Sound, spatial justice and social infrastructures: participatory listening research for public engagement and policy mobilisation

健全的空间正义和社会基础设施：公众参与和政策动员的参与式倾听研究

• 批准号: ES/Y010388/1
• 负责人: Bethan Prosser
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 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=ES%2FY010388%2F1
• 关键词: Sound; spatial; justice; social; infrastructures

Wave after wave of crises and polarising inequalities have renewed policy attention onto how local communities themselves can provide vital support, knowledge and leadership in forging solutions. The rise in deep poverty requires radical change and new ways to imagine and shape our transition out of such foundational challenges (Joseph Rowntree Trust, 2023). Brexit and the pandemic have simultaneously demonstrated stark uneven geographies and the potential power of neighbourhood resilience (Unwin, 2023). There is both a consultation need and fatigue around social infrastructures, regeneration, public health and sustainability (Wynn et al., 2022; RTPI, 2023). Creative practices present a source of transformational change that can stimulate new connections, imagine different futures and inspire action (Vervoot et al., 2023). My PhD research pioneers a creative participatory methodology that can make timely contributions to public engagement in these social policy realms, which this Fellowship aims to mobilise.I have developed a co-methodology, participatory listening research, that can be extended and applied to public engagement. Participatory listening research is a way of listening with others to our environment that generates new knowledge whilst embracing different listening experiences, practices and positionalities. Specifically, the PhD research applied this approach to gentrification, asking: What can listening with residents on the UK south coast tell us about urban seaside gentrification and displacement injustices? Gentrification is popularly contested and deeply rooted in policy-relevant spatial dynamics, offering a window onto broader societal trends (Smith, 2005). Listening creates a different way of connecting to over-rehearsed yet persistent issues of spatial injustice. By combining sound (Oliveros, 2003; Robinson, 2020) and mobile studies (Sheller, 2020) with a participatory ethos (Beebeejaun et al., 2013), listening with residents can expand our understandings of relationships to place and hyperlocal socio-environmental change.Looking to the other extreme of uneven geographies, the government's Levelling Up agenda is concerned with restoring pride in place and social infrastructures in 'left behind communities' (APPG, 2023). Defined as 'the framework of institutions and the physical spaces that support shared civic life' (ibid:6), social infrastructures can seed social capital (British Academy & Power to Change, 2023). This has refocused public engagement attention onto devolved and neighbourhood-led infrastructures, such as Labour's parallel Take Back Control (Norris, 2023). My gentrification-specific analysis can be expanded to these broader policy concerns, questioning how hyperlocal socio-environmental change resonates through: the re-engagement of underserved communities, de-gentrification, public health and sustainability agendas. Participatory listening research offers a new method for public engagement that is mutually beneficial, restorative and imaginatively-oriented. The Fellowship activities will extend, apply and deepen this methodology through creative engagement, knowledge exchange and academic dissemination. Firstly, I will add a novel dissemination method to the toolbox by co-creating interactive listening walks, geo-locative mobile soundwalks, a podcast and digital story that share the gentrification findings. These will be co-designed with local arts-based organisation, Brighton & Hove Music for Connection, in consultation with residents advisory and community groups. Secondly, using these creative outputs, a series of knowledge exchange symposia will be hosted with relevant academic, practice and policy networks. Thirdly, I will deepen the academic significance of this approach through journal publications, conference papers and funding proposals. Overall, the Fellowship will enable me to transition from the doctorate into a career as an applied and engaged social policy researcher.

一波又一波的危机和两极分化的不平等使政策重新关注地方社区本身如何在制定解决方案方面提供至关重要的支持、知识和领导。深度贫困的增加需要激进的变革和新的方式来想象和塑造我们的过渡，以摆脱这些根本性的挑战（Joseph Rowntree Trust, 2023）。英国脱欧和新冠肺炎疫情同时显示了明显的地域不均衡和社区抵御能力的潜在力量（Unwin， 2023年）。在社会基础设施、再生、公共卫生和可持续性方面存在咨询需求和疲劳（Wynn et al., 2022； RTPI, 2023）。创造性实践是转型变革的源泉，可以激发新的联系，想象不同的未来，激发行动（Vervoot et al., 2023）。我的博士研究开创了一种创造性的参与式方法，可以及时促进公众参与这些社会政策领域，这是本奖学金旨在动员的。我开发了一种共同的方法，参与式倾听研究，它可以扩展并应用于公众参与。参与式听力研究是一种与他人一起倾听我们的环境的方式，在接受不同的听力经验、实践和立场的同时，产生新的知识。具体来说，博士研究将这种方法应用于士绅化，并提出：从英国南海岸的居民那里，我们可以了解到城市海滨士绅化和流离失所的不公正现象。中产阶级化受到广泛争议，并深深植根于与政策相关的空间动态，为更广泛的社会趋势提供了一个窗口（Smith, 2005）。倾听创造了一种不同的方式来连接过度排练但持续存在的空间不公正问题。通过将声音（Oliveros, 2003; Robinson, 2020）和移动研究（Sheller, 2020）与参与性精神（Beebeejaun等人，2013）相结合，与居民一起倾听可以扩展我们对地点和超本地社会环境变化关系的理解。从地域不均衡的另一个极端来看，政府的“升级议程”关注的是恢复“落后社区”的自豪感和社会基础设施（APPG, 2023）。社会基础设施被定义为“支持共享公民生活的制度框架和物理空间”（同上：6），可以为社会资本提供种子（英国学院与变革力量，2023）。这使得公众参与的注意力重新集中到权力下放和社区主导的基础设施上，比如工党的“收回控制权”（Norris， 2023年）。我对中产阶级化的具体分析可以扩展到这些更广泛的政策问题，质疑超本地化的社会环境变化如何通过以下方式产生共鸣：服务不足社区的重新参与、去中产阶级化、公共卫生和可持续发展议程。参与式倾听研究为公众参与提供了一种新的方法，这种方法是互利的、恢复性的、以想象力为导向的。奖学金活动将通过创造性的参与、知识交流和学术传播来扩展、应用和深化这一方法。首先，我将在工具箱中添加一种新的传播方法，通过共同创建交互式聆听步行、地理定位移动声音步行、播客和数字故事来分享中产阶级化的发现。这些将与当地艺术组织布莱顿和霍夫音乐连接共同设计，并与居民咨询和社区团体协商。其次，利用这些创意成果，与相关的学术、实践和政策网络举办一系列知识交流研讨会。第三，我将通过期刊出版物、会议论文和资助提案来深化这一方法的学术意义。总的来说，该奖学金将使我从博士学位过渡到一个应用和从事社会政策研究的职业。