around disability is key. It will include a visit to Granma to see projects, meet actors and take part in a cultural-academic event that includes methodological workshops on participatory theory and practice.Phase 2 brings the Cuban team to the UK to network with universities, disabled-led organisations and disability arts organisations, facilitated by existing connections of UK investigators from the Centre for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice (De Montfort University), the Centre for Research on Cuba and the School of Medicine (University of Nottingham) and the Autism Centre (Sheffield Hallam University). This stage is vital to making links between international academic-cultural discourse and the situated action research regularly undertaken by academics and disabled-led organisations through the University of Granma's 11 local university centres and its Centre for Local Development. Limited opportunities for international engagement tend to go to Havana-based intellectuals and creative practitioners, creating barriers for provincial actors seeking to access international expertise and share their work. Phase 3 focusses on creating concrete outputs, lasting collaborations and structures to ensure the network's longevity. Key foci are: 1) systematic support, including translation/interpretation, for at least three UK-Granma cultural/academic collaborations; 2) roll-out of a co-created online forum tailored to disabled Cubans in the context of limited technology and connectivity; 3) documenting practice and network activities in co-created, accessible materials. Phase 4 expands the network to include disabled people, practitioners and academics across Cuba and internationally through opening up the online forum, a final event in Granma that includes invited delegates from other provinces and hybrid participation from international delegates, academic sharing in journals and an edited book, and sharing accessible materials and cultural/artistic outputs developed in Phase 3.

该项目旨在使古巴和联合王国的残疾人、学术界和文化从业者能够在社会和认识上进行公正的合作。我们将探讨古巴的基层，跨部门的参与文化如何能够告知和加强国际残疾理论和实践。同样，古巴的行为者希望学习联合王国在残疾人自我宣传和共同制作方面的经验，特别是在学习障碍和神经多样性方面，以及在网上工作以促进残疾人充分参与社会文化方面的经验。由于认识到残疾人主义和殖民主义的交叉点，指导小组以古巴人和残疾人为主。我们将分四个阶段建设和扩大网络。第一阶段从地方一级开始（格拉玛省山区的三个市），因为这是古巴的做法最特殊的地方。古巴每个城市都有一个文化“模块”（文化中心、图书馆、剧院等），这意味着，接触、促进和实践文化和艺术是通过地方网络而不是仅仅在城市进行的。这种文化参与融入了作为公民权利和公民义务的更广泛的参与文化，在这种文化中，发展是由社区创造的，也是与社区一起创造的，而且总是同时被视为经济、社会和文化的。这一整体方法导致部门间工作-该项目的主要古巴合作伙伴，《残疾人权利公约》执行情况跟踪和监测委员会-协调22个致力于促进残疾人融入的机构，包括残疾人领导的倡导古巴盲人和D/聋人以及身体或运动残疾者的组织，以及劳动部，教育和卫生。在这一阶段，围绕残疾问题的思想和做法的关系建设和跨文化翻译是关键。第二阶段，古巴代表团将访问英国，与大学、残疾人组织和残疾艺术组织建立联系，并与英国犯罪学研究中心、社区研究中心、教育和社会正义（德蒙福特大学）、古巴研究中心和医学院（诺丁汉大学）和自闭症中心（谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学）。这一阶段对于将国际学术文化讨论与学术界和残疾人组织通过格拉玛大学的11个地方大学中心及其地方发展中心定期开展的实地行动研究联系起来至关重要。国际参与的机会有限，往往流向哈瓦那的知识分子和创造性从业者，这给寻求获得国际专门知识和分享其工作的省级行为者造成了障碍。第三阶段的重点是创造具体的产出、持久的合作和结构，以确保网络的寿命。重点是：1）为至少三个英国-格拉玛文化/学术合作提供系统支持，包括笔译/口译; 2）在技术和连接有限的情况下推出一个针对古巴残疾人的共同创建的在线论坛; 3）以共同创建的无障碍材料记录实践和网络活动。第四阶段通过开放在线论坛，将网络扩大到包括古巴和国际上的残疾人，从业者和学者，格拉玛的最后一次活动包括来自其他省份的受邀代表和国际代表的混合参与，学术期刊和编辑书籍的分享，以及分享第三阶段开发的无障碍材料和文化/艺术成果。