Voicing the Eco-Political Agencies of Children Through Participatory Creative Methods

通过参与性创造性方法表达儿童的生态政治机构

• 批准号: 2446344
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2446344
• 关键词: Voicing; Eco; Political; Agencies; Children

Youth climate activists are receiving unprecedented media attention. In increasingly visible ways, young people like Greta Thunberg, Jamie Margolin and Isra Hirsi are reacting to and confronting ecological conditions and futures. Yet there is an urgent need to complement our attention to these youth leaders in the Global North with better understanding of the political agency of children in the midst of the climate crisis in the Global South. As development studies literatures affirm, it is vital to engage with children in Global South cities who are negotiating complex climate change issues and pressures on a daily basis. However, as recent work in children's geographies suggests, approaches to children's agency should include attention to the multiple, often non-verbal modes in which children express themselves. The proposed project responds to these challenges by developing participatory methods to engage with Global South, urban-dwelling primary school children to document their concerns and ideas about local environments and the impact of climate change. More specifically, I will investigate children's agencies in relation to climate change through participatory methods featuring music and sound. I will do so by staging a series of musical and vocal workshops with seven to eleven-year-old children in Bogota, Colombia. Building on my existing professional practice as a facilitator of musical workshops and learning spaces for primary school children in London, as well as my experience working with communities in Latin America, I will evolve two sonic methods: first, I will employ the histories and tonalities of Cumbia music (a musical genre that originated in Colombia) as a means to involve children in mapping stories and issues of the environment and climate change; second, I will facilitate vocal exercises and improvisation sessions to encourage children to invent their own space of communication and exchange. By engaging with children in Bogota, where I have access to space and resources through educational contacts, this project will further understandings of children's political agencies and local environmental concerns. It will also engage inherited traditions of music and sound in the Global South, while decentring western perspectives on children and climate change. Bringing together children's geographies, studies of political agency in the Global South and participatory creative methods, this project will make an important contribution to literature on children's political subjectivities in the midst of the climate crisis.

青年气候活动家正受到媒体前所未有的关注。像Greta Thunberg，Jamie Margolin和Isra Hirsi这样的年轻人正在以越来越明显的方式对生态条件和未来做出反应和面对。然而，迫切需要补充我们对全球北方这些青年领袖的关注，更好地了解全球南方气候危机中儿童的政治机构。正如发展研究文献所确认的那样，与全球南方城市的儿童接触至关重要，他们每天都在谈判复杂的气候变化问题和压力。然而，正如最近在儿童地理学方面的工作所表明的那样，对儿童能动性的方法应该包括关注儿童表达自己的多种，往往是非语言的模式。拟议的项目通过制定参与式方法来应对这些挑战，与全球南方城市居住的小学生接触，记录他们对当地环境和气候变化影响的担忧和想法。更具体地说，我将通过以音乐和声音为特色的参与性方法，调查与气候变化有关的儿童机构。为此，我将在哥伦比亚波哥大与7至11岁的儿童举办一系列音乐和声乐讲习班。基于我在伦敦为小学生提供音乐工作坊和学习空间的现有专业实践，以及我在拉丁美洲社区工作的经验，我将发展两种声波方法：第一，我会运用坎比亚音乐的历史和音调（一种起源于哥伦比亚的音乐类型），作为让儿童参与描绘环境和气候变化故事和问题的一种手段;第二，我会安排发声练习和即兴创作，鼓励孩子们创造自己的交流空间。通过与波哥大的儿童接触，我可以通过教育接触获得空间和资源，这个项目将进一步了解儿童的政治机构和当地环境问题。它还将参与全球南方音乐和声音的继承传统，同时分散西方对儿童和气候变化的观点。该项目汇集了儿童地理学、全球南方政治机构研究和参与性创作方法，将为气候危机中儿童政治主体性的文学做出重要贡献。