Gender and Intersectionality on India and its Diaspora's (GRID) Heritage

珍惜和保护我们的各种遗产是我们现在和未来的一项重要努力。认识到遗产的某些方面如何比其他方面更受重视，以及如何减轻这种不平衡也同样重要。在改编自乔治奥威尔在他的书《1984》中的著名台词中，控制过去的人控制未来，控制现在的人控制过去。当今时代的歧视和不平等的经验和做法会影响到谁的遗产和哪种遗产会继续留给后代。我们的愿景是发展和巩固一个英国-印度网络，突出并深化一个分析框架，该框架意识到在重视遗产时的社会和制度歧视。我们的框架以印第安人和散居地（全球资源信息数据库）遗产方面的性别和交叉性为依据，以便在国家和跨国一级充分赞赏、参与和支持那些沿着性别、种姓、阶级和/或种族沿着交叉线受到歧视的人和做法及其遗产工作。我们计划通过在新德里和伦敦组织两次讲习班、联合展览和音乐表演，以及一个项目网站，其中有案例研究和数字化档案沿着以及其他更长期的战略，来巩固全球资源数据库遗产网络。该网络将包括三个主要领域的学者、研究人员、博物馆馆长、遗产从业人员、管理人员和其他专家：（i）工艺：绘画、插图和三维物体（由印度首席研究员Parul Dave-Mukherji协调），㈡线：刺绣和纺织品（由英国主要研究者Raminder Kaur协调），（iii）回声：音乐和表演（由联合王国共同研究员Navtej Purewal协调）。并在新德里和伦敦举办免费的公众活动，邀请公众，包括当地的亚洲人、遗产、艺术和青年团体参加。我们鼓励网络参与者通过提出以下问题，将性别和交叉性透镜应用于遗产问题和案例：-我们如何根据具体情况理解适用于印第安人和散居地遗产的性别和交叉性？从业者在身份和遗产方面以何种方式感到受到歧视？在不断变化的环境中，这对个人和他们自我认同的社区有什么影响？- 在多大程度上，赋予各种形式的遗产的价值被用来包括某些群体，而其他形式的遗产的贬值被用来排除其他群体？“艺术”和“手工艺”、“工匠”和“艺术家”等类别如何适用于利用个人遗产的作品？我们如何理解跨越不同种姓、宗教种族和地区背景的遗产对象和实践？这如何影响对他们各种家园的理解，无论他们是在印度还是在英国？我们如何利用性别和跨部门视角来增强个人和社区在其遗产基础上的能力？我们如何将与边缘化人群相关的非网络或隐藏遗产放在一个平台上，让他们现在和未来都能得到重视？通过网络活动，将建立一个项目网站，网站上将有数字化的案例研究、公共活动的视频和音频录像、开放获取的工作文件、报告、全球资源数据库遗产路线图（包括发送给利益攸关方的执行摘要）、本科生和研究生课程教材、网络中期和最终报告（包括对参与者和合作伙伴自己的网络的综合评估报告）。这份最后报告将在以后为进一步的国际研究提供更坚定的重点、目的、目标和合作伙伴。

Valuing and conserving our diverse heritage is an important endeavour for our presents and our futures. Recognising how certain aspects of heritage are prized over others, and how such imbalances can be mitigated are equally significant. In an adaptation of George Orwell's famous lines from his book, 1984, those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. Experiences and practices of discrimination and inequity in the current era has repercussions for whose, and which kind of heritage continues for future generations.Our vision is to develop and consolidate a UK-India network that highlights and deepens a framework of analysis that is conscious of social and institutional discrimination when it comes to valuing heritage. Our framework is informed by gender and intersectionality on Indian and Diasporic (GRID) heritage so as those people and practices discriminated along the intersecting lines of gender, caste, class and/or ethnicity along with their heritage work are fully appreciated, engaged and supported at the national and transnational level. We plan to consolidate the GRID Heritage network through the organising of two workshops, linked exhibitions and musical performances in New Delhi and London, a project website with an online exhibition of case studies and digitised archive along with other more long-term strategies. The network will include academics, researchers, curators, heritage practitioners, managers and other specialists in three main areas: (i) Craft: paintings, illustrations and three dimensional objects (co-ordinated by Parul Dave-Mukherji, Principal Investigator, India),(ii) Threads: embroidery and textiles (co-ordinated by Raminder Kaur, Principal Investigator, UK), (iii) Echoes: music and performance (co-ordinated by Navtej Purewal, Co-Investigator, UK).Each of these components will be developed by network participants, and supported by free public events in New Delhi and London to which the general public including local Asian, heritage, arts and youth groups will be invited. We encourage network participants to apply a gender and intersectionality lens to heritage issues and cases by asking the following questions: - How do we develop a context-specific understanding of gender and intersectionality as they apply to Indian and Diasporic heritage? In what ways have practitioners felt discrimination with respect to their identity and heritage? What are the implications of this for the individual and the community/ies with which they self-identify in changing contexts? - To what extent is the value assigned to forms of heritage used to include some groups and the devaluation of other forms of heritage used to exclude others? How are categories such as 'art' and 'craft', 'artisan' and 'artist' applied for work that draws upon an individual's heritage?- How do we make sense of heritage objects and practice located across diverse caste-class, religio-ethnic and regional contexts? How does this influence an understanding of their various homes, whether they be in India or in UK?- How can we use gender and intersectionality lenses to empower individuals and communities to build upon their heritage?- How can we place what might be off-the-grid or hidden heritage associated with marginalised people on a platform where they can be valued now and in the future?The network activities will lead to a project website with digitised case studies, visual and audio-visual recordings of public events, open access working papers, reports, a GRID Heritage roadmap including an executive summary to send to stakeholders, teaching material for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, interim and final network reports including a comprehensive evaluation report for participants' and partners' own networks. This final report will later inform the development of a firmer focus, aims, objectives and partners for further international research.