Decolonial World-Making in Luton: How South Asian Muslim Women Artists in Luton Create and Inhabit Multiple Worlds

卢顿的非殖民世界创造：卢顿的南亚穆斯林女性艺术家如何创造和居住多个世界

• 批准号: 2875685
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2875685
• 关键词: Decolonial; World; Making; Luton; How

Much of the scholarship on Muslim women in the arts is concerned primarily with issues of representation, namely through an exploration of negative stereotypes (Morey and Yaqin 2011) or as possessing conflicting identities in secular, majority white geographies (Ralph and Gibson 2021). While highly important work, what is often missing from the frame are the voices and experiences of Muslim women who are producing artistic work that goes beyond the need to represent and be represented, and who do not consider multiple identities across gender, race, religion and nationality as being in conflict.In a challenge to the limitations of representation and the narrative of contested identities, my research will explore the work of Luton-based South Asian diaspora artists who present rather than represent a multitude of experiences, and in so doing subvert the discourse on representation. I will explore how these artists' creative practices disrupt attempts to essentialise the experiences of British Muslim women. By focusing on place, my research will also investigate how their practices are essential to remaking Luton as a town where decolonial possibilities for living with difference can be tested and lived.Underpinning the research is Walter Mignolo's (2018) decolonial theory of the pluriverse that proposes a world in which many worlds are possible, as articulated by the indigenous Mexican Zapatista movement. This internationalist lens will be positioned in dialogue with Ruth Wilson Gilmore's articulation of place-making and the infrastructure of feeling that makes material ideologies and "actions that feelings enable or constrain" (2022: 490). The combination of these theoretical frameworks will facilitate an exploration of the ways in which Muslim women artists create and inhabit decolonial worlds within Luton in which difference exists as a fact rather than a problem to be solved.My research will be led from and by the perspectives of British South AsianMuslim women and will draw on my existing connections in the creative industries over the last 15 years. The research will focus on Muslim women living in Luton, a plural town with no single ethnicity in the majority (Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity 2013), where Muslims make up 24.6% of the total population (2011 Census), and one of the areas targeted by the UK government's Levelling Up agenda (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 2022).Luton has also featured in national media for its male dominated stories of right-wing figures such as Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate (Das 2022), and proponents of extremist Islamic ideologies (Smith and Gardham 2017). This research will therefore maintain a local focus within a larger framework of decoloniality and geopolitics informed by gender, religious and racialised identities, and the UK's relationship with a multi-generational diaspora population that has its roots in the postcolonial states of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

关于艺术界穆斯林女性的大部分学术研究主要关注代表性问题，即通过探索负面刻板印象（Morey 和 Yaqin 2011）或在世俗、白人占多数的地区拥有冲突的身份（Ralph 和 Gibson 2021）。虽然作品非常重要，但框架中经常缺少的是穆斯林妇女的声音和经验，她们创作的艺术作品超越了代表和被代表的需要，并且不考虑跨性别、种族、宗教和文化的多重身份。在对代表性的局限性和有争议的身份叙述的挑战中，我的研究将探索卢顿的南亚侨民艺术家的作品，他们呈现而不是代表多种经历，并在此过程中颠覆关于代表性的讨论。我将探讨这些艺术家的创作实践如何破坏对英国穆斯林女性经历进行本质化的尝试。通过关注地方，我的研究还将调查他们的实践对于将卢顿重塑为一个可以测试和生活差异性生活的非殖民可能性的城镇至关重要。该研究的基础是 Walter Mignolo（2018）的多元宇宙非殖民理论，该理论提出正如墨西哥本土萨帕塔运动所阐述的那样，这个世界中有许多世界都是可能的。这种国际主义视角将与露丝·威尔逊·吉尔摩（Ruth Wilson Gilmore）对场所营造和情感基础设施的阐述进行对话，这些基础设施构成了物质意识形态和“情感启用或限制的行动”（2022：490）。这些理论框架的结合将有助于探索穆斯林女性艺术家在卢顿创造和居住非殖民世界的方式，在这个世界中，差异作为一个事实而不是一个需要解决的问题而存在。我的研究将从以下视角出发并由以下视角引导英国南亚穆斯林女性，并将利用我过去 15 年在创意产业的现有人脉。该研究将重点关注生活在卢顿的穆斯林妇女，卢顿是一个没有单一种族占多数的多元城镇（种族动态中心，2013 年），穆斯林占总人口的 24.6%（2011 年人口普查），也是该地区之一是英国政府的升级议程（升级、住房和社区部 2022）的目标。卢顿还因其男性主导的汤米·罗宾逊 (Tommy Robinson) 和安德鲁·泰特 (Andrew Tate) 等右翼人物 (Das 2022)，以及极端伊斯兰意识形态的支持者 (Smith 和 Gardham 2017)。因此，这项研究将在非殖民性和地缘政治的更大框架内保持对当地的关注，该框架以性别、宗教和种族身份为基础，以及英国与植根于巴基斯坦、孟加拉国和印度等后殖民国家的多代侨民的关系。 。