Deathscapes and Diversity in multicultural England and Wales. Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance.

多元文化英格兰和威尔士的死亡景观和多样性。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/N010205/1
负责人：
Avril Maddrell
金额：
$ 37.99万
依托单位：
University of Reading
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN010205%2F1
关键词：
Deathscapes Diversity multicultural England Wales.

项目摘要

In light of increasing ethnic and religious diversity in the UK (ONS 2012), many challenges have been raised practically and politically about living together in difference within in Britain (Keith, 2005). Much attention has focused upon Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) patterns of housing, education, employment and leisure, but migrant and established minority needs relating to cemetery, crematoria and sites of ritual and remembrance ('deathscapes') are less well understood or provided for. While death, sites of bodily disposal and practices of mourning and remembrance are universal phenomena, they are negotiated, practiced and ritualised in diverse ways within a multicultural society. Given the lack of systematic planning policy for this at national or local levels, we argue that diversity-ready deathscapes are a necessary but currently neglected aspect of an integrated multicultural society. Creating the conditions for integration is a government priority in multicultural Britain (UK Gov 2012). Government policy recognises that challenges are multifaceted and that integration comes from finding common ground in everyday life; it seeks to 'inspire and enable civil society and local areas to take action on integration issues that are important to them' (ibid., p19). Here, we propose using four case study towns in England and Wales (Huddersfield, Northampton, Swindon and Newport) in order to explore everyday deathscapes and diversity issues across a range of geographical regions and varied dynamic multicultural settings. This project will work with members of a range of minority and migrant communities to bring new insight to understanding diversity, death and remembrance in England and Wales, investigating: a) demand for culturally-specific spaces of bodily disposal and remembrance, both physical and virtual b) evidence of shared socio-cultural practice and diversity within communities of place, practice and/or beliefc) the role of lifecycle rites such as funerals and memorialisation in identity formation and sense of belonging within a multicultural society d) how local authority planners and Bereavement Service providers can respond to better meet these needs. The project will be innovative in its use of Death Cafés to meet local people and learn about death-related issues and concerns in each area before collecting data through focus groups and biographical interviews, as well as using creative practices of drawing, model-making and photo-logs to understand current provision and ideal cemetery/crematoria/memorial site design. This visual material will feature in the end of project feedback touring exhibition which will be shown in each case study town, alongside a final Death in each exhibition venue. The project will prompt public debate around the subject of minority deathscape provision in England and Wales, especially in the case study towns, as well as providing policy recommendations to local authority Planners and public and private Bereavement Service providers, which will feature in a report launched at a public workshop with participants, providers and policy-makers, including the Royal Town Planning Institute and Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management. We anticipate local and national media interest in the project findings, recommendations and its end of project touring exhibition.

鉴于英国种族和宗教多样性的增加（ONS 2012），英国内部差异性共存在实践和政治上提出了许多挑战（Keith，2005）。住房、教育、就业和休闲，但移民和既定少数群体对墓地、火葬场以及仪式和纪念场所（“死亡景观”）的需求却鲜为人知或得到满足。身体处理以及哀悼和纪念的做法是普遍现象，在多元文化社会中，它们以不同的方式进行协商、实践和仪式化，鉴于国家或地方层面缺乏系统的规划政策，我们认为，多样性就绪的死亡景观是不可行的。创造融合的条件是多元文化英国政府的首要任务（英国政府政策认识到挑战是多方面的，而融合来自于寻找共同点）。它旨在“激励并使民间社会和地方地区能够就对他们来说很重要的融合问题采取行动”（同上，第 19 页）。在这里，我们建议使用英格兰和威尔士的四个城镇进行案例研究（哈德斯菲尔德，该项目将与一系列少数民族和移民社区的成员合作，为理解多样性和死亡带来新的见解。和英格兰和威尔士的纪念，调查：a）对特定文化的身体处理和纪念空间的需求，无论是物理的还是虚拟的b）地方，实践和/或信仰社区内共享社会文化实践和多样性的证据c）角色生命周期仪式的影响，如葬礼和纪念，以形成多元文化社会的身份和归属感 d) 地方当局规划者和丧亲服务提供者如何应对，以更好地满足这些需求该项目将在死亡的使用方面进行创新。咖啡馆与当地人见面，了解每个地区与死亡相关的问题和担忧，然后通过焦点小组和传记访谈收集数据，并利用绘画、模型制作和照片日志等创意实践来了解当前的供应和理想的墓地/火葬场/纪念馆设计。该视觉材料将在每个案例研究城镇的项目反馈巡回展览的最后展示，并在每个展览场馆中引发公众关于少数群体主题的辩论。英国的死亡景观规定和威尔士，特别是在案例研究城镇，并向地方当局规划者以及公共和私人丧亲服务提供商提供政策建议，这些建议将在由参与者、提供商和政策制定者（包括皇家）参加的公共研讨会上发布的一份报告中予以重点介绍。我们预计城市规划研究所和墓地和火葬场管理研究所会对项目调查结果、建议及其结束的项目巡回展览感兴趣。