Making Liveable Lives: Rethinking Social Exclusion

主要研究目标是超越英国和印度对女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别、酷儿（LGBTQ）群体的排斥/包容，创造一个可在全球范围内适用的宜居模式。虽然人们已经在探索平等立法的影响，包括质疑新自由主义的正常化，但对于如何让LGBTQ人群的日常生活空间更适宜居住，还有待调查。该项目解决了社会排斥问题，不仅通过确定排斥因素，还通过探索如何在两种截然不同的环境下在日常生活中变得宜居。2013年，英国通过了《婚姻（同性）法案》。2009年，印度德里高等法院宣读了《印度刑法典》第377条，将同性之间的性行为合法化，但这一判决被最高法院推翻。然而，欺凌、心理健康和安全仍然是了解英国LGBTQ生活的关键，相比之下，2013年刑法377号的撤销被推翻，这导致了LGBTQ人群的可见度增加。这些不同的背景被用来探索可居住的生活，而不仅仅是“可以忍受”的生活，并且超越了幸福和幸福的规范。这项研究拒绝通过排斥/包容、合适/不合适的二分法来理解社会解放。使用“司空见惯”来超越“在地方”，走向与地方本身相同。然后，地方可以被共同分享，也可以以不需要强加规范议程/监管条件的方式集体创造。社会解放在日常遭遇的转变中被审视，而不是遵从霸权或使我们自己的“正常”。虽然重点是性和性别解放，但该项目将考虑到其他社会差异。它将展示地方如何产生不同的宜居性，无论是在立法改革已经实现的地方还是在立法刚刚废除的地方。因此，该项目为安全、差异、充满活力和公平的社会提供了学术和政策见解。本研究将采用7阶段混合方法设计：项目规划和研究设计，包括正式成立咨询小组和会议1，设定里程碑和制定所有协议/道德批准2。文献综述探讨了用于评价和评估LGBTQ“友好”/包容性的关键措施，包括国家、超国家和国际3。对LGBTQ宜居性的空间评估，包括但不限于第二阶段确定的措施，并在地方范围内应用这些措施，例如政策指标和基于地方的文化指标。20个焦点小组（80名参与者，以边缘LGBTQ人群为样本），结合在线定性问卷（150份）和较短的短信问卷（200份）/应用程序回复（200份），确定第三阶段创建的宜居指数的增加因素，以及LGBTQ人群的生活不适宜/不宜居的原因及其空间差异5。数据收集的参与者将被邀请通过英国/印度街头戏剧表演重新配置场所。这些视频将被录制，编辑成一个短视频并广泛分发。数据将通过观察相互作用来收集；现场观众调查；对事件的反思这项研究将分析收集到的数据集。在数据收集阶段结束时，将花时间查看所有4个数据集，以创建宜居性指数7。研究传播将以社区和学术受众为目标，包括在印度/英国结束项目会议、整理政策/社区报告、学术产出。影响计划详细说明了短期（跨国支持系统；赋予参与者权力），中期（政策变化，告知实践）和长期（改变对LGBTQ人群的看法）的社会影响以及如何实现这些影响。

The main research objective is to move beyond exclusion/inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer (LGBTQ) communities in UK and India creating a liveability model that can be adapted globally. Whilst work has been done to explore the implications of Equalities legislation, including contesting the normalisations of neo-liberalisms, there has yet to be an investigation into what might make every day spaces liveable for LGBTQ people. This project addresses social exclusion, not only through identifying exclusions, but also by exploring how life might become liveable in everyday places in two very different contexts.In 2013 the Marriage (Same Sex) Act passed in the UK, and in India the Delhi High Court's reading down Indian Penal Code 377 in 2009 to decriminalize sexual acts between consenting same-sex people was overturned by the Supreme Court. Yet bullying, mental health and safety continue to be crucial to understanding British LGBTQ lives, in contrast the overturned the revoke of Penal Code 377 2013, this has resulted in increased visibilities of LGBTQ people. These different contexts are used to explore liveable lives as more than lives that are just 'bearable' and moves beyond norms of happiness and wellbeing.This research refuses to be fixed to understanding social liberations through the exclusion/inclusion, in place/out of place dichotomies. Using commonplace to move beyond 'in place' towards being common to the place itself. Place can then be shared in common as well as collectively made in ways that do not necessarily impose normative agendas/regulatory conditionalities. Social liberations are examined in the transformation of everyday encounters without conforming to hegemonies or making 'normal' our own.Whilst the focus is sexual and gender liberations, the project will enable considerations of others social differences. It will show how places produce differential liveabilities both where legislative change has been achieved and where it has just been repealed. Thus, the project offers academic and policy insights into safety, difference and vibrant and fair societies.The study will use a 7 phase mixed methods design:1. Project planning and research design, including formally establishing the advisory group and meeting 1, setting milestones and setting in place all agreements/ethical approvals2. Literature review exploring key measures used to rate and assess LGBTQ 'friendliness'/inclusion nationally, supra-nationally and internationally3. A spatial assessment of LGBTQ liveabilities that includes, but moves beyond, the measures identified in phase 2, applying these at a local scale e.g. policy indicators and place based cultural indicators 4. Twenty focus groups (80 participants, sample targeting marginalised LGBTQ people), coupled with online qualitative questionnaires (150), and shorter SMS text questionnaires (200)/App responses (200) to identify add to the liveability index created in phase 3 and what makes life un/liveable for a range of LGBTQ people and how this varies spatially5. Participants in the data collection will be invited to reconfigure place through UK/India street theatre performances. These will be video recorded, edited into one short video and widely distributed. Data will be collected by observing interactions; on the spot audience surveys; reflections on the event 6. The research will analyse the data sets as they are collected. At the end of the data collection phase time will be taken to look across all 4 data sets to create a liveability index 7. Research dissemination will be targeted at community and academic audiences, including end of project conferences in India/UK, collating policy/community reports, academic outputs.The impact plan details the short (transnational support systems; empowerment of participants), medium (policy changes, inform practice) and long-term (changing perceptions of LGBTQ people) social impacts and how these will be achieved.