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Imagining the Common Ground: Utopian Thinking and the Overcoming of Resentment and Distrust

想象共同点：乌托邦思维以及克服怨恨和不信任

基本信息

批准号：
ES/K000349/1
负责人：
Caroline Rooney
金额：
$ 53.86万
依托单位：
University of Kent
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK000349%2F1
关键词：
Imagining Common Ground Utopian Thinking

项目摘要

This programme of leadership activities and research will address the over-arching Global Uncertainties strategic aim of 'security for all in a changing world' primarily through engagement with the Ideas and Beliefs core area. The working hypothesis of the proposed programme is that 'security for all in a changing world' is dependent on the capacity to imagine a common ground and a common humanity, which is in turn dependent on the ability to overcome resentment and distrust, and on the ability to deploy a certain utopian form of thinking. What will be explored is the role of prospective and projective thinking in advancing social justice and social cohesion, as well as its potential for impeding such. A key aim of the programme is to provide opportunities for synergies under the Global Uncertainties scheme in areas of existing and emergent research, and to identify the mutual concerns of this work, especially with respect to the question of understanding how human capabilities may be drawn on to enhance security. In particular, research activities will serve to focus attention on the following topics of enquiry: cross-cultural understandings of extremism, especially from the perspective of youth culture and with respect to its potential common ground; the potential loss of faith in humanity occasioned by violent sectarian conflict and forms of post-conflict rehabilitation that aim to rebuild trust and strengthen social resilience; perceived forms of political negligence in relation to social autonomy and welcome and unwelcome forms of state intervention; the role that popular culture and community arts initiatives are able to play in transforming the disadvantaged sectors of developing societies and new democracies through drawing on local resources and advancing social and economic inclusiveness, together with the role played by community leaders in this regard; the destructive and constructive aspects of utopian thinking with respect to questions of idealism, social expectations and aspirations, and the grounds for consensual action. The proposed programme of research will be carried out through a series of Global Uncertainties events (a conference and workshops) entailing public sector involvement, together with practice-based research in the form of creative projects, fieldwork and the setting up of networks. The first of the two creative projects consists of the making of a documentary film on post-conflict rehabilitation in Beirut that will be of wider significance to the MENA region. The second of the two creative projects concerns the scripting and mounting of a UK-based hip hop performance offering youth perspectives on questions of extremism, political distrust and pathways to justice. The fieldwork entails studies of community arts-based social initiatives, together with filmed portraits of inspiring role models, in the locations of Cape Town, Cairo and Delhi, in order to facilitate opportunities for knowledge exchange. Related to this, the project will serve to set up a network of experts on popular culture in the Middle East and Africa in the form of a cultural academy comprised of UK academics and their international counterparts, together with practitioners in the areas of the arts and new media. It is envisaged that this network will serve as a resource base for cultural organizations, NGOs and charities interested in the role of the popular imagination in instigating forms of social mobilization and receptive to new forms of cultural diplomacy. This project will also serve to foster collaborations between universities in the UK, the MENA region and Southern Africa through pilot workshops that will serve to activate the network. The PI will be assisted by an early career Research Associate for the first two years of the project and the programme will further lead to edited collections of essays and a monograph on literary attempts to establish the common ground of cultures in the Middle East.

这一领导活动和研究方案将主要通过参与思想和信仰核心领域，实现“在不断变化的世界中实现所有人的安全”这一全球不可持续的战略目标。拟议方案的工作假设是，“在一个不断变化的世界中实现所有人的安全”取决于设想共同立场和共同人性的能力，而这又取决于克服怨恨和不信任的能力，以及部署某种乌托邦式思维的能力。将探讨的是前瞻性和投射性思维在促进社会正义和社会凝聚力方面的作用，以及其阻碍社会正义和社会凝聚力的潜力。该方案的一个主要目的是在全球无核武器计划下，在现有和新出现的研究领域提供协同增效的机会，并确定这项工作的共同关切，特别是在了解如何利用人的能力来加强安全的问题上。特别是，研究活动将有助于集中关注以下调查专题：对极端主义的跨文化理解，特别是从青年文化的角度及其潜在的共同点;暴力教派冲突可能导致的对人类丧失信心的问题，以及旨在重建信任和加强社会复原力的冲突后恢复形式;与社会自治有关的政治疏忽形式以及受欢迎和不受欢迎的国家干预形式;大众文化和社区艺术举措能够发挥作用，通过利用当地资源和促进社会和经济包容性，改变发展中社会和新民主国家的弱势群体，以及社区领导人在这方面所发挥的作用;乌托邦思想在理想主义、社会期望和愿望以及协商一致行动的基础等问题上的破坏性和建设性方面。拟议的研究方案将通过一系列需要公共部门参与的全球Underwater活动（会议和讲习班）以及以创造性项目、实地工作和建立网络为形式的基于实践的研究来实施。两个创造性项目中的第一个项目是制作一部关于贝鲁特冲突后重建的纪录片，这部纪录片将对中东和北非地区具有更广泛的意义。两个创意项目中的第二个涉及英国嘻哈表演的脚本和安装，为青年提供关于极端主义，政治不信任和正义途径问题的观点。实地工作包括在开普敦、开罗和德里等地研究以社区艺术为基础的社会举措，并拍摄鼓舞人心的榜样肖像，以促进知识交流的机会。与此相关的是，该项目将以文化学院的形式建立一个中东和非洲流行文化专家网络，该文化学院由联合王国学者及其国际同行以及艺术和新媒体领域的从业人员组成。预计这一网络将成为关心大众想象力在激发各种形式的社会动员和接受新形式的文化外交方面的作用的文化组织、非政府组织和慈善机构的资源基础。该项目还将通过试点讲习班促进联合王国、中东和北非地区和南部非洲大学之间的合作，这些讲习班将有助于激活该网络。PI将在项目的头两年得到一名早期职业研究助理的协助，该方案将进一步导致编辑的论文集和一本关于试图建立中东文化共同点的文学专著。