Whose Story?: Re-Integrating Self and Community through Narratives of Social Inclusion and Exclusion

目前的项目是一个团队花了四个月的时间来发展的想法和实际安排的一个大的研究“社会排斥”和故事在人们生活中的作用。下面的段落描述了我们将要开发的项目。当人们没有接受教育和就业的机会，而发现自己的生活中反社会行为，犯罪和健康状况不佳可能扮演太大的角色时，社会排斥就会发生。这对那些社会排斥已成为生活的社会和文化结构的主要部分的社区来说是一个挑战，但对整个社会来说也是一个巨大的挑战。“谁的故事？“是一个项目，旨在通过将讲故事和叙述置于其研究方法的中心，改变社会对社会排斥的理解。我们的标题抓住了这样一个想法：第一，生活在社会排斥中的人可能会感到无助和失去身份;第二，社会排斥和包容可以在不同的时间定义相同的民族和社区。我们的项目是警惕社区的地方和归属的方式，有复杂的历史。我们对故事和叙事的强调也符合一个重要的事实：讲故事就是分享一些东西，并在社会和文化关系网络中反映自我。讲故事是一种可以开始挑战社会排斥的行动形式。从讲故事中收集的数据可以告诉我们很多关于感受和理解排斥的术语;它还提供了改变行为和期望范围的手段。我们的项目已经聚集了来自英国不同地理位置的研究人员团队，使我们能够构建一个代表性的排斥和融入社区生活的观点范围;同时也是至关重要的，为我们提供了使用行动研究的基础，以创新和有益的方式连接社区。我们的研究人员团队也来自不同的学术学科和实践为主导的背景：从医学人文，精神病学，社区艺术组织，管理研究和文化创业的历史专业知识;哲学，文学批评和理论，文化历史的更传统的学科。这种丰富的专业知识组合将使我们能够开发一系列创新的干预方法，以改善社区的连通性。我们的方法将从准实验设计（一种广泛用于心理和社会科学实验的技术），到哲学家，理论家和文化历史学家如米哈伊尔·巴赫金，保罗·利科和帕特里克乔伊斯开创的叙事分析的批判理论。他们将聚集在一起，以产生具有批判性的创新性跨学科工作方法。我们致力于使用叙事来发挥作用并实现积极的社会影响，这是基于我们对认知行为疗法中讲故事的承诺，重点是理解行为，以期积极地改变行为。我们的工作方式将以行动研究为基础，我们将开始充分吸收我们的第三部门合作伙伴和社区代表参与讨论和设计我们的方法、干预措施和数据收集和分析战略。

The present project is for a team to spend four months to develop ideas and practical arrangements for a large study of 'social exclusion' and the role of stories in people's lives. The paragraph below describes the project we will be developing.Social exclusion occurs when people fail to take up educational opportunities and employment, and find themselves instead living lives in which anti-social behaviour, crime, and poor health can come to play too large a role. This is a challenge for the communities where social exclusion has come to dominate the social and cultural fabric of life, but it is also a great challenge for society as a whole. "Whose Story?" is a project that aims to make a difference to society's understanding of social exclusion, by placing storytelling and narrative at the centre of its research methods. Our title captures the idea, first, that people living in the grip of social exclusion can feel voiceless and bereft of an identity; and, second, the idea that social exclusion and inclusion can define the same peoples and communities at different times. Our project is alert to communities as places and ways of belonging that have complicated histories. Our emphasis on stories and narratives also works with an important truth: that to tell a story is to share something, and reflect one's self in a network of social and cultural relationships. Storytelling is a form of action that can begin to challenge social exclusion. The data collected from storytelling can tell us a great deal about the terms in which exclusion is felt and understood; it also provides the means of changing behaviours and horizons of expectation. Our project has assembled a team of researchers from diverse geographical locations in the UK, enabling us to construct a representative range of perspectives on exclusion and inclusion in community life; while also, and crucially, providing us with the basis for using action research to connect communities in innovative and beneficial ways. Our team of researchers also comes from diverse academic-disciplinary and practice-led backgrounds: from expertise in medical humanities, the history of psychiatry, community arts organisation, management studies and cultural entrepreneurship; to the more traditional academic disciplines of philosophy, literary criticism and theory, and cultural history. This rich mix of expertise will enable us to develop an innovative range of methods for intervening to improve community connectedness. Our methods will range from quasi-experimental design (a technique widely used in psychological and social scientific experimentation), to critical theories of narrative analysis pioneered by philosophers, theorists and cultural historians such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Ricoeur and Patrick Joyce. They will be brought together to produce critically innovative interdisciplinary methods of working. Our commitment to using narrative to make a difference and achieve positive social impact is grounded in our commitment to storytelling in cognitive behavioural therapies, where the emphasis is on understanding behaviour with a view to changing it, positively. Our ways of working will be grounded in action research, and we will begin by fully involving our third sector partners and community representatives in the discussion and design of our methods, interventions, and strategies for data collection and analysis.