The Culture, Politics and Lived Experience of Health: Zines at Wellcome Collection

这个博士研究将探讨如何可以使用的概念，可以用来理解zines做的工作，无论是在健康的交流生活经验和支持行动主义，特别是当位于惠康图书馆的机构背景下。这项研究的目标是：制定一个工具包的跨学科的方法zines通过调查的描述阈经验和创造阈空间在当代健康zines，包括创建一个Zine研究人员的道德守则，通过参与与zine社区，研究人员和图书馆员;以评估惠康的zine收藏;并提供一种替代的方式叙述档案馆，锌收藏和图书馆对锌，探索zines可以对机构发挥作用的方式，更广泛地说，zines和zine收藏之间关系的新的迭代性质，档案。为了实现这些目标，提出的研究问题将包括以下内容：-如何在材料，文本，视觉，叙事和社会zines中召唤，创建和沟通的阈限？- 在研究背景下，对锌的伦理方法是什么？如何把一个锌在惠康收集的过程涉及到实践的社区，锌出现？作为一种仪式--一种“阈情感技术”--的锌制作与新兴的数字技术有什么关系？锌的收集如何作用于机构，这与行动主义有什么关系？馆藏发展、机构态度和文化以及编目是如何影响这一点的？

This PhD study will explore how the concept of liminality can be used to understand the work zines do, both in communicating lived experience of health and in supporting activism, specifically when situated in the institutional context of the Wellcome Library. The objectives of this research are: to formulate a toolkit of interdisciplinary approaches to zines by investigating the description of liminal experiences and creation of liminal spaces in contemporary health zines, including the creation of a Zine Researcher's Code of Ethics through engagement with zine communities, researchers and librarians; to assess the Wellcome's zine collection; and to offer an alternative to narratives about the way archives, zine collections and libraries act on zines, exploring the ways that zines can act on the institution and more broadly the emerging iterative nature of the relationship between zines and zine collections/archives.To achieve these objectives the proposed research questions will include the following:- How is liminality summoned, created and communicated in the material, textual, visual, narrative and social in zines? - What is an ethical approach to zines in a research context?- How does the process of putting a zine in the Wellcome collection relate to the communities of practice from which zines emerge?- What is the relationship of zine making as a ritual - a 'liminal affective technology' - to emergent digital technologies?- How do zine collections act on the institution, and how does this relate to activism? How is this impacted by collection development, institutional attitudes and cultures, and cataloguing?