Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) for Imaging Intersectional Gendered Violence

该项目将巩固和嵌入视觉和具体化方法（VEM）作为社会科学中已建立并广泛认可的研究实践。自2020年以来，在探索排斥和社会正义问题的创新研究方面，该项目与VEM合作并通过VEM进行了成功的研究，在此基础上，该项目将应用VEM来解决围绕交叉性别暴力的迫切和持续的研究需求。该项目的附加价值将是通过审查和提供有关数据收集、合作、伦理、影响和参与的指导，为知识生产和政策提供信息，从而确定和支持最佳研究实践。VEM包含了一系列的方法，包括但不限于身体映射、照片语音、照片激发、视觉自动人种学、电影制作和基于创造性艺术的方法，如回放和逐字戏剧、接触即兴创作、诗歌、歌曲、写作和绘画。目前的项目建立在成像社会正义的基础上，由伦敦国王学院的视觉和具体化方法（VEM）网络与艺术内阁（2020-2021）共同开发。该项目包含了一系列不同的模式，通过展示五项倡议，社会科学家与艺术家合作，探索围绕社会边缘化某些人群倾向的复杂研究问题，使日常暴力和正义斗争的人类体验具体化。这些项目探索了这种主动边缘化的动态，并在此过程中，为那些生活现实受到卢旺达、巴勒斯坦、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁和伦敦的排斥和常规暴力结构影响的人发出了声音。创意活动包括参与式摄影/声音摄影、纪实摄影、歌曲、人体绘图和参与式绘图。鉴于2019冠状病毒病大流行，该项目完全在线进行。借鉴自2020年3月以来国王学院VEM网络的这些经验，目前的项目将开创一种具体的VEM方法，与广泛的参与者（包括学生和年轻人、活动家、早期职业研究人员和政策制定者）一起研究交叉性别暴力。除了将通过该倡议开发的方法创新整合到与艺术内阁开发的在线和编辑格式中之外，拟议的项目还将描述VEM的核心维度，作为基于艺术的方法的系统集合，以探索关键的社会科学研究挑战，在这种情况下，与性别暴力有关。该项目将产生四个研究人员与艺术家的创造性合作，每个工作包一个。成像骚扰：映射和理解交叉性别暴力2. 成像抵抗：协同行动主义；3. 想象疼痛：伦理实践与脆弱性和4。VEM代表影响)。这些作品将通过“与艺术内阁合作的社论”在线展览和将在国王学院交换空间举行的在线和现场展览，以及VEM/艺术内阁书籍（进一步反思社论）（包括7个委托创作的文本）进行在线展示。它还将与伦敦科学画廊（与伦敦的年轻人一起防止交叉性别暴力）和政策实验室一起开发“Shapers”驻留项目。该项目将创建一个VEM方法工具包，概述如何使用这些方法的指导原则、这些方法的道德层面和经验教训，以及一个VEM影响和政策工具包，利用VEM改变政策和增强影响，让更广泛的受众参与预防工作，并就支持系统和立法产生知识。最后，它将通过学术产出（四篇期刊文章和合著手册）包括一系列更“传统”的社会科学产出。

This project will consolidate and embed visual and embodied methodologies (VEM) as an established and widely recognised research practice in the social sciences. Building on a successful track record of innovative research working with and through VEM since 2020 to explore issues of exclusion and social justice, this project will apply VEM to address an urgent and ongoing research need around intersectional gendered violence. The additional value of the project will be to identify and support best research practice by examining and providing guidance on data collection, collaboration, ethics and impact and engagement to inform knowledge production and policy. VEM encompasses a range of methods including, but not limited to, body-mapping, photovoice, photo elicitation, visual auto-ethnography, film-making and creative arts-based methods such as playback and verbatim theatre, contact improvisation, poetry, song, writing and drawing. The current project builds on Imaging Social Justice, developed by the Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King's College London with the Arts Cabinet (2020-2021). This project encompassed a range of different modalities to make tangible human experiences of everyday violence and struggle for justice through showcasing five initiatives in which social scientists worked with artists to explore complex research questions around societies' tendency to marginalise certain population groups. These projects explored the dynamics of such active marginalisation and in doing so, gave voice to those whose lived realities are shaped by the structures of exclusion and routine violence in Rwanda, Palestine, Ecuador, Peru, and London. The creative engagements included participatory photography/ photovoice, documentary photography, song, bodymapping, and participatory mapping. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was conducted completely online. Drawing on these experiences of the VEM Network at King's since March 2020, the current project will pioneer a specific VEM approach to researching intersectional gendered violence with a wide range of participants, including students and young people, activists, early career researchers, and policymakers. In addition to consolidating the methodological innovations developed through this initiative in an online and editorial format developed with the Arts Cabinet, the proposed project will delineate the core dimensions of VEM as a systematic collection of arts-based approaches to exploring key social science research challenges, in this case, with respect to gendered violence. The project will generate four researcher-artist creative collaborations, one for each work package (1. Imaging Harassment: Mapping and Understanding Intersectional Gendered Violence; 2. Imaging Resistance: Collaborative Activism; 3. Imaging Pain: Ethical Practice and Vulnerability; and 4. VEM for Impact). These will be showcased online through an online exhibition of Editorials with the Arts Cabinet and an online and in-person exhibition to be held at The Exchange space at King's together with a VEM/Arts Cabinet book (to reflect further on the Editorials (and to include 7 commissioned creative writing texts). It will also develop a 'Shapers' residency with the Science Gallery London (working with young people from London around preventing intersectional gendered violence) and a Policy Lab. The project will create a VEM methodological toolkit to outline guiding principles on how to use these methods, the ethical dimensions of them, and lessons learnt, as well as a VEM for impact and policy toolkit using VEM for policy change and enhancing impact in relation to engaging wider audiences in prevention work, and knowledge generation regarding support systems and legislation. Finally, it will include a series of more 'traditional' social science outputs through academic outputs (four journal articles and co-authored handbook).