Children of the Revolution - Experiences and Impact of the 1984/85 Miners Strike on Children and Young people.

革命之子 - 1984/85 年矿工罢工对儿童和青少年的经历和影响。

• 批准号: 2549525
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2549525
• 关键词: Children; Revolution; Experiences; Impact; 1984

On 29th January Sky News reported a former mining village in South Wales had the highest rates of COVIDmortality in the UK, the local GP likened the impact of the virus to ''when the coal mines closed in the 80s...Ifear there will be another generation of young people in the valleys that will be left behind" (Samuel,SkyNews 2021.) The beginning of the twentieth century saw coal at the heart of Britain's industrial complexyet by the end of the century hardly any coal mines existed (Perchard,2013). Following the closures in theearly 1990's these post-industrial coalfield communities continue to be in the most deprived 30% in Britain(Foden,2014). Prior to these closures, miners had waged a bitterly contested year-long strike in 1984/85,often considered as a key moment in the redefinition of the political, cultural and social landscape of Britain(McIntyre, 2014).3Whilst sociological research and contemporary cultural narratives have explored the complex intersectionsof gender and class in mining communities, there has never been specific sociological research conductedon children and young people's experiences during the strike and in the aftermath of the closures(Perchard,2013).This research will be the first sociological analysis of young people's experiences in the miners' strike,collaborating with participants who were children during the strike, thus creating new and innovative insightson the long-term effects of living in a post-industrial landscape of high unemployment and an influx of heroin(Holden,2019) This essential research will coincide with the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the strike andis especially timely on a wider scale, highlighting the effects from deindustrialisation and the COVIDpandemic internationally.

1月29日，天空新闻报道说，南威尔士的一个前采矿村庄在英国的COVID死亡率最高，当地的GP将病毒的影响比作“80年代煤矿关闭时”。我担心山谷中会有另一代年轻人被抛在后面。20世纪世纪初，煤炭是英国工业综合体的核心，但到世纪末，几乎没有任何煤矿存在（Perchard，2013年）。在20世纪90年代初关闭之后，这些后工业化的煤田社区仍然是英国最贫困的30%（Foden，2014）。在这些关闭之前，矿工们在1984/85年进行了一场激烈的长达一年的罢工，这通常被认为是重新定义英国政治，文化和社会景观的关键时刻（McIntyre，2014年）。3虽然社会学研究和当代文化叙事探索了采矿社区中性别和阶级的复杂交叉点，从来没有对儿童和年轻人在罢工期间和关闭之后的经历进行过具体的社会学研究（Perchard，2013年）。这项研究将是第一次对年轻人在矿工罢工中的经历进行社会学分析，与罢工期间的儿童参与者合作，从而创造了关于生活在高失业率和海洛因流入的后工业环境中的长期影响的新的和创新的见解（霍尔顿，2019年）这项重要的研究将与即将到来的罢工40周年纪念日相吻合，在更大范围内特别及时，突出了去工业化和COVID大流行的影响。