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The Tibetan Sustainable Heritage Initiative

西藏可持续遗产倡议

基本信息

批准号：
MR/V026348/1
负责人：
Timothy Thurston
金额：
$ 140.43万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FV026348%2F1
关键词：
Tibetan Sustainable Heritage Initiative

项目摘要

In recent decades, the rapid reshaping of the global economy and the emergence of digital technologies have drastically altered the lives of communities around the world, whilst simultaneously threatening the existence of marginalized languages, traditions, and ecosystems. In response to these changes, grassroots activists, scholars, and national and international organizations have sought new ways to "safeguard" and "preserve" languages and traditions. More recently, "cultural sustainability"-based in equity, collaboration, and supporting continued practice and transmission of traditional practices-has shown promise for working collaboratively with communities to find ways to document and revitalize endangered expressive practices. However, while much research has been done with indigenous populations in the democratic West, marginalized communities in authoritarian contexts have largely been overlooked. This tendency to exclude the experience of marginal and indigenous communities in authoritarian contexts risks misrepresenting the nuanced concerns of indigenous communities at a moment of rising authoritarianism around the globe. It also risks misunderstanding how these communities, and how individual cultural brokers are actively working to keep endangered traditions alive in the face of both economic and institutional pressures.Building on my established record researching expressive cultures and developing collaborative cultural programming in Tibetan areas of China, I will lead a diverse team of stakeholders including academics, and grassroots cultural documentarians, to advance scholarship on cultural sustainability through examining how everyday digital technologies can be deployed not merely as a threat to traditions, but also to sustain traditional knowledge. In developing and deploying new applications and content management systems we will create ways for Tibetans to document their own traditions. In then working alongside educators and tradition bearers to co-create methods that use social media and other everyday tools to support the transmission and continued vitality of traditions in Tibetan classrooms. I will use the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for the Tibetan Sustainable Heritage Initiative (TaSHI, the Tibetan word for auspiciousness), to conduct the first such large-scale investigation of cultural sustainability in an authoritarian context.Using cases ranging from both well-supported traditions like the Tibetan Gesar epic-inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity-to endangered practices like a rare genre of extemporaneously composed satirical verse called dakpa, this comparative approach will reshape our understanding of cultural sustainability and broaden our understanding of the Tibetan traditional ecosystem. At the same time, recognizing the factors that make some forms successful is only the first step. TaSHI also creates new digital tools for cultural documentation and works with teachers and community members to document traditions and co-create strategies to encourage further transmission and practice of cultural forms, thereby supporting the continued vitality of the traditional knowledge system more generally. As traditions and languages around the world go silent in the face of social, technological, and political pressures, increasingly affordable and ubiquitous digital technologies are shaping how communities engage with their endangered traditions. TaSHI provides an unprecedented opportunity to develop and test new ways of sustaining traditions in China's Tibetan communities. Findings from minority communities in authoritarian China, in turn, will model new ways to co-create more equitable and sustainable futures for endangered traditions and help to develop theoretical and practical perspectives of cultural sustainability that can be further applied to work with indigenous and marginalized communities within China, and around the globe.

近几十年来，全球经济的快速重塑和数字技术的出现极大地改变了世界各地社区的生活，同时也威胁到边缘化语言、传统和生态系统的存在。为了应对这些变化，草根活动家、学者以及国家和国际组织寻求新的方法来“保护”和“保存”语言和传统。最近，“文化可持续性”-基于公平，合作，并支持继续实践和传统习俗的传播-已经显示出与社区合作的希望，以找到记录和振兴濒危表达实践的方法。然而，虽然对民主西方的土著居民进行了大量研究，但在专制环境中被边缘化的社区在很大程度上被忽视了。在全球独裁主义日益高涨的时刻，这种在独裁背景下排除边缘和土著社区经验的倾向有可能歪曲土著社区微妙的担忧。地球仪。这也有可能误解这些社区，以及个别文化经纪人如何在经济和制度压力下积极努力保持濒危传统的活力。基于我在中国藏区研究表现性文化和开发合作文化项目的既定记录，我将领导一个多元化的利益相关者团队，包括学者和基层文化纪录片制作人，通过研究如何利用日常数字技术，不仅将其作为对传统的威胁，而且还将其用于维持传统知识，推动文化可持续性方面的学术研究。在开发和部署新的应用程序和内容管理系统时，我们将为藏人创造记录他们自己传统的方法。然后，与教育工作者和传统传承者合作，共同创造使用社交媒体和其他日常工具的方法，以支持传统在西藏课堂上的传播和持续活力。我将使用UKRI未来领袖奖学金为西藏可持续遗产倡议（TaSHI，藏语的意思是“谨慎”），在威权主义背景下进行第一次如此大规模的文化可持续性调查。使用的案例包括被列入联合国教科文组织人类非物质文化遗产代表作名录的西藏格萨尔史诗等受到广泛支持的传统-这种比较方法将重塑我们对文化可持续性的理解，并拓宽我们对西藏传统生态系统的理解。同时，认识到使某些形式成功的因素只是第一步。TaSHI还为文化文献创造了新的数字化工具，并与教师和社区成员合作，记录传统，共同制定战略，鼓励文化形式的进一步传播和实践，从而更普遍地支持传统知识体系的持续活力。随着世界各地的传统和语言在社会、技术和政治压力面前变得沉默，越来越负担得起和无处不在的数字技术正在塑造社区如何参与其濒危传统。塔西提供了一个前所未有的机会，发展和测试新的方式来维持中国西藏社区的传统。反过来，在专制中国的少数民族社区的研究结果将为濒危传统共同创造更公平和可持续的未来提供新的方法，并有助于发展文化可持续性的理论和实践观点，这些观点可以进一步应用于中国和地球仪的土著和边缘化社区。