The choreography of everyday multiculture: Bowling Together?

日常多元文化的编排：一起打保龄球？

• 批准号: ES/L011360/1
• 负责人: Emma Jackson
• 金额: $ 20.6万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL011360%2F1
• 关键词: choreography; everyday; multiculture; Bowling; Together

What does the relationship between a mixed public space of leisure and the people who use it reveal about social dynamics in the contemporary city? European leaders such as David Cameron and Angela Merkel have proclaimed multiculturalism dead. However, this does little to account for either the everyday ways that people 'rub along' (Watson, 2009) in diverse spaces, or the historical, economic and migration contexts that continue to create spaces of 'super-diversity' (Vertovec, 2007). This research starts with a seemingly ordinary place, a bowling alley, used by a diverse population in terms of age, class and ethnicity and standing on a busy crossroads in a fast changing neighbourhood at the intersection of three London boroughs. While the current interior design borrows the chrome and neon of Americana, the diverse collection of bowlers who use it reflect contemporary London. Through an in-depth examination of who uses the space and how, the research seeks to find out: What kinds of interactions, tensions, strategies of avoidance and of negotiation, does the space engender? What are the limits to the sharing of space and how do divisions outside the bowling alley play out within (forms of territoriality among young people, for example)? As well as examining space sharing and exchanges in the bowling alley, the research also seeks to examine the relationship between social relations inside the bowling alley and the wider and complex world of the local area. Firstly, the research will uncover how the changing uses of this site reflect the social historical processes (including economic processes and migration histories) that have shaped the area; the bowling alley is only the most recent incarnation of this building which has been a tram depot, a roller rink that never opened, a cinema (notorious during the First World War for 'gambling, prostitution and "amorous soldiers liaising with loose women" Harper, 2011), a dance hall and a bingo hall. Secondly, the neighbourhood is set to undergo major redevelopment and so the bowling alley and the time period of this research will provide a prime location for investigating these processes of change and debates about what constitutes valuable urban space, what stays and what goes; how processes of change are co-opted, resisted or celebrated by both customers at the bowling alley and by other local stakeholders. Furthermore, the research will explore how this space of diversity enacts how the neighbourhood is connected to the wider world through patterns and histories of migration. In order to answer these questions, the project uses a variety of methods including interviews with bowlers and local stakeholders, participant observation and the use of photography and video. Research participants will be asked to share photos and video taken of their activities within the bowling alley. In addition, new documentary footage will be shot, using everyday technologies (iphone) to mirror that used by the participants. The project will produce not only written reports and academic journal articles but also a short documentary and an interactive website that will be accessible, and actively promoted, to the general public.Overall, this research seeks to analyse how a diverse population co-exist and interact through the study of one site and the transnational, socioeconomic forces that connect in it through the practices of people.

一个混合的公共休闲空间和使用它的人之间的关系揭示了当代城市的社会动态？大卫卡梅隆和安吉拉默克尔等欧洲领导人已经宣布多元文化主义死亡。然而，这并不能解释人们在不同空间中“沿着”的日常生活方式（沃森，2009年），也不能解释继续创造“超级多样性”空间的历史、经济和移民背景（Vertovec，2007年）。这项研究从一个看似普通的地方开始，一个保龄球馆，由不同年龄，阶级和种族的人口使用，站在一个忙碌的十字路口，在一个快速变化的社区，在三个伦敦区的交叉口。虽然目前的室内设计借用了美国的Chrome和氖，但使用它的保龄球手的多样化集合反映了当代伦敦。通过深入研究谁使用空间，以及如何使用空间，研究试图找出：什么样的互动，紧张局势，避免和谈判的策略，空间产生？共享空间的限制是什么？保龄球馆外的划分在保龄球馆内如何发挥作用（例如，年轻人的领地形式）？除了研究保龄球馆内的空间共享和交流，本研究还试图研究保龄球馆内的社会关系与当地更广阔、更复杂的世界之间的关系。首先，研究将揭示该遗址用途的变化如何反映社会历史进程（包括经济进程和移民历史）;保龄球馆只是这座建筑的最新化身，它曾是一个电车站，一个从未开放过的溜冰场，一个电影院。（在第一次世界大战期间因“赌博、卖淫和“雇佣兵与放荡的女人联络”而臭名昭著），一个舞厅和一个宾果游戏厅，哈珀，2011年。其次，该社区将进行重大的重建，因此保龄球馆和本研究的时间段将为调查这些变化过程和关于什么构成有价值的城市空间，什么留下和什么去的辩论提供一个主要的位置;变化过程如何被保龄球馆的顾客和其他当地利益相关者所选择，抵制或庆祝。此外，该研究将探索这种多样性空间如何通过移民模式和历史将社区与更广阔的世界联系起来。为了回答这些问题，该项目使用了各种方法，包括与保龄球手和当地利益相关者的访谈，参与者观察以及使用摄影和视频。研究参与者将被要求分享他们在保龄球馆内活动的照片和视频。此外，还将拍摄新的纪录片片段，使用日常技术（iPhone）来反映参与者使用的技术。该项目不仅将制作书面报告和学术期刊文章，还将制作一部简短的纪录片和一个互动网站，供公众访问并积极推广，总的来说，这项研究旨在通过研究一个地点以及通过人们的实践连接在其中的跨国社会经济力量，分析不同人口如何共存和互动。

项目成果

Valuing the bowling alley: Contestations over the preservation of spaces of everyday urban multiculture in London

重视保龄球馆：关于保护伦敦日常城市多元文化空间的争论

• DOI: 10.1177/0038026118772784
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: The Sociological Review
• 作者: Jackson E

Bowling Together? Practices of Belonging and Becoming in a London Ten-Pin Bowling League

一起打保龄球？

• DOI: 10.1177/0038038519892528
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Jackson E

Game Over: How closing leisure sites closed down our social worlds, too

游戏结束：休闲场所的关闭如何也关闭了我们的社交世界

• DOI: 10.51428/tsr.rdqa3788
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Sociological Review Magazine
• 作者: Jackson E