Security at the Margins (SeaM): Spaces and strategies for negotiating security in urban South Africa

边缘安全（SeaM）：南非城市安全谈判的空间和策略

• 批准号: ES/N009940/1
• 负责人: Barbara Bompani
• 金额: $ 14.46万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 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%2FN009940%2F1
• 关键词: Security; Margins; SeaM; Spaces; strategies

Globally, urban areas are viewed with great optimism and suspicion, as potential engines for development and destabilising vortexes of violence and degeneration. Both visions have traction in South Africa. Urban living has offered opportunities for some to better their economic standing, strengthen capabilities and expand freedoms. However, given the pace of urbanisation and problematic urban governance, urban areas remain spaces of inequality, degradation, crisis and conflict. This is particularly true for those on the margins, whose lives are profoundly shaped by the need to negotiate security and justice. The welfare of urban Others and their long-term prospects for socioeconomic development are intimately bound up in the outcomes of these negotiations, as recent waves of xenophobic violence demonstrate. Positive urban transformation requires understanding how multiple marginalities interact in urban areas. At present, this intersection has been neglected. This South Africa-UK Partnership forges an international academic network to build capacities to rigorously and innovatively address this issue. Our ambitious agenda focuses primarily on (internal and external) migrants and lesbian-gay-bi-trans-queer (LGBTQ) communities. Although the freedom to embrace diversity and difference is at the heart of a democratic city, these urban Others face the stresses of everyday prejudice and spectre of severe violence, like xenophobic riots or acts of 'corrective rape'. Security threats facing migrants and LGBTQ people are comparable, but the logics animating them are distinct, making them conducive to comparison. Our Partnership will strengthen capacities in South Africa to explore strategies individuals use to negotiate these varied marginalities, embedded in wider economic, social and political systems. It will also particularly build skills to explore roles that digital technologies play in this process, shaping flows of power, resources, and information in urban areas; and how policymakers and civil society groups are responding to complex challenges of urban wellbeing. The Partnership develops skills, knowledge, and networks, supporting cutting edge research that actively engages communities, civil society groups and government agencies. We will identify research synergies; provide methods training in Big Data, Social Network Analysis, Remote Event Mapping, and Visual Methods to push the boundaries of urban research; fund 'urban lab' pilot projects to encourage innovative methods and questions; organise visiting fellowships to provide time and space for meaningful collaboration; and provide impact training to ensure that our timely interdisciplinary research agenda has effective and wide-reaching influence.ODA statement: The primary purpose of this project is to promote the welfare and development of the partner country. It will do this in three primary ways. First, the topic of the collaborative research is crucially important for South Africa, where rapid urbanisation, entrenched inequities and uneven development risk positive urban transformation, especially in relation to vulnerable groups such as migrants or LGBTQ communities. Secondly, we will address these key concerns through drawing on the comparative and complementary strengths of our two partners, Wits University's strengths in detailed local historical, ethnographic and qualitative research and generating impact in South African policy networks and Edinburgh's strength in methods, especially interdisciplinary approaches. Thirdly, the project will draw on Edinburgh's expertise in quantitative methods and data science, and the project is designed to build the research capacity of Wits University researchers in new approaches and generate future collaborative research.

在全球范围内，人们以非常乐观和怀疑的态度看待城市地区，认为它们是发展的潜在引擎，是暴力和堕落的破坏稳定的漩涡。这两种愿景在南非都有吸引力。城市生活为一些人提供了改善经济地位、增强能力和扩大自由的机会。然而，考虑到城市化的步伐和存在问题的城市治理，城市地区仍然是不平等、退化、危机和冲突的空间。对于那些处于边缘地位的人来说尤其如此，他们的生活深刻地受到了谈判安全和正义的需要的影响。城市居民的福利及其社会经济发展的长期前景与这些谈判的结果密切相关，最近的仇外暴力浪潮表明了这一点。积极的城市转型需要了解多重边缘如何在城市地区相互作用。目前，这个十字路口已经被忽视了。这一南非-英国伙伴关系建立了一个国际学术网络，以建设严格和创新地解决这一问题的能力。我们雄心勃勃的议程主要关注(国内和外部)移民和女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者(LGBTQ)社区。尽管拥抱多样性和差异的自由是民主城市的核心，但这些城市居民面临着日常偏见的压力和严重暴力的幽灵，如排外骚乱或“矫正强奸”行为。移民和LGBTQ人面临的安全威胁是可以比较的，但激发他们的逻辑是不同的，这使得他们有利于比较。我们的伙伴关系将加强南非的能力，以探索个人用来谈判这些嵌入更广泛的经济、社会和政治制度的各种边缘问题的战略。它还将特别培养技能，以探索数字技术在这一进程中发挥的作用，塑造城市地区的电力、资源和信息流动；以及政策制定者和民间社会团体如何应对城市福祉的复杂挑战。该伙伴关系开发技能、知识和网络，支持积极参与社区、公民社会团体和政府机构的尖端研究。我们将确定研究协同效应；提供大数据、社交网络分析、远程事件映射和可视化方法方面的方法培训，以推动城市研究的边界；资助“城市实验室”试点项目，以鼓励创新方法和问题；组织访问奖学金，为有意义的合作提供时间和空间；并提供影响培训，以确保我们及时的跨学科研究议程具有有效和广泛的影响。官方发展援助声明：该项目的主要目的是促进伙伴国的福利和发展。它将通过三种主要方式做到这一点。首先，合作研究的主题对南非至关重要，在南非，快速城市化、根深蒂固的不平等和不平衡的发展可能会带来积极的城市转型，特别是在移民或LGBTQ社区等弱势群体方面。其次，我们将利用我们两个合作伙伴的比较和互补优势、威茨大学在详细的地方历史、民族志和质量研究方面的优势以及在南非政策网络中产生影响的优势，以及爱丁堡在方法，特别是跨学科方法方面的优势，来解决这些关键问题。第三，该项目将利用爱丁堡在定量方法和数据科学方面的专业知识，该项目旨在建设威茨大学研究人员在新方法中的研究能力，并产生未来的合作研究。

项目成果

Mwangaza Mama: A participatory arts-based project

Mwangaza Mama：一个以艺术为基础的参与性项目

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Edited Collection

Security At the Margins

边缘安全

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: SeaM Project