Imperial visions of healthcare: Public health infrastructure and the shaping of the urban environment in England, 1920-1955

帝国的医疗保健愿景：1920-1955 年英国公共卫生基础设施和城市环境的塑造

• 批准号: 2594992
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF 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-2594992
• 关键词: Imperial; visions; healthcare; Public; health

The research will critically examine how discourses of public health and imperialism intersected to shape urban space in England between 1920-1955. Existing scholarship on the links between public health, the built environment and the British empire has focused predominantly on the interwar period and the role of modernist architecture in creating "a new landscape of health" (Darling, 2007) at a time of imperial and industrial decline. These analyses tend to rest on well-known modernist buildings such as the Peckham Health Centre and Finsbury Health Centre (Darling, 2007; Gruffudd, 2001; Overy, 2007), forgoing a wider consideration of how imperialist public health discourse shaped and renegotiated urbanspace in England in these years. While scholars of the post-war period have addressed how migration from former colonies was assumed to threaten the moral and urban fabric of Britain (Betts, 2020; Bivins, 2015; Waters, 1997), this work could be extended by examining visual representations of the lived spaces of ex-colonial migrants in popular publications during post-war reconstruction. I will build on David Gilbert and Felix Driver's contention that understanding the influence of cultures of imperialism on the urban landscape forces scholars to address the "architectural, spectacular, representational and lived" dimensions of urban spaces (Gilbert and Driver, 1998). I will offer fresh perspectives on the figuring of imperialism through these spatial forms by exploring the extent to which public health became a vehicle for the expression of a more domestic, inward-looking vision of empire in the first half of the twentieth century. My thesis will entail sustained consideration of therole played by photography in naturalising imperial sentiments and ideologies through the benevolent paternalism of public health provision. Historic England's Topical Press Agency (TPA) collections and the Picture Post and Illustrated London News archives will be used askey sources to frame this exploration.

该研究将批判性地审视 1920 年至 1955 年间，公共卫生和帝国主义的话语如何交叉影响英国的城市空间。现有关于公共卫生、建筑环境和大英帝国之间联系的学术研究主要集中在两次世界大战期间以及现代主义建筑在帝国和工业衰退时期创造“健康新景观”中的作用（Darling，2007）。这些分析往往以著名的现代主义建筑为基础，如佩卡姆健康中心和芬斯伯里健康中心（Darling，2007；Gruffudd，2001；Overy，2007），而放弃了对这些年来帝国主义公共卫生话语如何塑造和重新谈判英国城市空间的更广泛考虑。虽然战后时期的学者已经讨论了来自前殖民地的移民如何被认为威胁英国的道德和城市结构（Betts，2020；Bivins，2015；Waters，1997），但这项工作可以通过检查战后重建期间流行出版物中前殖民地移民生活空间的视觉表现来扩展。我将以大卫·吉尔伯特和菲利克斯·德赖弗的论点为基础，即理解帝国主义文化对城市景观的影响迫使学者们解决城市空间的“建筑、壮观、代表性和生活”维度（吉尔伯特和德赖弗，1998）。我将通过探索公共卫生在多大程度上成为二十世纪上半叶表达更加国内、内向的帝国愿景的工具，为通过这些空间形式塑造帝国主义提供新的视角。我的论文将持续思考摄影在通过公共卫生服务的仁慈家长式作风使帝国情感和意识形态自然化方面所发挥的作用。历史悠久的英格兰主题通讯社 (TPA) 的收藏以及《图片邮报》和《伦敦新闻画报》档案将被用作构建这一探索的关键来源。