A story of her own: finding a space for women to speak beyond the criminal justice system; AH/W003805/1

这一拟议的研究网络将激发在刑事司法系统中使用艺术的新辩论，并支持合作交流思想，以制定新的理论和方法论方法来处理妇女讲述的个人故事。该项目将汇集艺术从业者，刑事司法经验丰富（CJE）的妇女和学术研究人员之间的新网络，以探索讲故事作为个人赋权和社会转型的来源的潜力。专注于故事的变革力量，我们将举办一系列研讨会，汇集艺术家，从业者，CJE女性，研究人员和利益相关者，以更好地了解叙事话语对性别和监禁的形成影响。每一个工作坊都特别强调通过分享经验和同情心引导的实践来进行合作，将重点放在讲故事实践的特定方面，以绘制语言和权力之间的关系，在判刑，监禁和释放的各个阶段。首先重点关注女性用来在世界上定位自己的故事，我们将探讨妇女被要求代表自己的语言，以及这是如何以及以何种方式嵌入先前存在的关于羞耻、赔偿、恢复和责任的叙述中的。关注女性被赋予而不是被选择归属和排斥的方式，我们将研究叙事技巧、期望和话语如何支配女性获得成功的空间。分为五个部分，每个部分都有一个独特的重点，并以小组为主导的动态，我们将汇集戏剧，音乐，创意写作，犯罪学，政策制定，教育改革，妇女权利和生活经验方面的多学科和跨学科专业知识，以探索我们如何给妇女一个空间，让她们畅所欲言：从机构身份和性别期望的话语中解放出来，通过属于他们的术语来代表自己。讲习班将以下列形式进行：1）关于狱中妇女的故事我们将合作确定关于狱中妇女的典型故事。我们将探讨我们如何接收，并居住在生活经验和艺术这些故事。我们考虑如何这样的叙述可能是有用的或限制，授权或压迫。本次研讨会将向与会者介绍叙事结构的理论，性别化的表征过程以及书面和口头语言的表现。2）披露监禁专注于"披露叙事"，本次会议将解开"披露"的术语，通过该术语，女性被迫在监狱内外采用特定的启示话语。我们认为，披露的条款是如何嵌入在系统的耻辱和诋毁的结构，不仅阻止妇女远离他们的犯罪经验，但强加的身份，不是自己的。3)沉默倾听沉默的关键经验，这一会议探讨沉默的声音，因为他们居住和妇女的经验。我们将探讨沉默意味着什么，因为它表现为压迫，虐待，避难所，真理，抵抗，拒绝和代理。作为一个女人，讲述你的故事意味着什么？作为一个经历过刑事司法系统的女人5）讲述我们的故事借鉴我们之前的工作坊，最后一个环节专注于制作个人表演作品，让所有参与者都能表达、探索和重温他们的故事。利用音乐、创意写作、艺术、声音和动作来记录一个新的、不同的叙事过程，在这个过程中，参与的妇女找到了一个赋予她们权威和作者身份的故事。

This proposed research network will stimulate new debate across the use of the arts in the criminal justice system and support collaboration for the exchange of ideas to develop new theoretical and methodological approaches to the individual stories that women tell. This project will bring together new networks between arts-based practitioners, criminal justice experienced (CJE) women, and academic researchers to explore the potential of storytelling as a source of personal empowerment and social transformation. Focusing on the transformative power of story we will run a series of workshops to bring together artists, practitioners, CJE women, researchers and stakeholders to better understand the formative effects of narrative discourse on both gender and incarceration. With a unique emphasis on collaboration through shared experience and compassion led practice, each workshop will focus on specific aspects of storytelling practice to map the relationship between language and power at the various stages of sentencing, prison and release.Beginning with a critical focus on the stories women use to position themselves within the world, we will interrogate the language through which women are asked to represent their selves and how and in what ways this has become embedded in pre-existing narratives of shame, restitution, recovery and responsibility. Attending to the ways in which women have been given, rather than chosen, the terms of belonging and exclusion, we will examine how narrative techniques, expectations and discourses govern the spaces of success available to women. Divided into five sessions, each with a unique focus, and group led dynamic, we will bring together multi and cross-discipline expertise in theatre, music, creative writing, criminology, policy making, educational reform, women's rights, and lived experience to explore how we give women a space to speak as they are: free from the discourses of institutional identities and gendered expectations, and to represent themselves through terms that belong to them. The workshops will run under the following format:1) Stories about women in prisonWe will collaboratively identify typical stories about women in prison. We will explore how we receive, and inhabit these stories in lived experience and in art. We consider how such narratives may be useful or restrictive, empowering or oppressive. This workshop will introduce participants to theories of narrative structure, gendered processes of representation and the performance of the written and spoken words.2) Disclosing incarcerationFocusing on 'disclosure narratives', this session will unpack the terms of 'disclosure' through which women are forced to adopt a specific discourse of revelation within and after prison. We consider how the terms of disclosure are embedded in systematic structures of shame and denigration that not only prevent women from moving away from their experiences of criminality but impose identities that are not their own. 3) SilenceListening to critical experiences of silence, this session explores the sounds of silence as they are inhabited and experienced by women. We will explore what silence means as it manifests as oppression, abuse, refuge, truth, resistance, refusal and agency.4) Empowering stories?What does it mean to tell your story, as a woman? and as a woman who has been through the criminal justice system? This session focuses on autobiography and life writing within the gendered discourses of care, motherhood and sexuality.5) Telling our stories Drawing on our previous workshops, the final session focusses on producing individual performance pieces in which all participants can express, explore and reclaim their stories. Using music, creative writing, art, sound and movement to chronicle a new and different narrative process in which the women involved find a story which gives them authority as well as authorship.