Making Liveable Lives: Rethinking Social Exclusion

主要研究目标是超越英国和印度的女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋，跨性别者，酷儿（LGBTQ）社区的排斥/包容，创造一个可以在全球范围内适应的宜居模式。虽然已经做了一些工作来探索平等立法的影响，包括对新自由主义的正常化提出质疑，但还没有对LGBTQ人的日常生活空间进行调查。该项目旨在解决社会排斥问题，不仅通过确定排斥，而且还通过探索如何在两种截然不同的背景下在日常生活中变得宜居。（同性）法案在英国通过，在印度，德里高等法院在2009年阅读了印度刑法典第377条，将双方同意的性行为合法化-最高法院推翻了对性人士的判决然而，欺凌，心理健康和安全仍然是理解英国LGBTQ生活的关键，相比之下，2013年刑法典377的撤销被推翻，这导致了LGBTQ人的暴力行为增加。这些不同的背景被用来探索宜居的生活，不仅仅是“幸福”的生活，而且超越了幸福和福祉的规范。这项研究拒绝通过排斥/包容，到位/不到位的二分法来理解社会解放。使用平凡的东西来超越“在地方”，使之成为地方本身的共同点。这样，就可以共同分享和集体确定位置，而不必强加规范性议程/监管条件。社会解放是在日常生活的转变中进行的，而不是遵循霸权或使“正常”成为我们自己的。虽然重点是性和性别解放，但该项目将使人们能够考虑其他社会差异。它将展示地方如何产生不同的宜居性，无论是在立法改革已经实现的地方，还是在立法改革刚刚被废除的地方。因此，该项目提供了学术和政策的见解，安全，差异和充满活力和公平的社会。项目规划和研究设计，包括正式成立咨询小组和举行会议1、设定里程碑和订立所有协议/伦理批准2。文献综述探索用于评价和评估LGBTQ“友好性”/包容性的关键措施在国内，超国家和国际3。LGBTQ宜居性的空间评估，包括但不限于第二阶段确定的措施，在地方范围内应用这些措施，例如政策指标和基于地方的文化指标4。20个焦点小组（80名参与者，样本针对边缘化的LGBTQ人群），加上在线定性问卷（150），以及较短的短信文本问卷（200）/应用程序响应（200），以确定第3阶段创建的宜居性指数，以及是什么让一系列LGBTQ人群的生活无法/宜居，以及这在空间上如何变化5。数据收集的参与者将被邀请通过英国/印度街头戏剧表演重新配置场所。这些将被录像，编辑成一个简短的视频，并广泛分发。数据将通过观察互动收集;现场观众调查;对事件的反思6。研究将在收集数据集时对其进行分析。在数据收集阶段结束时，将花费时间查看所有4个数据集，以创建宜居性指数7。研究传播将针对社区和学术受众，包括在印度/英国的项目会议结束，整理政策/社区报告，学术产出。影响计划详细介绍了短期（跨国支持系统;参与者赋权），中期（政策变化，知情实践）和长期（改变LGBTQ人群的观念）的社会影响以及如何实现这些影响。

The main research objective is to move beyond exclusion/inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer (LGBTQ) communities in UK and India creating a liveability model that can be adapted globally. Whilst work has been done to explore the implications of Equalities legislation, including contesting the normalisations of neo-liberalisms, there has yet to be an investigation into what might make every day spaces liveable for LGBTQ people. This project addresses social exclusion, not only through identifying exclusions, but also by exploring how life might become liveable in everyday places in two very different contexts.In 2013 the Marriage (Same Sex) Act passed in the UK, and in India the Delhi High Court's reading down Indian Penal Code 377 in 2009 to decriminalize sexual acts between consenting same-sex people was overturned by the Supreme Court. Yet bullying, mental health and safety continue to be crucial to understanding British LGBTQ lives, in contrast the overturned the revoke of Penal Code 377 2013, this has resulted in increased visibilities of LGBTQ people. These different contexts are used to explore liveable lives as more than lives that are just 'bearable' and moves beyond norms of happiness and wellbeing.This research refuses to be fixed to understanding social liberations through the exclusion/inclusion, in place/out of place dichotomies. Using commonplace to move beyond 'in place' towards being common to the place itself. Place can then be shared in common as well as collectively made in ways that do not necessarily impose normative agendas/regulatory conditionalities. Social liberations are examined in the transformation of everyday encounters without conforming to hegemonies or making 'normal' our own.Whilst the focus is sexual and gender liberations, the project will enable considerations of others social differences. It will show how places produce differential liveabilities both where legislative change has been achieved and where it has just been repealed. Thus, the project offers academic and policy insights into safety, difference and vibrant and fair societies.The study will use a 7 phase mixed methods design:1. Project planning and research design, including formally establishing the advisory group and meeting 1, setting milestones and setting in place all agreements/ethical approvals2. Literature review exploring key measures used to rate and assess LGBTQ 'friendliness'/inclusion nationally, supra-nationally and internationally3. A spatial assessment of LGBTQ liveabilities that includes, but moves beyond, the measures identified in phase 2, applying these at a local scale e.g. policy indicators and place based cultural indicators 4. Twenty focus groups (80 participants, sample targeting marginalised LGBTQ people), coupled with online qualitative questionnaires (150), and shorter SMS text questionnaires (200)/App responses (200) to identify add to the liveability index created in phase 3 and what makes life un/liveable for a range of LGBTQ people and how this varies spatially5. Participants in the data collection will be invited to reconfigure place through UK/India street theatre performances. These will be video recorded, edited into one short video and widely distributed. Data will be collected by observing interactions; on the spot audience surveys; reflections on the event 6. The research will analyse the data sets as they are collected. At the end of the data collection phase time will be taken to look across all 4 data sets to create a liveability index 7. Research dissemination will be targeted at community and academic audiences, including end of project conferences in India/UK, collating policy/community reports, academic outputs.The impact plan details the short (transnational support systems; empowerment of participants), medium (policy changes, inform practice) and long-term (changing perceptions of LGBTQ people) social impacts and how these will be achieved.