Donbas in Focus: Visions of Industry in the Ukrainian East

工业化的历史和遗产会引起当地社区的矛盾情绪。虽然过去的工业成就可以成为社区认同和自豪感的来源，但工业化的环境影响和去工业化的社会经济挑战也可能对当地居民的生活产生不利影响。再生项目往往侧重于工业遗产的适应性再利用，如博物馆、旅游景点、画廊和社区空间，以振兴经济萧条地区并加强当地社区。然而，对工业化的非物质遗产的关注较少：即对工业生产进行物质和象征性投资的社区中存在的文化、价值观和关系。《顿巴斯聚焦：乌克兰东部的工业愿景》探讨了20世纪和21世纪乌克兰东部的一个高度工业化地区顿巴斯在摄影和电影中被描绘的方式，并探讨了这些过程如何在今天该地区的政治和文化景观中继续产生共鸣。将顿巴斯案例置于比较研究框架中，它质疑了该地区后苏联特殊性的既定概念，强调了英国后工业地区和社区的共同挑战和经验。虽然最近的一些研究已经开始通过文字、图像和社会实践来解决顿巴斯文化建设的问题，但在乌克兰语、俄语或英语中，没有一本单独的著作涉及乌克兰东部可视化工业的政治，以及这些政治如何在苏联和独立后的时代为顿巴斯的文化神话提供信息。鉴于顿巴斯正在发生的冲突，这种研究现在比以往任何时候都更加迫切，在这种冲突的背景下，出现了将这个高度工业化地区“异化”的明显趋势。通过与英国（后）工业区的文化建设的相似之处，该项目将为关于顿巴斯身份政治的辩论提供有价值的新视角，将焦点从主导乌克兰公共话语和国际媒体对冲突的报道的民族语言身份问题转移到讨论塑造和传达（后）工业区域主体性和经验的权力动态。《透视顿巴斯》由以下几个部分组成：1)一本专著，第一次持续研究从帝国晚期到现在顿巴斯可视化工业的实践和传统；2)一本合编的艺术作品、摄影作品和评论文章，反映了工业历史和遗产的批判性创造潜力；3)一系列的三次工业档案研讨会，围绕已建立的工业遗产藏品激发新形式的创造力，并建立利用这些资源的专业人员的知识、能力和网络；4)学校摄影项目，与西洛锡安地区的年轻人合作，开发与（后）工业景观相关的新摄影作品；5)项目摄影和创意作品展，将在英国和乌克兰巡回展出；英国广播公司第三电台的广播；7)项目网站。

The history and heritage of industrialization can evoke conflicting emotions for local communities. While past industrial achievements can be a source of community identity and pride, the environmental impact of industrialization and the socio-economic challenges of de-industrialization can also affect negatively the lives of local residents. Regeneration projects have tended to focus on adaptive re-use of industrial heritage objects, as museums, tourist attractions, galleries, and community spaces, in an effort to revitalize economically depressed areas and strengthen local communities. Less attention, however, has been paid to the intangible heritage of industrialization: the culture, values and relationships that exist in communities that were invested materially and symbolically in industrial production. Donbas in Focus: Visions of Industry in the Ukrainian East explores the ways that Donbas, a heavily industrialized region in Eastern Ukraine, was depicted in photography and film across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and asks how these processes continue to resonate in the region's political and cultural landscapes today. Situating the Donbas case in a comparative research frame, it questions established notions of the region's post-Soviet specificity, highlighting common challenges and experiences in post-industrial regions and communities across the UK. While a number of recent studies have begun to address the question of Donbas's cultural construction through word, image and social practice, there is no one single-authored volume in Ukrainian, Russian, or English that engages with the politics of visualizing industry in the Ukrainian East and the ways these politics have informed the cultural myth of Donbas across the Soviet and post-independence eras. A study of this kind is now more urgent than ever given the ongoing conflict in Donbas, in the context of which marked tendencies to "Otherize" the heavily industrialized region have emerged. By drawing parallels with the cultural construction of (post-)industrial regions across the UK, the project will contribute valuable new perspectives to the debate about Donbas identity politics, shifting the focus away from questions of ethnolinguistic identities, which have dominated Ukrainian public discourse and international media coverage of the conflict, to discuss the dynamics of power that shape and inform (post-)industrial regional subjectivities and experiences.Donbas in Focus has the following component parts: 1) a monograph, the first sustained study of the practices and traditions of visualizing industry in Donbas, from the late-Imperial period to the present day; 2) a co-edited volume of artwork, photography, and critical essays reflecting on the critical-creative potential of industrial history and heritage; 3) a series of three industrial archive workshops, stimulating new forms of creativity around established industrial heritage collections and building the knowledge, capacities, and networks of professionals working with these resources; 4) a schools photography project, working with young people in the West Lothian area to develop a new body of photographic work that engages with the (post-)industrial landscape; 5) an exhibition of project photography and creative work that will tour the UK and Ukraine; 6) a radio broadcast for BBC Radio 3; 7) a project website.