The Post-war Dream and its Afterlives

这个ESRC奖学金项目将探索战后美学的敏感性，以及出生于20世纪40年代末、50年代和60年代初的人如何驾驭现在。通过关注英国老龄化人口成长的环境，以及包括半独立式住宅、死胡同、红砖大学校园、小学和购物中心在内的空间，该研究将研究这些空间如何影响当代生活并保持情感吸引力。建于20世纪50年代末至70年代初的空间构成了英国建筑环境的很大一部分。但除了建筑和规划之外，它们还吸引了更深层次的情感、次情感或无意识的联系（Pile, 2010）。这项研究将对这几代人如何适应和驾驭社会和文化变革产生深刻的见解。基本原理。英国人口老龄化，预计在2028年至2043年期间，65岁以上的人口将增加300万（ONS, 2019）。应对这一挑战是政府工业挑战的四个优先事项之一。2020年和2021年的Covid-19封锁加速了日常生活从物理空间向数字空间转移的过程（Florida、RodriguezPose和Storper， 2020年）。例如：(1)Evans、Debenhams和Topshop等实体店将于2021年永久关闭；数以百万计的人开始在家工作；（三）教育等公共服务实现网络化。《卫报》的一篇文章认为，像德本汉姆这样的商店“……不仅仅是商店。他们的离去在我们心中留下了一个空洞”（Toynbee, 2021）。物理空间范围的缩小可能会减少人们见面的机会，尤其是对老年人的影响。其他人则认为老年人可以推动商业街的复兴（Phillips, Walford, Hockey, & Sparks, 2021）。理论和概念背景我的博士研究项目集中在南威尔士一个8000人的定居点。我采访了20多位老年人，探索他们过去的日常生活，并利用特定场地的表演来共同创作一个更广泛的关于20世纪50年代和60年代工业和住房投资的故事。该奖学金将通过连接到非代表性理论来推进这项工作（Thrift, 2008）。这个理论是相关的，因为许多老年人回忆起的现象并不能立即被年轻的研究人员看到。此外，一个团契会给我空间去专注于一个非常复杂的本体论，即“人类在某种形式的组合中的分布，包括所有的物质”（Anderson & Harrison, 2010，第13页）。后者的作者提供了许多研究的起点，加上关于特定场地表现的大量工作（Smith, 2018）和伦理考虑（Darling, 2016）。最近的《劳特利奇地点手册》（Edensor, Kalandides, & Kothari, 2020）提出了更多建议。需要在更深层次上建立联系，并找到上下文。人口老龄化对社会包容患有痴呆症、认知障碍和其他与年龄有关疾病的人构成挑战。方法需要提供“不仅仅是说话”（Phillipson & Hammond, 2018），与老年人的知识交流（Andrews等人，2015）应该强调人类是讲故事的人，并尊重背景和“平凡”的重要性。因此，这项研究金建议以日常空间为中心（见第三节的方法），“……不同的故事共存、相遇、相互影响、发生冲突或合作的领域。这个空间不是静态的，不是时间的横截面；它是被打乱的、活跃的和生成的”（Massey, 1999）。我的导师Angharad Closs Stephens博士发表了大量关于感官自我民族志、情感和大气等主题的文章。

This ESRC Fellowship project will explore the sensibilities which attach to post-war aesthetics and how those born in the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s are navigating the present. Through a focus on the environment in which the UK's ageing population grew up, and spaces including semidetached houses, cul-de-sacs, red brick universities campuses, primary schools, and shopping centres, the research will examine how these spaces still influence contemporary life and maintain an affective appeal. Spaces built between the late 1950s and early 1970s form a large bulk of the UK's built environment. But beyond architecture and planning, they also attract deeper affective, sub-emotional or unconscious connections (Pile, 2010). This study will generate insights on how these generations are adapting and navigating social and cultural change. Rationale.The UK has an ageing population and is predicted to have 3 million more people aged over 65 in the period between 2028 and 2043 (ONS, 2019). Responding to this challenge is one of the four priorities in the Government's Industrial Challenge. Covid-19 lockdown(s) in 2020 and 2021 have accelerated the process of everyday life moving from physical to digital spaces (Florida, RodriguezPose, & Storper, 2020). For example: (1) physical shops such as Evans, Debenhams and Topshop closed forever in 2021; (2) millions of people started to work from home; and (3) education and other public services were delivered online. An article in The Guardian argued that shops such as Debenhams are "...far more than just shops. Their loss leaves a hole in the heart" (Toynbee, 2021). A reduced range of physical spaces could reduce opportunities for people to meet, particularly affecting older people. Others suggest that older people could driver the revival of high streets (Phillips, Walford, Hockey, & Sparks, 2021). Theoretical and conceptual background Theoretical and conceptual background My PhD research project focused on one settlement of 8,000 people in south Wales. I interviewed over 20 older people to explore everyday lives of the past and using site-specific performance to coproduce a wider story of industrial and housing investment in the 1950s and 1960s. The Fellowship will take this work forward by connecting to the theory of non-representation (Thrift, 2008). This theory is relevant because many of the phenomena which older people recall are not immediately visible to a younger researcher. Moreover, a Fellowship would give me scope to concentrate on an unashamedly complex ontology, namely a "distribution of the human across some form of assemblage that includes all matter of materialities" (Anderson & Harrison, 2010, p. 13). The latter authors provide many starting points to research, coupled with a body of work on site-specific performance (Smith, 2018) and ethical considerations (Darling, 2016). The recent Routledge Handbook of Place (Edensor, Kalandides, & Kothari, 2020) has many more proposals. A need to connect on a deeper level - and to find context. Ageing populations pose challenges for society to be inclusive of people who have diseases such as dementia, cognitive impairment, and other age-related conditions. Methods need to offer "more than talking" (Phillipson & Hammond, 2018) and knowledge exchange with older people (Andrews, et al., 2015) should highlight that humans are storytellers and respect the importance of context and "the ordinary". This Fellowship proposal therefore centres on everyday space (see method in section iii) as "...the sphere in which distinct stories coexist, meet up, affect each other, come into conflict or cooperate. This space is not static, not a cross-section through time; it is disrupted, active and generative" (Massey, 1999). My mentor Dr Angharad Closs Stephens has published widely on topics such as sensory auto-ethnography, the affective and the atmospheric.