Explosive Transformations: Cultural Resilience to Natural Hazard on St Vincent and Montserrat

该项目直接回应了Strand 4：文化遗产，解释和代表以及翻译文化和关心未来的主题，研究了通过过去的经验发展的文化记忆和叙述对圣文森特和蒙特塞拉特东加勒比岛屿未来火山事件的反应和恢复方式。该项目在概念和设计上是跨学科的，将文学研究与火山学、国际发展和负责岛屿未来应急反应的项目合作伙伴结合在一起，以便彻底调查居民人口历史上对严重自然威胁的反应方式，如何处理危机和进行恢复。通过这种方式，该项目通过对文学记录、口头传统和历史、歌曲和其他艺术表现形式进行比较分析，探讨灾害知识在火山风险的文化和科学经验之间的转化程度，以及过去风险的文化经验在多大程度上塑造了未来的应对措施，并与当地居民合作，以了解火山在文化想象中的地位。PI，Co-Is和项目研究员将与项目合作伙伴密切合作，结合我们不同的知识和专业知识，研究方法和实践，以研究文学研究如何有利于科学，社会和政治发展的新模式。该项目将结合联合收割机文学奖学金来探索火山在加勒比文学和口述文化中的地位，档案研究来寻找隐藏在官方殖民记录、焦点小组和采访中的过去火山喷发经历的证据圣文森特和蒙特塞拉特当地社区以及英国的岛屿侨民，在东加勒比举办了为期三天的讲习班，将项目调查员和研究员、项目合作伙伴以及来自文学学者、作家和表演者、艺术家、档案管理员和出版社的其他受邀利益攸关方聚集在一起，以及民间和社区团体，我们将在那里讨论我们的调查结果，并探讨如何将这些结果最大限度地用于受火山风险影响的社区。

This project responds directly to Strand 4: Cultural Heritages, Interpretation, and Representation and the Translating Cultures and Care for the Future themes in its examination of the ways in which response to and recovery from future volcanic events on the Eastern Caribbean islands of St Vincent and Montserrat is shaped by the cultural memory and narratives developed through past experiences. The project is interdisciplinary in its conception and design, bringing literary studies together with volcanology, international development, and project partners responsible for future emergency response on the islands, to allow for a thorough investigation of the ways in which resident populations have responded historically to severe natural threat, how crises have been dealt with, and recovery undertaken. In this way the project explores the extent to which knowledge of disaster translates between cultural and scientific experiences of volcanic risk and the extent to which cultural experience of past risk shapes future response by offering a comparative analysis of the literary record, oral traditions and histories, songs, and other artistic expressions, and working with local populations to gain an understanding of the place of the volcano in the cultural imaginary. The PI, Co-Is, and Project Researcher will work closely with the Project Partners, combining our different sets of knowledge and expertise, research methodologies and practices in order to examine the ways that literary studies can be conducive to new models of scientific, social, and political development. The project will combine literary scholarship to explore the place of the volcano in Caribbean literature and oral culture, archival research to search out evidence of experiences of past eruptions that are hidden from the official colonial records, focus-groups and interviews with local communities on both St Vincent and Montserrat as well as the islands' diasporas in the UK, and a three day workshop in the Eastern Caribbean bringing together the Project Investigators and Researcher, the Project Partners, and other invited stakeholders from literary scholars, writers and performers, artistic figures, archivists and publishing houses, and civil and community groups where we will discuss our findings and explore the ways in which they can be put to the most use for the communities affected by volcanic risk.