Lost in Silence: Children's Geographies and Material Memories of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

迷失在沉默中：1971 年孟加拉国解放战争的儿童地理和物质记忆。

• 批准号: 2594851
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 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-2594851
• 关键词: Lost; Silence; Children; Geographies; Material

The Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 resulted in creating new identities for people affected and displaced by the cataclysmic event. Despite its mnemonic significance, individual memories of children's everyday spaces in Bangladesh and India during the war remain rare. This PhD project will explore how the spatiotemporal and material aspects of schools might mediate memories of the Bangladesh liberation war. The research will explore the interactions between children's war memories in the school environments and those constituted since then - and still visible - in the materialities of schools affected by the conflict. The research draws from the interdisciplinary framework of children's geographies and memory studies, with emphasis on children's everyday lives (Silova et al, 2018), children's experiences of war (Wells, 2017) and children's lifelong relationship with the material environment (Kraftl, 2020).The research will analyse how the spaces of schools affected during the war and their materiality intersect with individual childhood memories and generate transgenerational memories. It will further locate collective memories generated by the States in the spaces of schools. The interrelationship between individual, transgenerational and collective memories will help in (re)interpreting the war narratives in the spaces of schools in Bangladesh and India. The qualitative PhD research will be based on ethnographically-oriented methods, such as observations, interviews and archival research. Observations will be regarding the material memories of the war preserved in the schools and surrounding environments, such as photos, documents and memorabilia. Interviews with former students at these schools will provide understanding of their material memories of childhood during the war. Similarly, interviews of children in the same schools/neighbourhoods in present times will offer understanding of the transgenerational memories of the war. The archival research, such as press reports, government documents, photographs and memorabilia preserved by the States in the spaces of schools will give insights of the collective memories.In South Asia, pioneering efforts like the Liberation war museum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the online museum of material memory of the Indian subcontinent, the Partition museum in Amritsar, Unlock Hundarman museum of memories at India-Pakistan border in Kashmir, have raised awareness of the relevance of material memories. Adding to this, the PhD research will open new pathwaysof children's engagement with spaces in conflict zones.

1971年的孟加拉国解放战争为受灾难性事件影响和流离失所的人们创造了新的身份。尽管它的记忆意义，在战争期间，孟加拉国和印度儿童的日常空间的个人记忆仍然很少。这个博士项目将探讨学校的时空和物质方面如何调解孟加拉国解放战争的记忆。该研究将探索学校环境中儿童的战争记忆与此后在受冲突影响的学校物质中仍然可见的战争记忆之间的相互作用。这项研究借鉴了儿童地理和记忆研究的跨学科框架，重点是儿童的日常生活（Silova等人，2018），儿童的战争经历（威尔斯，2017）和儿童的终身关系与物质环境（Kraftl，2020年）这项研究将分析在战争期间受影响的学校空间及其物质性如何与个人的童年记忆交织在一起，跨代记忆它将进一步定位国家在学校空间中产生的集体记忆。个人、代际和集体记忆之间的相互关系将有助于（重新）解释孟加拉国和印度学校空间中的战争叙事。定性博士研究将基于民族志导向的方法，如观察，访谈和档案研究。观察将涉及保存在学校和周围环境中的战争物质记忆，如照片、文件和纪念品。与这些学校以前的学生的访谈将有助于了解他们在战争期间童年的物质记忆。同样，对同一学校/社区的儿童进行访谈，将有助于了解几代人对战争的记忆。档案研究，如新闻报道，政府文件，照片和纪念品保存的国家在学校的空间将给予深入的集体记忆。在南亚，开创性的努力，如解放战争博物馆在达卡，孟加拉国，网上博物馆的物质记忆的印度次大陆，分区博物馆在阿姆利则，纪念博物馆在印度和巴基斯坦边境的克什米尔，提高了人们对物质记忆相关性的认识。除此之外，博士研究将开辟儿童参与冲突地区空间的新途径。