Narratives of home: Exploring the practice of space in socially engaged theatre as a means of resisting

家的叙事：探索社会参与戏剧中的空间实践作为抵抗手段

• 批准号: 2283943
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2283943
• 关键词: Narratives; home; Exploring; practice; space

In July 2018, amid long-standing and fierce opposition from local residents, Southwark Council voted in favour of demolishing the Elephant & Castle shopping centre. The decision threatens some 130 existing retailers, and the biggest Latin American community in London. The planned redevelopment originally included only 33 'affordable' properties out of over 900, although this has been raised to 116 through local campaigning.Despite recent victories against the demolishing of Chrisp Street Market, and the success of the Focus E15 campaign which gave some residents the right to stay on the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the story of gentrification in London is relentless and ongoing, and inexorably contributes to destruction of council estates and the displacement of residents of social housing.This trajectory owes a debt in no small part to both the demonisation of council estates and their residents through government, and the portrayal of them in the media through a 'failure narrative', [Beswick, 2019]. My research investigates how exploring narratives of home through theatre and performance within communities, can create strategic social change by strengthening community identities and putting these into play with key agencies. Through a series of practice research projects in different communities, and a longitudinal research study, I will document both the strategic elements that facilitate the gentrification and displacement of council estates and communities, and the way in which these spaces are practiced by residents, in order to record alasting testimony to the use and resilience of social housing.The outcome will be to develop a model of theatre for social change that aims to work strategically to resist the facilitation of displacement; and through creating a policy paper on the subject, aim to offer recommendations for the future borne out of this work.

2018年7月，在当地居民长期强烈的反对下，南华克区议会投票支持拆除Elephant & Castle购物中心。该决定威胁到大约 130 家现有零售商以及伦敦最大的拉丁美洲社区。计划中的重建计划最初只包括 900 多处“经济适用”房产中的 33 处，但通过当地运动，这一数字已增加到 116 处。 尽管最近在拆除克里斯普街市场方面取得了胜利，并且 Focus E15 运动取得了成功，使一些居民有权留在纽汉的木匠庄园，但伦敦的中产阶级化故事是无情且持续的，并且无情地导致了议会庄园和议会庄园的破坏。 社会住房居民的流离失所。这种轨迹在很大程度上要归功于政府对议会庄园及其居民的妖魔化，以及媒体通过“失败叙事”对他们的描绘，[Beswick，2019]。我的研究调查了如何通过社区内的戏剧和表演探索家庭叙事，通过加强社区身份并将其与关键机构结合起来，创造战略性的社会变革。通过在不同社区的一系列实践研究项目和纵向研究，我将记录促进议会庄园和社区高档化和流离失所的战略要素，以及居民实践这些空间的方式，以记录社会住房的使用和弹性的永久见证。结果将是开发一个社会变革剧场模型，旨在战略性地抵制促进 位移；并通过就此主题制定政策文件，旨在为这项工作的未来提供建议。