Queering the coast: a research project exploring the geographies of sexuality on the East Kent coast

酷爱海岸：探索东肯特海岸性地理的研究项目

• 批准号: 2095901
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2095901
• 关键词: Queering; coast; research; project; exploring

The research for my PhD will use the city of London as an anchor in understanding much of the connections between cultural and social changeshappening on the coast and the city respectively. Given the proximity of the two places - London and Kent - there is undoubtedly a spill-over effect of ideology, and a series of mobilities by people, and culture from the urban to rural. This comparison of two separate (yet connected) places is important in recognising how (young) urban populations are returning to 'ordinary' suburban areas (Brown 2008, 2012; Browne and Bakshi 2013; McGlynn 2018) and creating new artistic cultural scenes that may be increasing, affecting, or redefining 'queer' places and subsequently creating new 'queer' identities. Meanwhile, the increasing cultural, physical (infrastructural) and economic development of East Kent (such as HS1 and 2 rail, the redevelopment of Dover port, harbour board, and the surrounding amenities, as well as the regeneration of Margate as a "vintage" seaside resort) are particularly important areas when considering the position of the UK in relation to international exchanges of people and technology. Kent connects the UK with Europe (the English Channel) as well as with London (and subsequently the rest of the UK via rail and road), therefore the area will undoubtedly hold a key role in the UK's ability to forge new international relationships post-Brexit. It will also provide new homes and social lives for those moving out of the city and those moving in from mainland Europe and further afield. It is because of Kent's important position economically, culturally and indeed, spatially, that it deserves and requires critical research to open up an understanding of how wider globalprocesses are shaping the social and physical landscapes of towns in this area. As my home, it is also important for me to place queer understandings within this research; my experience growing up in this area was decidedly heteronormative, through education institutions as well as lived experience in social environment. It is my hope that in combining pressing (inter)national, political and cultural matters in human geography alongside the queer experience in place, more work will be influenced by it and more queer lives will be noticed and mapped for future research.

我的博士研究将使用伦敦作为一个锚在理解的文化和社会变化之间的联系分别发生在海岸和城市。鉴于这两个地方--伦敦和肯特--的邻近性，毫无疑问存在着意识形态的溢出效应，以及人们的一系列流动性，以及从城市到农村的文化。两个独立（但连接）的地方的比较对于认识（年轻）城市人口如何返回“普通”郊区（Brown 2008，2012; Browne和Bakshi 2013; McGlynn 2018）并创造新的艺术文化场景非常重要，这些场景可能会增加，影响或重新定义“酷儿”的地方，并随后创造新的“酷儿”身份。与此同时，东肯特不断增长的文化，物理（基础设施）和经济发展（如HS 1和2铁路，多佛港，港口局和周边设施的重建，以及马尔盖特作为“老式”海滨度假胜地的再生）是考虑英国在国际人员和技术交流中的地位时特别重要的领域。肯特连接英国与欧洲（英吉利海峡）以及伦敦（随后通过铁路和公路连接英国其他地区），因此该地区无疑将在英国脱欧后建立新的国际关系的能力中发挥关键作用。它还将为那些从城市搬出来的人和那些从欧洲大陆和更远的地方搬进来的人提供新的家园和社会生活。正是由于肯特在经济、文化和空间上的重要地位，它值得并需要进行批判性研究，以了解更广泛的全球进程如何塑造这一地区城镇的社会和自然景观。作为我的家，对我来说，在这项研究中放置奇怪的理解也很重要;我在这一领域的成长经历无疑是异性恋的，通过教育机构以及在社会环境中的生活经历。我希望，在结合紧迫的（国际）国家，政治和文化问题在人文地理与酷儿经验的地方，更多的工作将受到它的影响，更多的酷儿生活将被注意到，并绘制为未来的研究。