Gender, Generation and Climate Change (GENERATE): Creative Approaches to Building Inclusive and Climate Resilient Cities in Uganda and Myanmar

GENCE将结合和动员社会科学和艺术，以加强气候适应性城市治理的影响和包容性。随着灾难性和缓慢发生的气候事件在世界各地出现和增加，越来越多的人迁移到城市中心，社会不平等--包括性别--将表现为气候变化的不均衡影响。在气候政策和实践以及城市治理中扩大和深化目前的性别方法，往往忽视年龄是一个变量，往往将性别仅仅等同于妇女(特别是贫穷的农村妇女)，往往排除男女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人、同性恋者和双性人的经历。这是对气候变化“性别-年龄-城市”界面的首次系统和以艺术为基础的探索，其独特之处在于将应用艺术和社会科学方法结合在一起，以探索性别和年龄如何相交并在不平等中表现出来。它将提供关键的新证据，说明性别、性别和世代排斥的模式和结构如何增加城市居民对气候变化的脆弱性，并降低他们从气候行动和可持续发展中公平受益的能力。将重点放在两个高危国家：乌干达和缅甸，GENERE将建立一个创造性的、女权主义和参与性的研究框架，将来自六个二线城市的儿童、成人和老年人的观点随着时间的推移汇集在一起。将来自英国、乌干达和缅甸的研究人员、艺术家、城市社区和主要利益攸关方组成的跨学科团队聚集在一起，将使用基于人种学原则(解释性、沉浸式、批判性、女权主义、反身性)的参与性艺术方法，发展新的经验、理论和方法见解，对履行英国提供实现可持续发展目标所需证据基础的承诺和义务至关重要。该项目将调查如何将参与性艺术和社会科学技术结合在一起，以加强以行动为基础的研究的潜力，以应对性别平等和气候变化的全球挑战。GENERATE将从“上方”(国际、国家、区域和地方政策制定者、机构和治理)和“下方”(生活在城市环境中的人的日常经验和做法)调查关于“性别-年龄-城市”界面的不同视角。通过这样做，它将增加对城市气候变化如何不仅是一种性别体验，而且是一种代际体验的理解；受到(社会)年龄和其他相互交错的身份标志的影响，包括性取向、种族、宗教、婚姻状况、移民和社会经济地位。它将创造性地应用调查结果来弥合这些不同的观点，以便探索在气候行动中改变性别不平等的更多社会公正的方法；并审查创造性的方法如何挑战歧视性的规范和做法，并提高被边缘化群体在城市气候规划和决策中的形象和参与。将与来自政府各部委、(特别)国家机构、城市当局和第三部门的利益攸关方合作，共同制定、试点和评估以艺术为主导、与背景相关和有证据的战略，以更公平地容纳日益增长的城市人口，并推动实现性别平等和更广泛的社会正义所需的社会变革。

GENERATE will combine and mobilise social science and the arts to strengthen the impact and inclusivity of climate resilient urban governance. As catastrophic and slow-onset climate events emerge and increase across the world, and growing numbers migrate to urban centres, social inequalities - including gender - will manifest in uneven impacts of climate change. GENERATE aims to broaden and deepen current approaches to gender in climate policy and practice and urban governance, which tend to neglect age as a variable, and frequently equate gender solely with women (and poor rural women in particular), often excluding the experiences of men and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people. This first systematic and arts-based exploration of the 'gender-age-urban' interface of climate change is distinctive in bringing together applied arts and social science methodologies to explore how gender and age intersect and manifest in inequalities. It will deliver critical new evidence on how gendered, sexualised and generational patterns and structures of exclusion can increase urban residents' vulnerability to climate change and reduce their ability to benefit equitably from climate action and sustainable development. Focusing on two countries at high risk: Uganda and Myanmar, GENERATE will build a creative, feminist and participatory research framework that brings together child, adult and elder perspectives over time from six secondary cities. Bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers, artists, urban communities and key stakeholders from the UK, Uganda and Myanmar, GENERATE will use participatory arts-based methods grounded in ethnographic principles (interpretative, immersive, critical, feminist, reflexive) to develop new empirical, theoretical and methodological insights critical to meeting the UK's commitment and obligations to providing the evidence-base needed to fulfil the Sustainable Development Goals. The project will investigate how combining participatory arts and social science techniques together can strengthen the potential of action-based research to tackle the global challenges of gender equality and climate change.GENERATE will investigate different perspectives on the 'gender-age-urban' interface from 'above' (international, national, regional and local policymakers, institutions, governance) and 'below' (day-to-day experiences and practices of people living in urban settings). In so doing it will increase understanding of how climate change in the city is not only a gendered experience, but also a generational one; mediated by (social) age and other intersecting markers of identity including sexuality, (dis)ability, ethnicity, religion, marital status, migration and socio-economic status. It will creatively apply findings to bridge these different perspectives in order to explore more socially just ways of transforming gender inequalities in climate action; and examine how creative methodologies can challenge discriminatory norms and practices and raise the profile and participation of marginalised groups in urban climate planning and policymaking. Working in partnership with stakeholders from government ministries, (inter)national institutions, urban authorities and the third sector, GENERATE will co-devise, pilot and evaluate arts-led, contextually-relevant and evidence-informed strategies for accommodating growing urban populations more equitably and driving the social transformation necessary to achieve gender equality and broader social justice.