Engendering justice? A feminist exploration of the relationship between trafficked persons and the Criminal Justice System

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• 批准号: 2506895
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Ulster
• 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: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2506895
• 关键词: Engendering; justice; feminist; exploration; relationship

This project proposes using a combination of Joe Norris' Playbuilding and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, as a highly innovative methodological approach in socio-legal research, to foreground trafficking survivors' narratives and disseminate these to criminal justice professionals, bringing about individual and systemic change. In doing so, it aims to generate: knowledge of the role gender plays for trafficked persons attempting to access justice; improved access to and participation in research for marginalised groups; and an understanding of the effect that this can have on the policy landscape moving forwards, providing both the research evidence and insight into attitudinal and cultural drivers to lead policy change. By using the aforementioned arts-based methods, societal relationships/understandings (e.g., those between trafficked persons and criminal justice practitioners) can be transformed and revolutionized (Shank and Schirch, 2008). This 'sociocultural empowerment' (van Erven, 2001), which applied theatre practice enables, develops social inclusiveness and builds self-confidence (Beddow, 2001), whilst uncovering societal injustices (Cohen-Cruz, 2006). Most importantly, as Bell (1994) notes, 'performance is one of the most effective means for those who have been constructed by others as objects [...] to enter into discourse and create an immediate subject position.' The project will use applied theatre techniques to facilitate the performative telling of participants' stories in a safe space, with a community who have a unique shared understanding. The group exercises will assist the identification and analysis by both the participants and the researcher of experiential and internalised oppression, by exploring memories and emotions whilst developing the physical senses. Workshops will be followed by semi-structured interviews and/or focus groups (as appropriate) to gain further insight into specific issues identified. As well as providing insight and evidence into the drivers required for effective and positive policy change, the project aims to provide a roadmap for the future use of applied theatre as a practical and emancipatory socio-legal research methodology.

该项目建议结合使用乔·诺里斯的《游戏建设》和奥古斯托·博尔的《受压迫的技巧剧场》，作为社会法律研究中的一种高度创新的方法，突出贩运幸存者的叙述，并将其传播给刑事司法专业人员，从而带来个人和系统的变化。这样做的目的是促进：了解性别对试图诉诸司法的被贩运者的作用；改善被边缘化群体获得和参与研究的机会；了解这可能对未来政策格局产生的影响，为领导政策变革提供研究证据和对态度和文化驱动因素的洞察。通过使用上述以艺术为基础的方法，社会关系/理解(例如，被贩运者和刑事司法从业人员之间的社会关系/理解)可以被改造和革新(Shank和Schirch，2008年)。这种“社会文化赋权”(Van Erven，2001)，应用戏剧实践使之成为可能，发展社会包容性和建立自信(Beddow，2001)，同时揭露社会不公正(Cohen-Cruz，2006)。最重要的是，正如贝尔(1994)所指出的，“表演是那些被他人构建为宾语的人[……]进入话语并创造直接的主语位置的最有效手段之一。”该项目将使用应用剧场技术，促进参与者在安全空间中与具有独特共同理解的社区进行表演故事的讲述。集体练习将通过探索记忆和情感，同时发展身体感觉，帮助参与者和研究人员识别和分析经验性和内在性压迫。讲习班之后将举行半结构化面谈和/或重点小组(视情况而定)，以进一步了解查明的具体问题。除了为有效和积极的政策变革所需的驱动因素提供洞察和证据外，该项目还旨在为今后将应用剧场作为一种实用和解放的社会法律研究方法的使用提供路线图。