Snapshots of Syrian displacement: Re-evaluating humanitarian portrayals of resilience and vulnerability through photovoice

叙利亚流离失所的快照：通过照片语音重新评估人道主义对复原力和脆弱性的描述

• 批准号: 2879912
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879912
• 关键词: Snapshots; Syrian; displacement; Re; evaluating

This investigation will value embodied knowledge through the feminist understanding that all people can produce knowledge and theory. To achieve this aim, this mixed-methods investigation will combine artistic production with social scientific data collection through "photovoice" - a participatory action research technique where participants take photographs to record their lived experiences and showcase both the strengths and concerns of their community (Wang & Burris, 1997). This decolonial research methodology allows participants to shape the research directly (Dodman, 2003), which can act as an intervention against damage-centric research on marginalized communities (Tuck, 2009). While photovoice has been increasingly utilized to document the experiences of displaced individuals in third countries of resettlement, such as the U.S. and Canada (see Miled, 2020 and Saksena & McMorrow, 2020), it has not been used in Jordan. First, multiple participant groups (individuals living in the same housing unit/area) will be given cameras and take photographs to reflect their experiences being Syrian in Jordan. Next, each group will participate in a two-part focus group. In the first stage, participants will discuss the photographs, producing knowledge regarding Syrian perceptions of displacement. This will reveal the extent to which Syrians utilize resilience or vulnerability frameworks, or whether they have alternative ways of understanding their displacement, humanitarian responses, and their futures. Then, in the second stage, participants will be given copies of photographs and written passages depicting Syrian displacement within publicly available 3RP documents. Participants will be asked to reflect on these materials, providing feedback on humanitarian portrayals of Syrian displacement and their lived experience with aid groups. This comparison of participant-taken photographs and humanitarian documents reflects an innovative expansion of the photovoice methodology to include a critical discourse analysis of 3RP publications.For this investigation, I narrowed my scope to Jordan as the close collaboration between the Jordanian government and humanitarian/development actors has resulted in the widespread implementation of resilience-centric programming (UNHCR & UN Women, 2021). I will locate interested participants through my previously established on-the-ground relationships with Syrian communities and community-based organizations (CBOs), as I have prior research and grassroots-project implementation experience with Syrians in Jordan. Further, this research will include both women and men, as there is a critical lack of research investigating the concerns of Syrian men in Jordan, especially regarding their interactions with humanitarian programming (Turner, 2019).Overall, this research will use art-based research methodologies within the social science fields of Development Studies and Middle East Studies to critically examine whether humanitarian/development discourses and programs in Jordan reflect the desires of Syrian communities. this research can lay the foundations for further context-specific work aiming to centre the voices of displaced persons and reveal the power prevalent in global humanitarian systems to improve the health, well-being, and social care of the displaced. I will also publish an "alternative humanitarian report" on a publicly accessible website, which will utilize the format of a traditional humanitarian publication, but instead contain the photographs, stories, and findings of this research project. This will act as an intervention against top-down portrayals of Syrian lived experiences, while advocating for a re-centering of Syrian desires to guide future discourses and policies.

这项调查将通过女权主义的理解来重视体现的知识，即所有人都可以产生知识和理论。为了实现这一目标，这项混合方法的调查将通过“ Photovoice”（一种参与式行动研究技术）将艺术生产与社会科学数据收集相结合，参与者拍摄照片来记录他们的生活经验并展示其社区的优势和关注点（Wang＆Burris，1997）。这种非统治研究方法使参与者可以直接塑造研究（Dodman，2003），这可以作为对以损害为中心的社区的干预（Tuck，2009）。尽管越来越多地利用了光电库来记录第三个国家（例如美国和加拿大）流离失所者的经历（请参阅2020年的MILED和2020年的Saksena＆McMorrow，2020年），但在约旦尚未使用。首先，将为多个参与者（居住在同一住房单位/地区的人）获得摄像机，并拍摄照片以反映他们在约旦的叙利亚人的经历。接下来，每个小组将参加一个分为两部分的焦点小组。在第一阶段，参与者将讨论照片，从而产生有关叙利亚流离失所感的知识。这将揭示叙利亚人利用韧性或脆弱性框架的程度，或者他们是否有其他理解其流离失所，人道主义反应和未来的方式。然后，在第二阶段，将为参与者提供照片和书面段落的副本，描绘了公开可用的3RP文档中的叙利亚流离失所。将要求参与者反思这些材料，从而提供有关叙利亚流离失所的人道主义刻画及其在援助团体中的生活经验的反馈。这种对参与者照片和人道主义文件的比较反映了光电图方法的创新扩展，包括对3RP出版物的批判性话语分析。对于这项调查，我范围范围缩小了约旦的范围，因为约旦政府政府与人类/发展参与者之间的紧密合作是在妇女中造成的，该计划是妇女的普遍实施。我将通过与叙利亚社区和社区组织（CBO）（CBO）建立的现场关系来找到感兴趣的参与者，因为我先前与约旦的叙利亚人有研究和基层项目的实施经验。 Further, this research will include both women and men, as there is a critical lack of research investigating the concerns of Syrian men in Jordan, especially regarding their interactions with humanitarian programming (Turner, 2019).Overall, this research will use art-based research methodologies within the social science fields of Development Studies and Middle East Studies to critically examine whether humanitarian/development discourses and programs in Jordan reflect the desires of Syrian communities.这项研究可以为进一步的上下文特定工作奠定基础，旨在以流离失所者的声音为中心，并揭示全球人道主义体系中普遍存在的力量，以改善流离失所者的健康，福祉和社会护理。我还将在公共访问的网站上发布“替代人道主义报告”，该网站将利用传统的人道主义出版物的形式，而是包含该研究项目的照片，故事和发现。这将作为对自上而下的叙利亚生活经历的刻画的干预，同时主张重新定居叙利亚人的欲望来指导未来的话语和政策。