Mapping 'the Streets': Young Female Rappers and Violence in East London.

据说东伦敦诞生了Grime流派，其中说唱是一个重要组成部分（布拉姆韦尔2015;詹姆斯2021）。虽然女性一直是不可或缺的场景，但它在很大程度上是男性主导的（Ramsden 2022）。我在博士研究中提出的调查结果还表明，暴力的经历，无论是结构性的还是人际间的，在经常和居住在东伦敦的年轻妇女的生活中普遍存在。这个小规模的研究项目综合了这两个研究领域，并将推进我以前的研究成果。它将为从事说唱现场的年轻女性提供空间，让她们在融入东伦敦的结构中时，表达自己的暴力生活经历。与我的博士研究一样，这个项目将在东伦敦的罗区进行，我已经尽可能地匿名保护参与者。方法论与研究方法1.在东伦敦，年轻女性在“街头”经历了多大程度的暴力和安全？2.说唱音乐在多大程度上挑战了“种族”和性别的规范性结构？3.音乐在多大程度上鼓励政治声音作为抵抗暴力的手段？在集体步行访谈和1：1面对面访谈期间，将使用参与者观察的民族志方法收集数据，样本为5名参与者。这是一个现实的和可管理的参与者数量，可以在可用的时间范围内招募，深入采访和与纪录片合作。访谈是本研究项目的组成部分，为对话者提供了一个空间，让他们作为权威人士分享和讲述他们在城市中的个人暴力经历。在过去的几年里，学术界对步行作为一种研究方法的兴趣越来越大，跨越了一系列学科和实践（奥尼尔和罗伯茨2019）。它被认为是一种教学法，一种学习和获取当地知识的方式（亨利和Back 2020）。在记录和讲述南东伦敦街道上雷鬼音乐的文化和历史时，亨利和巴克（2020）写道，“[步行]涉及在我们遇到对城市的破坏时思考;它的排斥和悖论;它的性别化，种族化和分类的通行权以及无形但有形的障碍，这些障碍表明了自由漫步的权利”（亨利和回来2020：34）。绘制街道将发展女权主义的方法来步行（杰克逊2019;普瓦尔2004），并推进跨部门的女权主义观点，以了解年轻女性在东伦敦的经验。该项目将使年轻妇女能够识别对她们有意义的空间、建筑物和物品，同时将意义、记忆和故事结合在一起。我将探索权力在城市空间中的运作方式（杰克逊2019;克恩2020），年轻女性沿着种族化、阶级化和性别化的路线经历。它还将纳入共同制作的元素;步行将由参与者主导，因此，步行的路线、长度、时间和克里思将由参与者根据所讨论的深度决定。这些步行采访的半结构化性质也将有助于知识的共同生产，这样他们将告知和确定需要问的问题。在连接年轻女性的故事更直接地向更广泛的社区内，他们居住和频繁，这个项目旨在进一步推进我在我的博士研究所作的贡献，更广泛的说唱音乐和年轻女性的暴力经验在东伦敦的领域。

East London is said to have birthed the genre of Grime, of which rap is a significant component (Bramwell 2015; James 2021). While women have been integral to the scene, it has been largely male dominated (Ramsden 2022). The findings presented in my doctoral research have also shown that experiences of violence, whether structural or interpersonal, are prevalent in the lives of young women who frequent and reside in East London. This small-scale research project synthesises these two areas of research and will advance my previous research findings. It will provide space for young women who engage in the rap scene to articulate their lived experiences of violence as they are woven into the fabric of East London. Mirroring my doctoral research, this project will be conducted in the East London borough of Rowe which I have pseudonymised to preserve the anonymity of participants as much as possible. Methodology and Research Questions1. To what extent do young women experience violence and safety on 'the streets' in East London?2. To what extent does rap music serve to challenge the normative constructions of 'race' and gender?3. To what extent does music encourage a political voice as a means of resistance to violence?The data will be collected using ethnographic methods of participant observation during the collective walking interviews, and 1:1, face to face interviews, with a sample of five participants. This is a realistic and manageable number of participants to recruit, interview in-depth and work with for the documentary within the timeframe available. The interviews are integral to this research project in providing a space for interlocutors to share and speak as authorities on their personal lived experiences of violence in the city. Mapping the Streets - Walking interviewsThere has been growing academic interest in walking as a research method over the last few years, cutting across a range of disciplines and practices (O'Neill and Roberts 2019). It is considered a form of pedagogy, a way to learn and access local knowledge (Henry and Back 2020). In recording and telling the culture and history of reggae on the streets of South East London, Henry and Back (2020) write, '[walking] involves thinking on the move as we encounter the damage to the city; its exclusions and paradoxes; its gendered, racialised and classed rights of way and the invisible, yet tangible, barriers that denote the rights to freely wander' (Henry and Back 2020: 34). Mapping the Streets will develop feminist approaches to walking (Jackson 2019; Puwar 2004), and advance intersectional feminist perspectives to understanding the experiences of young women in East London. The project will enable young women to identify spaces, buildings and objects that hold significance to them and simultaneously bring meanings, memories and stories together. I will explore the ways in which power works through urban space (Jackson 2019; Kern 2020), experienced by young women along racialised, classed and gendered lines. It will also incorporate elements of co-production; the walks will be participant-led and as such, the routes, length, time and tempo of the walks will be dictated by the participants in accordance with the depth of the discussion that ensues. The semi-structured nature of these walking interviews will also lend to the co-production of knowledge, such that they will inform and determine the questions that need to be asked. In connecting young women's stories more directly to the wider community within which they reside and frequent, this project seeks to further advance the contributions I have made in my doctoral research, and more broadly to the field of rap music and young women's experiences of violence in East London.