Sound, spatial justice and social infrastructures: participatory listening research for public engagement and policy mobilisation

健全的空间正义和社会基础设施：公众参与和政策动员的参与式倾听研究

• 批准号: ES/Y010388/1
• 负责人: Bethan Prosser
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY010388%2F1
• 关键词: Sound; spatial; justice; social; infrastructures

Wave after wave of crises and polarising inequalities have renewed policy attention onto how local communities themselves can provide vital support, knowledge and leadership in forging solutions. The rise in deep poverty requires radical change and new ways to imagine and shape our transition out of such foundational challenges (Joseph Rowntree Trust, 2023). Brexit and the pandemic have simultaneously demonstrated stark uneven geographies and the potential power of neighbourhood resilience (Unwin, 2023). There is both a consultation need and fatigue around social infrastructures, regeneration, public health and sustainability (Wynn et al., 2022; RTPI, 2023). Creative practices present a source of transformational change that can stimulate new connections, imagine different futures and inspire action (Vervoot et al., 2023). My PhD research pioneers a creative participatory methodology that can make timely contributions to public engagement in these social policy realms, which this Fellowship aims to mobilise.I have developed a co-methodology, participatory listening research, that can be extended and applied to public engagement. Participatory listening research is a way of listening with others to our environment that generates new knowledge whilst embracing different listening experiences, practices and positionalities. Specifically, the PhD research applied this approach to gentrification, asking: What can listening with residents on the UK south coast tell us about urban seaside gentrification and displacement injustices? Gentrification is popularly contested and deeply rooted in policy-relevant spatial dynamics, offering a window onto broader societal trends (Smith, 2005). Listening creates a different way of connecting to over-rehearsed yet persistent issues of spatial injustice. By combining sound (Oliveros, 2003; Robinson, 2020) and mobile studies (Sheller, 2020) with a participatory ethos (Beebeejaun et al., 2013), listening with residents can expand our understandings of relationships to place and hyperlocal socio-environmental change.Looking to the other extreme of uneven geographies, the government's Levelling Up agenda is concerned with restoring pride in place and social infrastructures in 'left behind communities' (APPG, 2023). Defined as 'the framework of institutions and the physical spaces that support shared civic life' (ibid:6), social infrastructures can seed social capital (British Academy & Power to Change, 2023). This has refocused public engagement attention onto devolved and neighbourhood-led infrastructures, such as Labour's parallel Take Back Control (Norris, 2023). My gentrification-specific analysis can be expanded to these broader policy concerns, questioning how hyperlocal socio-environmental change resonates through: the re-engagement of underserved communities, de-gentrification, public health and sustainability agendas. Participatory listening research offers a new method for public engagement that is mutually beneficial, restorative and imaginatively-oriented. The Fellowship activities will extend, apply and deepen this methodology through creative engagement, knowledge exchange and academic dissemination. Firstly, I will add a novel dissemination method to the toolbox by co-creating interactive listening walks, geo-locative mobile soundwalks, a podcast and digital story that share the gentrification findings. These will be co-designed with local arts-based organisation, Brighton & Hove Music for Connection, in consultation with residents advisory and community groups. Secondly, using these creative outputs, a series of knowledge exchange symposia will be hosted with relevant academic, practice and policy networks. Thirdly, I will deepen the academic significance of this approach through journal publications, conference papers and funding proposals. Overall, the Fellowship will enable me to transition from the doctorate into a career as an applied and engaged social policy researcher.

一波又一波的危机和两极分化的不平等使政策重新关注当地社区本身如何在制定解决方案时提供重要的支持、知识和领导力。深度贫困的加剧需要彻底的变革和新的方式来想象和塑造我们摆脱这些基本挑战的转型（Joseph Rowntree Trust，2023）。英国脱欧和新冠疫情同时展现了明显的地理分布不均和社区复原力的潜在力量（Unwin，2023）。围绕社会基础设施、重建、公共卫生和可持续性，既存在咨询需求，也存在疲劳（Wynn 等人，2022 年；RTPI，2023 年）。创造性实践提供了转型变革的源泉，可以激发新的联系、想象不同的未来并激发行动（Vervoot 等人，2023）。我的博士研究开创了一种创造性的参与性方法，可以为这些社会政策领域的公众参与做出及时的贡献，这也是本奖学金旨在动员的。我开发了一种共同方法论，参与式倾听研究，可以扩展并应用于公众参与。参与式听力研究是一种与他人一起倾听我们的环境的方式，它可以产生新知识，同时拥抱不同的听力体验、实践和立场。具体来说，博士研究将这种方法应用于中产阶级化，并提出问题：聆听英国南海岸居民的声音可以告诉我们关于城市海滨中产阶级化和流离失所不公正的哪些信息？中产阶级化受到广泛争议，并深深植根于与政策相关的空间动态，为了解更广泛的社会趋势提供了一个窗口（Smith，2005）。倾听创造了一种不同的方式来连接过度排练但持续存在的空间不公正问题。通过将声音（Oliveros，2003；Robinson，2020）和移动研究（Sheller，2020）与参与性精神（Beebeejaun 等人，2013）相结合，倾听居民的声音可以扩大我们对地方关系和超本地社会环境变化的理解.着眼于地理不平衡的另一个极端，政府的升级议程关注的是恢复当地的自豪感和社会基础设施“留守社区”（APPG，2023）。社会基础设施被定义为“支持共享公民生活的机构框架和物理空间”（同上：6），可以培育社会资本（英国学院与变革力量，2023）。这使公众参与的注意力重新集中在权力下放和社区主导的基础设施上，例如工党的平行收回控制权（Norris，2023）。我针对中产阶级化的具体分析可以扩展到这些更广泛的政策问题，质疑超本地化的社会环境变化如何产生共鸣：服务不足的社区的重新参与、去中产阶级化、公共卫生和可持续发展议程。参与式倾听研究为公众参与提供了一种互惠互利、恢复性且富有想象力的新方法。奖学金活动将通过创造性参与、知识交流和学术传播来扩展、应用和深化这一方法。首先，我将通过共同创建交互式聆听漫步、地理位置移动声音漫步、播客和分享中产阶级化发现的数字故事，向工具箱添加一种新颖的传播方法。这些将与当地艺术组织 Brighton & Hove Music for Connection 共同设计，并与居民咨询和社区团体协商。其次，利用这些创造性成果，将与相关学术、实践和政策网络举办一系列知识交流研讨会。第三，我将通过期刊出版物、会议论文和资助提案来加深这种方法的学术意义。总的来说，该奖学金将使我能够从博士学位过渡到作为一名应用型和参与型社会政策研究员的职业生涯。