Cultures of participation for equitable development in Cuba and the UK.

该项目旨在使古巴和英国的残疾人、学者和文化从业者之间在社会和认识论上进行公正的合作。我们将探讨古巴的基层、跨部门参与文化如何在国际上为残疾理论和实践提供信息和加强。同样，古巴的演员希望学习英国残疾人自我宣传和合作制作的经验，特别是在学习障碍和神经多样性方面，以及如何在线工作以促进残疾人充分参与社会文化。由于认识到残疾主义和殖民主义的交集，指导小组主要由古巴人和残疾人组成。我们将分四个阶段进行网络建设和扩建。第一阶段从最地方一级（多山的格拉玛省的三个市）开始，因为古巴的做法在那里最为特殊。古巴每个城市都有一个文化“模块”（文化中心、图书馆、剧院等），这意味着文化和艺术的获取、推广和实践是通过地方网络进行的，而不仅仅是在城市。这种文化参与作为公民权利和公民义务交织在更广泛的参与文化中，其中发展由社区创造并与社区一起创造，并始终被视为经济、社会和文化。这一整体做法导致了部门间的工作————该项目的古巴主要合作伙伴，《残疾人权利公约》执行和监测委员会————协调22个致力于加强残疾人融入的机构，包括倡导盲人和聋人古巴人以及身体或运动残疾者的残疾人领导的组织，以及劳工部、教育部和卫生部。在这一阶段，建立关系和跨文化翻译有关残疾的思想和做法是关键。行程将包括访问格拉玛，参观项目，会见演员，并参加文化学术活动，其中包括参与性理论和实践的方法论研讨会。第二阶段将古巴团队带到英国，与大学、残疾人组织和残疾人艺术组织建立联系，由来自犯罪学、社区、教育和社会正义研究中心（德蒙特福特大学）、古巴研究中心和医学院（诺丁汉大学）以及自闭症中心（谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学）的英国调查人员提供便利。这一阶段对于将国际学术文化话语与学者和残疾人领导的组织通过格拉玛大学的11个地方大学中心及其地方发展中心定期开展的实地行动研究联系起来至关重要。国际参与的机会有限，往往流向哈瓦那的知识分子和有创造力的实践者，这给寻求获得国际专业知识和分享其工作的地方行动者造成了障碍。第三阶段的重点是创造具体的产出，持久的合作和结构，以确保网络的寿命。重点关注：1)为至少三次英国-格拉玛文化/学术合作提供系统支持，包括翻译/口译；2)在技术和网络有限的情况下，推出一个专门针对古巴残疾人的共同创建的在线论坛；3)在共同创造的、可访问的材料中记录实践和网络活动。第四阶段透过开放线上论坛，将网络扩展至包括古巴各地及国际的残障人士、从业人员与学者；最后在格拉玛举行的活动，邀请其他省份的代表与国际代表混合参与；在期刊与编辑书籍上进行学术分享；分享第三阶段开发的无障碍资料与文化/艺术成果。

This project seeks to enable socially and epistemologically just collaboration between disabled people, academics and cultural practitioners in Cuba and the UK. We will explore how Cuba's grassroots, intersectoral cultures of participation can inform and enhance disability theory and practice internationally. Likewise, actors in Cuba want to learn from UK experiences of disabled people's self-advocacy and co-production, especially within learning disability and neurodiversity, and of ways of working online to facilitate disabled people's full sociocultural participation. Recognising intersections of ableism and colonialism, the steering group is majority Cuban and majority disabled. We will build and expand the network in four phases. Phase 1 begins at the most local level (three municipalities in mountainous Granma Province) because that is where Cuba's practice is most exceptional. Every Cuban municipality has a cultural 'module' (cultural centres, library, theatre, etc.), which means that accessing, promoting and practising culture and the arts happens through local networks rather than only in cities. This cultural participation is woven into wider cultures of participation as both a citizenship right and a citizenship duty, where development is created by and with communities and seen always as at once economic, social and cultural. This holistic approach leads to intersectoral working - the key Cuban partner for this project, the Commission for Pursuing and Monitoring the Application of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - coordinates 22 bodies working to enhance disabled people's inclusion, including disabled-led organisations advocating for blind and D/deaf Cubans and those with physical or motor disabilities, as well as the ministries of Labour, Education and Health. In this phase, relationship-building and intercultural translation of ideas and practices around disability is key. It will include a visit to Granma to see projects, meet actors and take part in a cultural-academic event that includes methodological workshops on participatory theory and practice.Phase 2 brings the Cuban team to the UK to network with universities, disabled-led organisations and disability arts organisations, facilitated by existing connections of UK investigators from the Centre for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice (De Montfort University), the Centre for Research on Cuba and the School of Medicine (University of Nottingham) and the Autism Centre (Sheffield Hallam University). This stage is vital to making links between international academic-cultural discourse and the situated action research regularly undertaken by academics and disabled-led organisations through the University of Granma's 11 local university centres and its Centre for Local Development. Limited opportunities for international engagement tend to go to Havana-based intellectuals and creative practitioners, creating barriers for provincial actors seeking to access international expertise and share their work. Phase 3 focusses on creating concrete outputs, lasting collaborations and structures to ensure the network's longevity. Key foci are: 1) systematic support, including translation/interpretation, for at least three UK-Granma cultural/academic collaborations; 2) roll-out of a co-created online forum tailored to disabled Cubans in the context of limited technology and connectivity; 3) documenting practice and network activities in co-created, accessible materials. Phase 4 expands the network to include disabled people, practitioners and academics across Cuba and internationally through opening up the online forum, a final event in Granma that includes invited delegates from other provinces and hybrid participation from international delegates, academic sharing in journals and an edited book, and sharing accessible materials and cultural/artistic outputs developed in Phase 3.