Transforming trans-national landscapes of gender-based violence through trans-sensory storying

这一建议是继“2019冠状病毒病大流行中基于性别的暴力的不可动摇性”项目之后，通过沟通及其调查结果产生影响和参与，并创造机会为新的和国际受众审议这些问题。最初的项目表明，性别暴力发生在一个“连续的移动空间”中，在这个空间中，妇女以不同的方式被动员起来。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，由于行动受限，空间被隔离和强化，这一点尤为突出。我们表明，故事揭示了关于性别暴力的新知识，这些知识在大流行之外具有相关性。我们发现，Covid - 19大流行的流动性和封锁为人们一生中对性别歧视的反思创造了空间。那些传达性别暴力的“感受”经历的故事吸引了读者对性别暴力的“世俗”和“更严肃”方面的关注。然而，政策和公众参与往往主要由犯罪统计数据的定量分析提供信息，这些统计数据在代表性别暴力的真实感受/生活经历方面存在根本性缺陷。公众、政策制定者和从业者（如警察和运输供应商）都迫切需要承认性别暴力定性描述的价值，以寻求改变性别暴力的格局。这包括通常不在公共领域的账户——在少数族裔社区，性别暴力可能更为普遍。与此同时，关于性别暴力的讨论往往发生在国内，而不是跨越国界，尽管性别暴力是世界各地妇女和女孩（包括跨性别妇女和女孩）共同（主要）面临的一个全球性问题。因此，该项目将跨越国界，跨大洲分享故事，建立新的国际伙伴关系。我们试图在英国和墨西哥吸引新的受众，这两个国家都面临着高水平的性别暴力，并且通过政策干预和高度可见的活动，性别暴力受到集体挑战。在多感官故事的支持下，跨国审议可以揭示促进性别暴力的普遍文化条件。通过采用跨国方法，我们可以开始改变性别暴力的格局，挑战根植于厌女症的文化。我们通过关注跨感官故事来实现这一点，我们在这里提出跨感官故事作为构建性别暴力故事的新概念，作为提供影响途径的新参与方法。性别暴力的跨感官故事将被转化为多样化和相互关联的感官输出，并用于引发对话。我们邀请英国和墨西哥的艺术家和创意作家将GBV的故事转化为原创作品，包括声音艺术、漫画故事、短篇故事、诗歌、立体模型等，在布莱顿和墨西哥城进行互动展览。我们将吸引新的受众——有目的地关注那些通常可能不参与这个话题的群体——包括普通公众，也包括学者、社区团体、政策制定者和实践者，他们的主要兴趣不是性别暴力，通过跨感官的故事，邀请他们参加圆桌会议——促进讨论小组，并有明确的目的和预期的结果。该项目的跨感官输出将汇集在一个编辑的集合中，通过避免复杂的学术语言和使用插图，使公众可以访问。该展览将作为实物和数字资源提供给未来的展览。

This proposal follows on from the project 'The Immobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid 19 pandemic' in generating impact and engagement by communicating and its findings and creating opportunities to deliberate them for new and international audiences. The original project demonstrated that GBV occurs in a 'continuum of mobile space' in which women are im/mobilised in different ways. This was highlighted by the isolations and intensifications of spaces as a result of constrained movement during the Covid 19 pandemic. We showed that storying reveals new knowledge of GBV that has relevance beyond the pandemic. We found that the im/mobilities of the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdowns created spaces for reflection on GBV throughout lifetimes. Stories that conveyed the 'felt' experience of GBV engaged readers in the apparently 'mundane' as well as 'more serious' aspects of GBV. Nevertheless, policy and public engagement tends to be informed primarily by the quantitative analysis of crime statistics, which are fundamentally flawed in representing a genuine picture of the felt/lived experiences of GBV. There is an urgent need to acknowledge the value of qualitative accounts of GBV - both by the general public and policymakers and practitioners (e.g. police and transport providers) in seeking to transform the landscape of GBV. This includes accounts that are often absent from the public domain - of minoritised communities within which GBV may be more commonplace.In tandem, discussions of GBV often take place within, rather than across, national borders, despite GBV being a global issue shared (predominantly) by women and girls (including trans women and girls) across the world. Thus, the project will span national borders, sharing stories across continents and building new international partnerships. We seek to engage new audiences in both the UK and Mexico, a country that has both faced high levels of GBV and where GBV is collectively challenged through policy interventions and highly visible campaigning. Trans-national deliberations, supported with engaging multi-sensory storying, can unlock the pervading cultural conditions that facilitate GBV. By adopting a trans-national approach we can begin transform the landscapes of GBV, challenging cultures rooted in misogyny. We do so by focusing on trans-sensory storying, which we propose here as a new concept in framing GBV storying and as a new and method of engagement that provides a pathway to impact. The trans-sensory stories of GBV will be translated into diverse and connected sensory outputs and used to elicit dialogue. We invite artists and creative writers in the UK and Mexico to translate stories of GBV into original creative outputs - sound art, comic stories, short stories, poems, dioramas - for interactive exhibitions in Brighton and Mexico City. We will engage new audiences - purposefully focusing on groups who might normally disengage from this topic - including members of the general public, but also academics, community groups, policymakers and practitioners whose primary interest is not GBV, with the trans-sensory stories and invite them to take part in Roundtables - facilitated discussion groups with a clear purpose and intended outcomes. The trans-sensory outputs of the project will be brought together in an edited collection, which will be made accessible to the general public by avoiding complex academic language and using illustrations. The exhibition will be made available as a physical and digital resource for future display.