The Culture, Politics and Lived Experience of Health: Zines at Wellcome Collection

这项博士研究将探索如何使用极限的概念来理解Zines所做的工作，无论是在传达健康的生活经验方面，还是在支持激进主义方面，特别是当位于威康图书馆的机构背景下时。这项研究的目标是：通过调查当代健康杂志中临界性经验的描述和临界性空间的创造，包括通过与锌的社区、研究人员和图书馆员的接触来创建锌研究人员的道德准则，来制定锌的跨学科方法工具包；评估Wellcome的锌收藏；为了提供一种替代关于档案、锌收藏和图书馆如何作用于锌的叙述，探索锌可以作用于机构的方式，以及更广泛地探索锌和锌收藏/档案之间关系的新出现的迭代性质。为了实现这些目标，拟议的研究问题将包括以下内容：-如何在材料、文本、视觉、锌的叙事和社交？-在研究背景下，什么是对锌的伦理方法？-将一本锌放入Wellcome收藏的过程与产生锌的实践社区有什么关系？-将锌制作作为一种仪式--一种有限的情感技术--与新兴的数字技术有什么关系？-锌收藏如何对该机构产生作用，这与激进主义有什么关系？藏书发展、机构态度和文化以及编目对此有何影响？

This PhD study will explore how the concept of liminality can be used to understand the work zines do, both in communicating lived experience of health and in supporting activism, specifically when situated in the institutional context of the Wellcome Library. The objectives of this research are: to formulate a toolkit of interdisciplinary approaches to zines by investigating the description of liminal experiences and creation of liminal spaces in contemporary health zines, including the creation of a Zine Researcher's Code of Ethics through engagement with zine communities, researchers and librarians; to assess the Wellcome's zine collection; and to offer an alternative to narratives about the way archives, zine collections and libraries act on zines, exploring the ways that zines can act on the institution and more broadly the emerging iterative nature of the relationship between zines and zine collections/archives.To achieve these objectives the proposed research questions will include the following:- How is liminality summoned, created and communicated in the material, textual, visual, narrative and social in zines? - What is an ethical approach to zines in a research context?- How does the process of putting a zine in the Wellcome collection relate to the communities of practice from which zines emerge?- What is the relationship of zine making as a ritual - a 'liminal affective technology' - to emergent digital technologies?- How do zine collections act on the institution, and how does this relate to activism? How is this impacted by collection development, institutional attitudes and cultures, and cataloguing?