Re-storying the city: applying urban perspectives to eco-storytelling

重塑城市故事：将城市视角应用于生态故事讲述

• 批准号: 2505200
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2505200
• 关键词: Re; storying; city; applying; urban

Climate change can feel too big to resolve, because ecological harm is 'difficult to see and comprehend' when everyday life and language contain little reference to nature (Perkins and Thorns 2012, Macfarlane 2015). This thesis aims to reinspire appreciation of the landscape through oral storytelling as a form of literary expression. It builds on existing studies, which define this practice as 'eco-storytelling' (eg Coleman 2013, Nanson 2014); but through a fresh theoretical approach, it identifies limitations in their model, and explores the potential benefits of a wider perspective. Eco-storytelling studies illuminate an environmental perspective lost to urban society or language use, by promoting folktales from rural areas and the pre-industrial past. However, a combination of subcultural study and oral history theory illustrates that people did not only create folklore in the past; they continue to do so in modern life, as the intuitive creation of stories is a human reaction to existence (Eliade 1964; Peneff 1990; Macintyre [1981] 2007). By extension, urban legend and contemporary memory should contain narratives that also express the spirit of a place, and might be equally as valuable as older literature in re-engaging people with the landscape. Omitting these from eco-storytelling runs the risk of ignoring modern life, and therefore diminishing one's proactive engagement with it. This thesis will therefore research urban folklore and life stories, from which eco-storytelling performances will be created, to be staged in the urban/suburban area of Brighton & Hove. Audiences will be interviewed to evaluate impact on their environmental awareness, but will also be invited to contribute their own stories to ongoing research. Collected stories will be presented in an online interactive map of the city, publicly available as a learning resource: this significantly widens the audience and scope for impact.

气候变化可能会让人感觉太大而难以解决，因为当日常生活和语言很少提及自然时，生态危害就“很难看到和理解”（Perkins and Thorns 2012，Macfarlane 2015）。本论文旨在通过口头讲故事作为一种文学表达形式，重新激发人们对风景的欣赏。它建立在现有研究的基础上，这些研究将这种做法定义为“生态讲故事”（例如 Coleman 2013，Nanson 2014）；但通过一种全新的理论方法，它确定了模型的局限性，并探索了更广泛视角的潜在好处。生态讲故事研究通过推广农村地区和前工业化时代的民间故事，阐明了城市社会或语言使用中失去的环境视角。然而，亚文化研究和口述历史理论的结合表明，人们在过去不仅创造了民间传说，而且创造了民间传说。他们在现代生活中继续这样做，因为故事的直观创作是人类对存在的反应（Eliade 1964；Peneff 1990；Macintyre [1981] 2007）。推而广之，都市传说和当代记忆应该包含能够表达一个地方精神的叙事，并且在让人们重新融入景观方面可能与旧文学一样有价值。在生态故事讲述中忽略这些内容可能会带来忽视现代生活的风险，从而减少人们对现代生活的积极参与。因此，本论文将研究城市民俗和生活故事，并从中创作生态故事表演，在布莱顿霍夫的城市/郊区上演。观众将接受采访，以评估对其环境意识的影响，但也会被邀请为正在进行的研究贡献自己的故事。收集的故事将呈现在城市的在线互动地图中，作为学习资源公开提供：这显着扩大了受众范围和影响范围。