GCRF GlobalGRACE (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality)
Lead Research Organisation:
Goldsmiths University of London
Department Name: Anthropology
Abstract
In recent years there have been significant advances made internationally to raise awareness about gender inequalities. International organisations including the United Nations have also sought to ensure that the creation of more equitable futures for women and men are at the heart of global change and sustainable development. Despite those advances, gender inequalities persist in myriad forms and negatively affect the health and wellbeing of people the world over in a variety of ways, from constraining access to opportunities and resources to fostering gender based violence. We recognise the importance of both international bodies and national states and governments in agenda setting, enacting progressive legislation and adopting gender positive policies, as well as the work of those political activists who are at the forefront of pressing for these changes. However, this project is focused on the way that cultures of equality are being built and created from the ground up. We do so by investigating the creative ways that people and organisations in developing countries respond to and seek to address existing inequalities and enhance the wellbeing of people marginalised as a result of those. Our aim is disclose the ways that those everyday responses not only address harms, but also become opportunities for broader societal impact through creating new and alternative cultures of equality.
How and in what ways does the proposed research use art, curation, literature and performance to address these challenges? Our answer, following the novelist Jeanette Winterson, is that, 'Everything starts as a story we tell ourselves about ourselves'. By that Winterson means that so long as we remain capable of telling different stories about our own and other lives, there is the possibility of creating more equitable and sustainable futures for all of us. That is our understanding of what cultures of equality are about: working with and alongside people both to disclose the situations of inequality and the bodily and mental impacts of that on them and the people they care for, and to begin to tell different stories about what their lives ought and could be. As scholars working across the humanities and social sciences we think there are considerable advantages to using different arts based practice including creative writing, dance, exhibitions, music, theatre, performance or social media in this process. These different multisensory methods enable people to share things about their lives that may be too sensitive and threatening to talk about directly. They also create opportunities not just to tell different stories but also to tell them in new and different sorts of ways. Our project draws together and creates new partnerships between people and organisations from across the world in and beyond the academy. In so doing we will share expertise and learn from each other about how we can best use these arts based research practices, both to enable us to better hear and understand the stories people tell, and to find better ways of using those stories to create the conditions that underpin and will enhance the economic development and welfare of all people.
How and in what ways does the proposed research use art, curation, literature and performance to address these challenges? Our answer, following the novelist Jeanette Winterson, is that, 'Everything starts as a story we tell ourselves about ourselves'. By that Winterson means that so long as we remain capable of telling different stories about our own and other lives, there is the possibility of creating more equitable and sustainable futures for all of us. That is our understanding of what cultures of equality are about: working with and alongside people both to disclose the situations of inequality and the bodily and mental impacts of that on them and the people they care for, and to begin to tell different stories about what their lives ought and could be. As scholars working across the humanities and social sciences we think there are considerable advantages to using different arts based practice including creative writing, dance, exhibitions, music, theatre, performance or social media in this process. These different multisensory methods enable people to share things about their lives that may be too sensitive and threatening to talk about directly. They also create opportunities not just to tell different stories but also to tell them in new and different sorts of ways. Our project draws together and creates new partnerships between people and organisations from across the world in and beyond the academy. In so doing we will share expertise and learn from each other about how we can best use these arts based research practices, both to enable us to better hear and understand the stories people tell, and to find better ways of using those stories to create the conditions that underpin and will enhance the economic development and welfare of all people.
Planned Impact
This project is concerned with the development, welfare and wellbeing of people in lower income countries who are marginalised by a range of intersecting gender inequalities. Through art events and exhibitions we seek to make visible the embodied experiences of those intersecting forms of inequality and their impact on people's wellbeing, broadly conceived, and demonstrate how these situations of marginality may become sites for challenging social divisions and producing new cultures of equality.
1. Marginalised people in DAC listed lower - middle income countries
The first beneficiaries of our work will be the people who participate as co-curators in the community based art events. Participating in performative events and curating visual images will afford people opportunity to creatively convey something of the everyday and embodied impacts of intersecting inequalities on their wellbeing, reflect on the key issues or interventions that might enhance their situation and enable them to make visible the way that their own work and lives contribute to making cultures of equality otherwise.
2. Project Partners and Community Based Organisations
The participation of third sector organisations in planning the research and contributing to community based art events will both encourage, and provide models for, an expanded use of art and other performative events to stimulate critical conversations about the relation between gender and development, wellbeing and the production of cultures of equality. These may then be extended to other similar community based organisations. The events aim also to increase investment in, and participation of marginalised people, in the work of these civic organisations that provide vital welfare services for their constituents but frequently struggle to find the resources needed to continue their work.
3. Policy Makers and Advocacy Groups
The principle benefits for policy makers and advocacy groups are threefold:
a) an enhanced awareness of the relation between intersecting inequalities and diminished wellbeing;
b) better appreciation of the way that NGOs and other project partners are meeting the welfare needs of marginalised peoples and pressing for changes to address the underlying issues of inequality; and
c) an opportunity to consider whether, and if so how, official equalities discourse may be critiqued and extended through engagement and encounter with alternative visions and versions of equality.
4. Impact on arts practitioners & museums
The exhibitions and events will include curated images, sound and text from the community arts based projects. Together the events and exhibitions will encourage art practitioners to consider how and in what ways visual and performing arts might become involved in dialogues about gender, wellbeing and development. More broadly this project proposes an alternative to how anthropological museums and exhibitions deal with contemporary forms of diversity issues: usually objects from the stores, dealing with the lives of past peoples. Our project will encourage museums and galleries to consider their role in dialogues about contemporary development and to reflect on ways that they might practically become sites for the production of cultures of equality.
5. General public impact
Wide public engagement at the exhibitions, workshops, discussions held as part of this project, as well as through digital forms of dissemination and dialogue, is seen as an essential element of this project. That includes, but is not limited to, the planned Global Museum of Equalities and the GlobalGRACE open access online course. Our aim is to raise public interest in and awareness about the relations between intersecting inequalities and diminished wellbeing, and encourage better appreciation and understanding of the creative cultural practices that enable people to overcome the obstacles they face in sustaining their lives.
1. Marginalised people in DAC listed lower - middle income countries
The first beneficiaries of our work will be the people who participate as co-curators in the community based art events. Participating in performative events and curating visual images will afford people opportunity to creatively convey something of the everyday and embodied impacts of intersecting inequalities on their wellbeing, reflect on the key issues or interventions that might enhance their situation and enable them to make visible the way that their own work and lives contribute to making cultures of equality otherwise.
2. Project Partners and Community Based Organisations
The participation of third sector organisations in planning the research and contributing to community based art events will both encourage, and provide models for, an expanded use of art and other performative events to stimulate critical conversations about the relation between gender and development, wellbeing and the production of cultures of equality. These may then be extended to other similar community based organisations. The events aim also to increase investment in, and participation of marginalised people, in the work of these civic organisations that provide vital welfare services for their constituents but frequently struggle to find the resources needed to continue their work.
3. Policy Makers and Advocacy Groups
The principle benefits for policy makers and advocacy groups are threefold:
a) an enhanced awareness of the relation between intersecting inequalities and diminished wellbeing;
b) better appreciation of the way that NGOs and other project partners are meeting the welfare needs of marginalised peoples and pressing for changes to address the underlying issues of inequality; and
c) an opportunity to consider whether, and if so how, official equalities discourse may be critiqued and extended through engagement and encounter with alternative visions and versions of equality.
4. Impact on arts practitioners & museums
The exhibitions and events will include curated images, sound and text from the community arts based projects. Together the events and exhibitions will encourage art practitioners to consider how and in what ways visual and performing arts might become involved in dialogues about gender, wellbeing and development. More broadly this project proposes an alternative to how anthropological museums and exhibitions deal with contemporary forms of diversity issues: usually objects from the stores, dealing with the lives of past peoples. Our project will encourage museums and galleries to consider their role in dialogues about contemporary development and to reflect on ways that they might practically become sites for the production of cultures of equality.
5. General public impact
Wide public engagement at the exhibitions, workshops, discussions held as part of this project, as well as through digital forms of dissemination and dialogue, is seen as an essential element of this project. That includes, but is not limited to, the planned Global Museum of Equalities and the GlobalGRACE open access online course. Our aim is to raise public interest in and awareness about the relations between intersecting inequalities and diminished wellbeing, and encourage better appreciation and understanding of the creative cultural practices that enable people to overcome the obstacles they face in sustaining their lives.
Organisations
- Goldsmiths University of London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Co-funder)
- Sexworker Education & Advocacy Taskforce (Collaboration)
- Autonomous University of Chiapas (Collaboration)
- Mesoamerican Voices (Collaboration)
- SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- Institute Maria and João Aleixo (Collaboration)
- University of the Philippines Diliman (Collaboration)
- Promundo (Collaboration)
- Goldsmiths University of London (Collaboration)
- Museum Detox (Collaboration)
- University of the Witwatersrand (Collaboration)
- Theatre Arts Admin Collective (Collaboration)
- Institute of Development Affairs (Collaboration)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Collaboration)
- University of Cape Town (Collaboration)
- Museum Space Invaders (Collaboration)
- DVV-International (Collaboration)
Publications
Turner J
(2020)
Creative Community Activism in Global Contexts
in Studies on Home and Community Science
Turner J
(2020)
Theorising Cultures of Equality
Stanford Friedman S
(2020)
Theorising Cultures of Equality
Silva M
(2020)
Global South Perspectives on Stonewall after 50 Years, Part I-South by South, Trans for Trans
in Contexto Internacional
Negrón-Muntaner, F
(2019)
DECOLONIZING MONEY IN PUERTO RICO: The Valor y Cambio Project
in Revista Periferias
Negron Muntaner F
(2020)
Theorising Cultures of Equality
Moura T
(2020)
Theorising Cultures of Equality
Moura T
(2021)
Re-Thinking Gender, Artivism and Choices. Cultures of Equality Emerging From Urban Peripheries.
in Frontiers in sociology
McGuirk, S
(2021)
Motion. Stop.: Responding to Crises Compounded
in entanglements: experiments in multimodal anthropology
McGuirk S
(2020)
Rewriting Postcards: Experiments in Collaborative Transnational Curation
in STUDIES ON HOME AND COMMUNITY SCIENCE
McGuirk S
(2019)
Rewriting history: museums and 'neutrality'
McGuirk S
(2019)
NOTES ON A POSTCARD
in Allegra
Mbasalaki PK
(2022)
Investigating Cultures of Equality
Mbasalaki PK
(2022)
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric
Mbasalaki P
(2020)
Through The Lens of Modernity
in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Mbasalaki P
(2020)
Aesthetic Grammars of Social Justice: Sex Work Reimagined
in STUDIES ON HOME AND COMMUNITY SCIENCE
Matchett S
(2020)
"Butoh gives back the feeling to the people"
in Agenda
Kisubi Mbasalaki P
(2021)
Metodologia e Relações Internacionais: Debates Contemporâneos Vol. III
Jacobo, J
(2019)
THE BAKLA, THE AGI: OUR GENDERS WHICH ARE NOT ONE
in Revista Periferias
Jacobo Jaya
(2022)
Performing Cultures of Equality
Jacobo J
(2019)
BKL/Bikol Bakla: Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing
Golanska D
(2022)
Investigating Cultures of Equality
Gill A
(2020)
Na Manha Arte, gênero e resistência
| Title | 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality' |
| Description | Exchanging Cultures of Equality was installed in the Kingsway Corridor of the Richard Hoggart Building at Goldsmiths, University of London, 21 June-1 July 2018, co-curated by Siobhán McGuirk and Nirmal Puwar. The exhibition marked the launch of the Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (GlobalGRACE) project. The exhibition explored modes of exchange between Goldsmiths and collaborators from six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, and the UK, and was the first iteration of an ongoing artistic project which sees the project partners collaboratively creating a 'global museum of equalities.' The exhibition Exchanging Cultures of Equality marks the starting point of a curatorial conversation in which we consider: what does it mean to create, and to communicate "cultures of equality" transnationally? What does it mean to request, send, exchange and migrate materials, ideas and visuals in a global and historical context? We began our modality of exchange by requesting from each team six Postcards, each featuring one image and up to fifty words, and one Object labelled with a text of up to fifty words. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | As the first practical step in the GlobalGRACE project's commitment to developing a 'global museum of equalities' this exhibition had a very effective pre-planned impact on the researchers of the project, as the development of the exhibition included all researchers, the majority of whom had no previous experience in this field. Firstly through email and then face-to-face in London (where the researchers had all gathered for the first of the project's planned 'Partnership and Capability Events') the network collaborated on the preparation of the exhibition, led by Siobhán McGuirk and Nirmal Puwar from WP6. Working relationships were developed, common definitions and understandings were produced and practical skills and knowledge were shared, leaving the whole network considerably better trained and prepared for the future artistic and creative activities that all will be involved in. The public were also impacted upon, with evidence collected through creative feedback methods at the exhibition which involved visitors completing postcards, continuing a theme developed through the exhibition. |
| URL | https://exchangingculturesofequality.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/about/ |
| Title | Re/Locating Cultures of Equality: A GlobalGRACE virtual exhibition |
| Description | The closing GlobalGRACE exhibition was due to launch in June 2021 in Cape Town, before touring project partner sites. We had looked forward to co-presenting our work, produced over the four preceding years, and to exploring possible new framings as it travelled from place to place. The global coronavirus pandemic interrupted our plans, and much more besides, from early 2020. Deciding to mount a virtual exhibition invited new considerations. We did not want to lose sight of partners' distinct artistic, aesthetic and political orientations, but knew that digital renderings of objects and events cannot capture nuances of tactility or place. At the same time, we recognised that the pandemic had enforced necessarily distanced, frequently virtual, modes of living and working. New reflections intertwined with original curatorial goals, to demonstrate processes of (re)creating cultures of equality, identify parallels and affinities between disparate locales, and explore the challenges and rewards of transnational collaboration - from wires crossed to joyful synchronicities. This resulting exhibition, Re/Locating Cultures of Equality is divided into three areas: Installations are created specifically for online interaction but remain grounded in site-specific methods and modes. All are juxta- and superim-posable onto snapshots of places a physical exhibition might otherwise have been, gesturing to the (im)possibilities of relocation/reframing on- and offline. Six Films explore varied themes and multiple artforms through a single, unifying medium. Thirty Postcards reveal connecting threads between collaborators and trace transformations of material culture (and interpersonal communication) through digitisation and display. We invite you to explore and jump between projects, themes, or forms as you choose, or to delve deeper into each via our sister Online Course and Project sites. To broaden access, the site language and resolution settings are adjustable, and pages can be saved for viewing off-line. Re/Locating Cultures of Equality does not mark the 'final' GlobalGRACE exhibition. A complementary live exhibition, Dis/Locating Cultures of Equality, was held on Goldsmiths campus September-October 2021, and other GlobalGRACE exhibitions have and will continue to take place, at and beyond partner sites. Our conversations continue. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The exhibition was only launched in Feb 2022 and further impacts arising will be reported on in future years. |
| URL | https://exhibition.globalgrace.net/ |
| Title | WP1 - Covid Waarheid/Covid's Truth (South Africa) |
| Description | Through 2020 and a series of lockdowns and social distancing requirements the GlobalGRACE Sex Workers Theatre Group in Cape Town (South Africa) worked collaboratively using virtual tools to develop, script, rehearse and perform an original theatrical piece entitled Covid Waarheid/Covid's Truth, through which they explored the gendered experiences of South African sex workers during the pandemic. There were four performances in September 2020 at the Theatre Arts Theatre (Cape Town, South Africa), and as social distancing regulations meant the audience at each was limited to 15, the performance was livestreamed on Youtube, Instagram and Facebook, and then produced into a film with interviews of Sex Workers Theatre Group members, which is available through the link below. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Whilst the potential for in-person Impact was greatly reduced by Covid restrictions, the subsequent decision to both livestream and then display online the performance greatly increases the potential for impact across wider geographical areas. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpeLSEJ02M |
| Title | WP1 - Intando Yam: My Choice (Original theatrical piece performed by the Sex Workers Theatre Group, Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Description | After extensive rehearsal an original piece entitled 'Intando Yam: My Choice' had four debut performances on 1, 2 and 3 August 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Cape Town, South Africa. The performances were very well attended and the feedback was affirming and constructive. Lucy O'Connell, the Regional Key Populations Focal Point for MSF Southern Africa attended and expressed an interest in pursuing a collaboration between our project and MSF in southern Africa, and in particular, Beira Mozambique where a Sex Worker street theatre group called 'Tendene', has been formed. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | These were the first performances of an original piece which was conceived, developed, rehearsed and performed by members of the Sex Workers Theatre Group in South Africa, a theatrical group founded with GlobalGRACE funding and support as part of the Cape Town based Work Package 1. For the participants, all sex workers, this was a considerable achievement and contribution to their efforts to force greater gender equality and recognition of well-being for themselves and their community. Over three nights of performance on 1, 2 and 3 August 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Cape Town, South Africa their performances were seen by 210 people from the general public, stakeholder groups, NGOs, students and scholars, greatly raising awareness of the issues that are important to them. Lucy O'Connell, the Regional Key Populations Focal Point for MSF Southern Africa attended and expressed an interest in pursuing a collaboration between our project and MSF in southern Africa, and in particular, Beira Mozambique where a Sex Worker street theatre group called 'Tendene', has been formed. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/5pOEsDdAuiQ |
| Title | WP1 - Interactive Theatre methodology for auditions for Sex Worker Theatre Group (South Africa) |
| Description | Two 90-minute workshop auditions involved various collaborative exercises and performance-making tasks that were primarily focused on improvisation and play. A total of 24 auditioned. The auditions were facilitated by Sara Matchett, Jackie Nakazibwe and Clinton Osborne from the theatre recruitment sub-committee. An external panel of assessors made up of two theatre and performance lecturers, and one Postgraduate student, were involved as external evaluators. Phoebe Kisubi filmed/documented the process. Yaliwe Clarke and two members of the other members of the theatre recruitment sub-committee (Ruvimbo Tenga, and Mercy Remba) observed the workshop. An outline of the bespoke audition workshop plan was made available as a guiding document for future projects of this nature and will be accessible to the rest of other GlobalGRACE work packages via online platforms. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | This bespoke performance exercise was developed to be specifically tailored to the wellbeing needs and concerns of the sex worker cohort. These non-professional actors were completely untrained at this point and the team were very much aware that a traditional audition model risked placing great pressure on the cohort and would have been counterproductive in terms of developing confidence and promoting long-term engagement with the project. Over the 18 months since the auditions were held we have seen a considerable impact on the confidence and comfort of the cohort, with the groundwork laid through this Interactive Theatre methodology for auditions paying dividends also in terms of engagement and retention amongst members of the Sex Worker Theatre Group. |
| Title | WP1 - Sex Workers Theatre Group performance at launch of SWEAT's exhibition 'A likeness Embodied' at UWC (South Africa) |
| Description | On 10 October 2019 the Sex Workers Theatre Group performed a short original dramatic piece at launch of project partners SWEAT's exhibition 'A likeness Embodied' hosted by the University of the Western Cape's Department of Women and Gender Studies' |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition launch was attended by over 100 staff and students at the University of the Western Cape's library in Cape Town, South Africa. This raised the profile of Work Package 1 of Global GRACE within South African academia. |
| Title | WP1 - Sex Workers Theatre Group performance of 'Yeki' Hambe: let it go' (South Africa) |
| Description | After developing, scripting and extensive rehearsal the Sex Workers Theatre Group performed an original piece entitled 'Yeki' Hambe: let it go' on 28, 29, 30 November 2019 at the University of Cape Town's Bindery Lab Theatre in South Africa. The performances were well attended and, as with their first production, the feedback was affirming and constructive. It was evident that the theatre group had grown considerably in terms of skill and confidence, and that through the space and resourses provided by the GlobalGRACE project they were developing more effective means and methods for representing their experiences of gender inequality and negative impacts on their wellbeing. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The four performances were attended by a total of 320 audience members from the general public, university community, stakeholder groups and NGOs, a significant increase on the numbers who had attended their first performances three months earlier, and generating Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact through sex workers taking a platform through which to discuss the issues of gender oppression which they face. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/g9KzorX7vOI |
| Title | WP1 - Sex Workers Theatre Group public performance on Hanover Street, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Description | On 19 November 2019 the Sex Workers Theatre Group staged a performance of an original piece on Hanover Street, Cape Town, on the route of the Social Justice Coalition's 'Right to Protest' march, which was attended by an estimated 5000 members of the South African public. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | In performing on the route of such a large public gathering the Sex Workers Theatre Group were able to disseminate information about the gender inequalities and negative impacts on wellbeing suffered by sex workers in South Africa to a large and diverse audience of the general public. |
| Title | WP1 - WhatsApp Soapie (South Africa) |
| Description | November 2019 the Sex Workers Theatre Group in Cape Town, South Africa, launched their first WhatsApp 'Soapie'. The theatre group and GlobalGRACE team produced a performance of their original work 'Intando Yam: My Choice' which was broadcast on WhatsApp, in a popular South African format that is known as a 'Soapie'. Their work, which explored police harassment and sexual exploitation, social stigma, moral double-standards, sex worker solidarities, fantasies and play was scripted and performed by the group and then shared with other sex workers in South Africa and internationally, providing an opportunity for this discriminated group to represent their lives and stories within their community |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The Soapie was a significant means for the Sex Workers Theatre Group to internationalise their performances and seek to form networks with similar staeholder groups and associated NGOs beyond their borders. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/a-global-grace-whatsapp-soapie |
| Title | WP2 - 'Imagining Gender In/equality' exhibition in Sylhet, Bangladesh |
| Description | On 9 & 10 July 2019 at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh the WP2 team held the 'Imagining Gender In/equality' exhibition. Student film and photographic societies at SUST have been working with the GlobalGRACE to run workshops for female construction workers, and these students submitted photographs and short films produced through mobile phone technology that speak to issues of gender in/equality and aspirations for more equitable gender futures in contemporary Bangladesh. The participants produced 1 minute original short films using mobile phone technology. Photography students submitted original photography/photo stories. The films and photographs addressed contemporary issues of gender in/equality in Bangladesh through an autobiographical lens, drawing on personal experiences and aspirations for more equitable gender futures |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | For the middle-class population who predominate in the universities of Bangladesh the lives and experiences of their impoverished compatriots are seldom encountered, so this exhibition provided a valuable forum for not only dissemination of the GlobalGRACE project but also a means for female construction workers' voices to penetrate elite spaces. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/globalgrace-mobile-phone-based-filmmaking-and-photography-competiti... |
| Title | WP2 - 'Swimming Against the Tide: Women doing 'men's' work in Sylhet Bangladesh' Exhibition, Kolkata (India) |
| Description | From the 14th-18th March 2020 the Bangladesh GlobalGRACE took an exhibition of photography produced by female construction workers in Sylhet (Bangladesh) to the Gallery Gold (Kolkata, India). The exhibition focused on gender equality and working conditions from the perspective of the marginalised female construction workers and the exhibition was both open to the Indian public in general and special tours were organised for Indian female construction workers, industry representatives, associated NGOs and scholars. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | This approach proved to be a very effective means of forming international networks of female construction workers, as many Indian workers who visited the exhibition were interviewed by the research teams, and plans for international exchanges made. Unfortunately the pandemic has caused these plans to be cancelled as international travel is impossible and/or unadvisable. As of March 2021 it seems unlikely that these plans can be revived before the project end. |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QC_GhcG1cSGyruWMpfBepDmfHhcVFBrG/view |
| Title | WP2 - 'Swimming Against the Tide: Women doing 'men's' work in Sylhet Bangladesh' Virtual Exhibition |
| Description | From July 27th to August 13th 2020 the Bangladesh team mounted a virtual exhibition of ''Swimming Against the Tide: Women doing 'men's' work in Sylhet Bangladesh' using the professional exhibition platform KUNSTMATRIX. The virtual platform allowed the team to open up the photographic art produced by female construction workers within GlobalGRACE workshops to an global audience, following their in-person pre-pandemic exhibitions in Sylhet and Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Kolkata (India). This greatly increased the scope and range of the dissemination of the project's artistic outputs. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The female construction workers who produced the artworks exhibited reported considerable boosts to self-esteem and self-belief from the successive exhibition of their artwork in their hometown (Sylhet, Bangladesh), national capital (Dhaka, Bangladesh), neighbouring nation (Kolkata, India) and finally to a global audience. Two years previously not one of them had ever taken a photograph, so the opportunity to see their work, and themselves, exhibited was a life-changing experience. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/virtual-photo-exhibition-swimming-against-the-tide-women-doing-men-... |
| Title | WP2 - Bangladesh Film Archive |
| Description | A archive of films on the lives and experiences of female construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh, produced by the female construction workers and the research team. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The process of producing these artistic outputs through workshops and participatory methodologies gave rise to the female construction workers' manifesto, described elsewhere on ResearchFish. |
| URL | https://www.globalgracebd.net/short-films.html |
| Title | WP2 - Bangladesh Photo Stories |
| Description | A series of Photo Stories on the lives and experiences of female construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh, produced by the female construction workers and the research team. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The process of producing these artistic outputs through workshops and participatory methodologies gave rise to the female construction workers' manifesto, described elsewhere on ResearchFish. |
| URL | https://www.globalgracebd.net/photo-stories.html |
| Title | WP2 - Sylhet Community Festival (Bangladesh) |
| Description | On February 26th 2020 the WP2 team staged a large-scale exhibition consisting of films, photos, material culture (crafting embroidered panels of lives of women participants and their toolkits) in the form of a community festival in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Photography, short films, and handicrafts produced by and with the female construction worker cohort were exhibited in the festival, which was co-curated by research participants, researchers, NGO workers and student collaborators from the photography and film societies at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). The festival was attended by research participants and their families, as well as a significant number of members of the general public from their wider communities. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The overriding priority was to celebrate the female construction workers and make visible thier lives, experiences, and contributions to wider society, all of which tend to be marginalised and overlooked. Significant efforts were made to create a celebratory and positive environment, and the inclusion of food, films, music, dance and entertainment were very successful in drawing an audience of 500 members of the general public, thereby having a considerable Social Impact on improving perceptions of and respect for these female construction workers, something that was revealed through audience feedback. |
| Title | WP3 - Dance Performance 'NaManha' - Brazil |
| Description | On the 17th September 2020 the GlobalGRACE Brazil team presented a performance of the original dance piece 'NaManha', performed live at the Arena Dicro venue in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and livestreamed on Youtube and Instagram to an audience of 885, we presume primarily Brazilians. The performance was by the favela-based dance company 'Passinho Carioca' and emerged from the 2nd GlobalGRACE Brazil Artistic Residency, during which Passinho Carioca with the GlobalGRACE Brazil team, the community organisation 'Mulheres Ao Vento', and specially invited expert workshop leaders. Together worked in person until March 2020, and therefore mainly virtually due to Covid-19, on the research, development, choreography, rehearsal and staging of an original piece, 'NaManha', which explores positive masculinities in the face of gendered and racial inequalities. In 2021 the performance toured through cultural spaces in Rio de Janeiro, and the film was made publicly available (see link below). |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The most notable impact to date has been the development of the dance company 'Passinho Carioca'. An amateur group of Afro-Brazilian dancers from favela communities they benefited from the resources and expert advice provided during the residency to not only develop an original performance, but also develop arts management capacity. Further to this, after the performance they were supported in using the filmed performance for fund raising activities to both support the professionalisation and sustainability of the group. Further social and gender equality impacts are planned following the public launch of the documentary. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnff_geUtY |
| Title | WP3 - EXPOSIÇÃO MASCULINIDADES EM DIÁLOGO |
| Description | Exhibition from May 08- June 12, 2021 entitled 'Masculinities in Dialogue' of artworks produced by participants in the third GlobalGRACE Brazil Artistic Residency (ELÃ 2021). Both residency and exhibition were held at the art gallery Galpão Bela Maré in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Over one thousand members of the public visited the exhibition, both in person and in its online iteration (see link below). They were mostly residents of the favela communities of Maré and neighbouring favelas, and the education and outreach team at the gallery also organised and ran special tours and activities with local schools and civil society organisations. |
| URL | http://of.org.br/exposicao-masculinidades-em-dialogo/ |
| Title | WP3 - Public Exhibition 'Masculinidades NoBela' (Brazil) |
| Description | From 13th to 20th November 2019 WP3 staged the Public Exhibition 'Masculinidades NoBela' of artworks created during a two month artistic residency conducted by Dr Jimmy Turner as a research/artist with three graffiti artists who were paid as artist/researchers. They spent the two months discussing and planning and then producing an artistic exhibition of original artworks produced during the residency, all at the Bela Maré gallery in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Partners Observatório de Favelas and Instituto Maria e João Aleixo hosted and facilitated the residency and exhibition, which was attended by over 200 members of the local community and several visitors from the wider Rio de Janeiro area. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition was the first to be staged in Rio de Janeiro which used the artistic language of graffiti to focus not just on gender equality, but on masculinities specifically. Feedback revealed that this opened up discussions and awareness of gender equality to new audiences, as well as representing forms of masculinity, such as black homosexual masculinity, which are seldom positively represented. |
| Title | WP5 - English-language artistic infographic Disseminating Findings from Research into Migration, Education and Development in Chiapas, Mexico |
| Description | In December 2019 the WP5 team in Mexico produced an English-language infographic documenting and disseminating research findings into Migration, Education and Development conducted by WP5. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | It is too early to state any concrete impacts at this stage (March 2020), but the infographic has been disseminated widely amongst various stakeholder groups and we will report on impact in future reporting periods. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/infographics-of-research-into-migration-education-and-development |
| Title | WP5 - Migrant Museum Exhibition in Mare favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Description | In May-June 2019 the WP5 team travelled to Brazil to exhibit their work with the Migrant Museum (MuMi) at the Bela Maré art gallery in Rio de Janeiro. This exhibition of photographs and information from the Migrant Museum (MUMI) and a series of associated educational activities organsied and delivered in partnership between VocesMesoamericanos and IMJA were delivered free to the favela community. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition and educational activities in Mare, Rio de Janeiro were the first time that the Migrant Museum was exhibited in a Latin American country outside of Mexico, and therefore were a significant step in the internationalisation of the museum. Over 500 local residents from the favela community of Mare visited the exhibition and participated in the educational activities, marking a significant moment in the development of transnational community and solidarity building. |
| URL | http://revistaperiferias.org/en/materia/the-migrant-museum-mumi/ |
| Title | WP5 - Migrant Museum Tour of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico |
| Description | From March 2019 to January 2020 the WP5 GlobalGRACE team in Mexico toured with the Migrant Museum throughout the Highlands of Chiapas, visiting indigenous communities of Tsotsil and Tseltal peoples, holding workshops of participatory theatre and exhibitions of photography and film, and disseminating the project and artworks generated through it through exhibitions of photography and film. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The quantity and diversity of people with whom the GlobalGRACE WP5 team was able to interact as they accompanied the Migrant Museum through its tour of the Chiapas Highlands was significant, and this enabled the team to interact with a large population in a rural and largely decentralised region of southern Mexico. |
| Title | WP5 - Para Volvernos A Encontrar - To Find Us Again |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Mexico (WP5) produced in 2021 a series of postcards designed to educate the public about their awareness-raising work on human rights in migration, with outline images that people are invited to colour-in. The postcards were distributed to schools, communities, and organizations, with encouragement for people to print and colour them by hand. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | In addition to disseminating the research of the Mexico team these were designed to draw upon the therapeutic value of artistic activities such as colouring in, inviting the public to participate in the artistic process of creation. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/para-volvernos-a-encontrar |
| Title | WP6 - British Museum Detour: Imperialism and Other Legacies (Catherine Hahn) |
| Description | GlobalGRACE researcher produced an illustrated video 'detour' of the British Museum, drawing on the research conducted by WP6 and following a tour of the museum by all GlobalGRACE researchers from Brazil, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, the Philippines and the UK in 2018. The film was published to the GlobalGRACE website, Youtube and will form part of the GlobalGRACE Online Course output, to be realised in 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The primary Impact of this film will be connected to the GlobalGRACE Online Course, to be launched in 2021. |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/british-museum-detour-imperialism-and-other-legacies |
| Title | WP6 - Dis/locating Cultures of Equality: A GlobalGRACE exhibition |
| Description | A collaborative artistic exhibition disseminating the research conducted by all GlobalGRACE partners in an artistic format. The exhibition was staged and curated by Dr Siobhan McGuirk and was designed as a Covid-secure outdoor exhibition in the 'College Green' space on the Goldsmiths campus in London. The exhibition was accompanied by a soundscape which was accessed by QR codes and GPS technology via the smartphones of visitors. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The exhibition was seen by thousands of Goldsmiths students and staff as well as visitors and the general public from outside the Goldsmiths community. A series of guided tours and talks accompanied the exhibition, and increasing the dissemination of GlobalGRACE research findings to thousands of people. |
| Description | The GlobalGRACE Project tackled key challenges in Human Rights, Good Governance and Social Justice, especially reducing 'poverty and inequality, including gender inequalities', being based within two of the four of the UK's Official Development Assistance (ODA) priorities, generating positive Social Impact and Gender Equality. We recognise the importance of both international bodies and national governments in effecting such change, but GlobalGRACE is concerned with investigating the creative ways that people and organisations respond to and address intersectional gender inequalities and strengthen people's wellbeing. We sought to learn from, share and strengthen people's creative and artistic practices as a means to understand their experiences of inequality, challenge the systems of privilege that create inequality and diminish wellbeing, and imagine alternative and more equitable ways of living together. Our key achievements in meeting these objectives were: 1. The establishment of networks and partnerships. Meaningful research and social impact can only be generated through engaging and mobilising networks which include a representative range of people and groups, particularly when seeking to investigate existing inequalities and promote intersectional gender equality. We created a new and expansive network of feminist, queer and gender studies researchers which included established and early career researchers based in Universities, NGOs and civil society organisations in and beyond the DAC-listed territories in which our core partners are based, namely Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, and South Africa, as well as in the UK. We collectively agreed a system of governance, including principles of best practice, to ensure equitable and effective partnerships between differently positioned people and organisations within and outside academia. Our research was predominately led by the Global South, where most of our researchers are based, and the project facilitated South-South, and South-North mobility and collaboration leading to significant outputs. Eschewing established practices of basing the majority of the research team in UK Universities, who then travel to conduct research 'in the field', means that we are able to enhance our social impact in the societies of the DAC-listed countries where our partners live and work, and create localised economic impact and capacity strengthening through increased resource transfers and expenditures in universities and NGOs in DAC-listed countries. 2. Throughout the project lifespan we developed and deployed new and innovative multi-modal and multi-sensory methods and collaborative practices which drew from the arts and social sciences to investigate and provide meaningful accounts of people's experiences of intersecting inequalities, making clear contributions to gender equality and realising impacts on wellbeing. To go beyond systems of extractive knowledge production we avoided ready-made sets of methods that are neatly packaged and rigidly applied, thereby maximising social impact through tailoring our approach to the situations within and across the DAC-listed countries where we worked and ensuring our methods were responsive to and directed by people and the communities of practice we work with and alongside. 3. The working principles and methodological approach described above shaped and enabled the findings and achievements across all of our respective work packages and are described in summary form below: WP1. The focus of this work package was on the research, training and establishment of the South African Sex Workers Theatre Group (SWTG). The SWTG was developed with, by and for sex workers who are some of the most marginalized and stigmatized people in South Africa. To address this neglect, sex workers have developed their own initiatives, resources and networks to improve their lives and to challenge gendered inequalities and injustices. Working with and alongside of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task force (SWEAT), the establishment of the SWTG is based on holistic engagement with sex workers and extends existing initiatives in order to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of sex workers who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Our research disclosed how spaces of labour, the devaluing of women's work, violence against women, the taboos surrounding sex work and the effects of discriminatory laws produce inequality and injustice in sex worker's lives and affect their wellbeing, as well as social and economic opportunities. Arts-based practice and performance not only builds on and enlivens forms of creative political activism that seek to redress and remedy those injustices but also fundamentally responds to and addresses embodied forms of personal trauma and creates new forms of care for self and others. It also calls attention to ethical dilemmas and limitations of interventions that emerge within new and continuing crisis including the necessity of responding sensitively and flexibly to the uncertainties of challenging situations and experiences of COVID in particular. WP 2. The focus of this work package was on investigating and telling the untold story of female construction workers in Bangladesh through both ethnographic research and participatory photography projects that enabled women to shape and craft their own visual representations and through that develop, for the first time, their own workers' manifesto of rights. Our research disclosed the way that gendered norms and patriarchal codes proscribe women's involvement in masculinised labour. Conventionally when women's work in construction is visible it is often derided as dirty, unskilled and the object of scorn or pity. As our research evidenced, the women who work on these construction sites tend to lack formal education and the more highly valued forms of marketable skills, and as many of them are lone parents or do not have male household members who are able or willing to support them financially, they become construction labourers as a strategic survival strategy to support themselves and their children. These women also challenge normative gender codes in Bangladesh pertaining to women's appropriate roles, employment and public visibility. As Tanzina Choudhury and Suzanne Clisby argued in one academic output arising from the project, '[f]emale construction workers challenge dominant ideas about women's bodily strength and skills: digging foundations, breaking rocks, carrying heavy loads. They are highly visible performers of masculinised labour in the public arena and their bodies blur the borders of normative constructions of appropriate femininity and masculinity. They stand at the front line of patriarchy, 'queering the margins' of male space, and the radical potential of these 'border bodies' must be recognised' (Choudhury and Clisby, 2020, p.168). However, through their construction labour, these women can experience significant health harms, poor mental wellbeing, labour exploitation, gender-based discrimination and sexual abuse. Producing and controlling images of and about themselves enables new modes of self-representation, creates possibilities to imagine alternative futures and assert claims for more equitable working relationships. The manifesto they have built like the photographs they have taken and shared and that now circulate throughout Bangladesh and beyond are not only moments of 'decolonial joy' (Negron Muntaner, 2020) but also material foundations and possible platforms for further change and action. WP3. This work package investigated the intersectional gender dynamic of peripheral artistic and cultural practices. It demonstrated the importance of different artistic practices and multiple aesthetic languages both for disclosing people's embodied experiences of and confrontation with intersectional gender inequalities and for enabling experiments in reconceptualising gender relations and remaking masculinities in particular. Together, researchers, artists and activists developed reflections about the way young peripheral women and men dispute the hegemonic models of masculinity and the fetishizing looks that are directed to them. On the one hand, the collaborative and interdisciplinary practice made visible the daily dynamics of intersectional hierarchies inscribed in the city of Rio de Janeiro and that structure the precariousness of the city peripheries where the artistic residencies took place. On the other hand, they also challenge the colonial narrative of lack foregrounding multiple knowledges and everyday (re)invention of life, construction of empathy and spaces of peace amidst ongoing forms of racialised violence. As articulated within and through the 'Free school of Art' a hybrid digital residency programme that took place at Galpão Bela Maré in Rio de Janeiro throughout 2020-2021 in response to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, art practice became a generator of formative spaces and languages centred on the democratization of knowledge, the reconstruction of collective memory and site of social and political transformation. WP4. This work package focused on the development and convening of the first national and community-based LGBTQ+ writers' workshops and virtual artistic residency programmes in the Philippines. In doing so the projected developed a platform for enabling and encouraging queer artists and writers amidst a pandemic and within a general situation where queer people's subjectivities and identifications are frequently abjected and elided. On the one hand, the workshops have produced both an archive of new LGBTQ+ art and literature as well as pedagogical resources to support the teaching of queer art and literature in schools and colleges in the Philippines. On the other hand, the artistic and creative artefacts and the embodied, textual and performative knowledge produced within and arising from those workshops disclose multiple stories about contemporary aspirations, imaginings and subjectivities of variously positioned 'queer' Filipinos and about the ongoing decolonial recovery of forms of desire and identification, such as kabaklaan, a contemporary and complex 'sexual' tradition that exceeds, because it also precedes, sexological concepts and the hetoro and homonormativities that the colonial has produced. More broadly, the work, workshops and residency programme challenges both the translatability of queerness and 'the normativity of "queer art" itself. WP5. This work package focused on collaborative and participatory forms of research and artistic practice, including film, theatre and an itinerant exhibition space, the museum of migration, working with and alongside Indigenous migrant communities in Chiapas State. Their research reveals the persistent discrimination and marginalisation of both indigenous people and migrant workers, as well as appropriation of their cultural inheritance and creative labour: systems and processes that are both shaped by persistent gender and racialized stereotypes and have a considerable gendered impact on the life experiences and experiences of mobility for indigenous women and men. In response they designed and ran residential schools for both young Indigenous women and men which have engaged with Indigenous understandings of gender and made contributions to Gender Equality through equipping these young people with resources to champion gender equality both in their communities and when they migrate to work in other social settings in Mexico and the USA. WP6. This work package focused on investigating the experience of women and people of colour working in museums of South Africa and the UK. Drawing on extended interviews as well as other forms of collaborative and creative engagement, the research discloses the way that women organise and strategize, how leadership in these institutions are changing, and being challenged with respect to gender and race, and the way that resilience and solidarity is enacted in contradictory situations. On the one hand, women museum workers in both South Africa and the UK in different ways continue to be in, in Puwar's terms, 'space invaders'. On the other hand, women in museums are creating and demonstrating different ways of working that are able to shift and abrogate men's power and challenge the persistent power of whiteness that define the somatic norm. Though broadly emancipatory there remain tensions and contradictions and important differences in the experiences of women in museums in South Africa and the UK including, for example, the ways that women's work was changed and altered in response to Covid 19. |
| Exploitation Route | As described in our pathways to impact statement, and further detailed in our narrative impact statement below, our research outcomes will be taken forward through: 1. Drawing on the examples of good practice for raising awareness among diverse publics about contributions to gender equality and diminished wellbeing we developed through the wide range of community-based art events and exhibitions which our team co-created and delivered. These are a key means of generating social impact, for example: through the Bangladesh team's successful community festival which showcased participants' film and photography; the Brazil team's work with favela-based artists which led to community education interventions alongside exhibitions and dance performances within the favela; the Mexico team's work with the mobile Migrant Museum that works with isolated and marginalised parts of rural society to respond to racialised forms of exclusion and envision more equitable futures for young women and men; and the South African team's literal placement of sex workers centre stage performing dramatic pieces that they themselves wrote, rehearsed, staged and performed, and leading to the impact legacy of the creation of the participant-led Sex Workers' Theatre Group. On a national scale the Philippines team's use of literary artworks produced by young LGBTQ writers in their workshops to produce a Gender and LGBTQ sensitive and inclusive curriculum with recorded webinars offered to teachers across the country has considerable promise as a model in other settings. Globally the GlobalGRACE Online Course, Experiments in Cultures of Equality - https://course.globalgrace.net - distils much of the best practice developed by teams into free and accessible resources and examples of artistic and creative methods developed to support experiments in decolonising gender inequalities. to which anyone with access to the internet can draw upon. 2. Encouraging art practitioners and curators to consider ways that visual and performing arts can promote dialogues about gender equality, wellbeing and development through a series of major public exhibitions, including exhibitions in London in 2018 and 2021, public performances of four original theatrical pieces in South Africa, with one also being available online; two exhibitions and one dance performance in Brazil in 2019, 2020, and 2021 that have led to a series of documentary films; exhibitions of female construction workers' photography in Bangladesh, India and online; a series of films produced by Indigenous communities in Mexico; and two volumes of original fiction and poetry produced by young LGBTQ writers in the Philippines, as well as the digital exhibition 'Entry Level' curated by Patrick Flores and Carlos Quijon Jr arising from the first virtual LGBTQIA+ artistic residency programme in the Philippines. The artistic outputs from across the projects have now been curated into our digital exhibition space, 'Re/Locating Cultures of Equality' - https://exhibition.globalgrace.net/ - that was launched alongside of the online course in February 2022. Together these events and exhibitions continue to create social impact through engaging not only publics but also influential artists, creators, writers and filmmakers beyond the GlobalGRACE Project. 3. Inspiring interdisciplinary and creative approaches to development among postgraduates and ECRs and enhancing the capacity of project partners and community-based organisations through an annual series of partnership and capability events in London, 2018, Rio, 2019, and virtually in 2020 and 2021, due to Covid. These events and the teaching conducted by GlobalGRACE researchers in their own and each other's institutions, participation in international conferences and webinar series, as well as in settings such as the UNESCO-supported Gender Equality Studies & Training Programme in Iceland, has enabled us to carry our findings to wide audiences of civil society practitioners, students and scholars. To this we added in 2022 the GlobalGRACE Online Course and Virtual Exhibition, described above, both of which were designed to be applied in (and beyond) the classroom setting for teaching on gender equality. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/ |
| Description | The GlobalGRACE research programme aimed throughout to generate impacts focused broadly on enhancing quality of life, health and creative output, addressing challenges in terms of Human Rights, Good Governance and Social Justice', especially reducing 'poverty and inequality, including gender inequalities', and contribute to UN SDGs 3 (Wellbeing) and 5 (Gender Equality). The following summarises the key achievements and impacts from each of our 6 Work Packages in terms of the primary beneficiaries we described in our original impact plan: a. People in DAC listed countries who are our participants and co-producers of research. b. Project partners and community-based organisations c. Arts practitioners & museums d. Policy makers and advocacy groups WP1 South Africa: a) We established the first theatre group run by and for sex workers in South Africa, the Sex Workers Theatre Group, South Africa (SWTG). They wrote, staged and performed original theatre productions which directly made a contribution to Gender Equality and SDG5, and enhanced significantly the participants' creative output and provided a platform for women and men undertaking sex work to address gender-based violence and inequalities. Through project partners SWEAT, SWTG is now an ongoing and operational theatre group who have been enabled to bid for and secure support moving ahead. b) We enhanced the interdisciplinary research capacity of project partners UCT & SWEAT through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training events. Impacts on the wellbeing of the sex worker participants and researchers from UCT and SWEAT have also been realised through art therapy workshops, in line with our aim to impact upon SDG3. This support continued via digital outreach throughout the pandemic. c) Collaborations were formed with theatres in Cape Town which have not only provided space and resources for workshops and rehearsals, but also provided a stage on which the Sex Workers' Theatre Group can perform which is part of existing theatrical circuits with established audiences, thereby increasing the Social Impact of the contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5 made by the group. d) Through production, performance and audience engagement, the Sex Workers' Theatre Group developed its capacity for advocacy and networking for the gendered rights of sex workers. WP2 Bangladesh: a) Training in participatory film making and photography was provided for a group of female construction workers, leading to multiple exhibitions and the development of both a female construction workers rights manifesto and subsequently a women workers' rights manifesto co-created by over 1000 socio-economically marginalised women in Sylhet. Through these Manifestos they raised awareness of the gender discrimination they confront, and made contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5. b) We enhanced the interdisciplinary research capacity of project partners SUST and IDEA especially in undertaking visual and participatory research through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training events delivered by national and international experts and practitioners. c) We enhanced the creative outputs and curatorial practices of film and photography societies at our partner University, building career development pathways for participants which will bring Economic Impact through the increased professionalisation of the audiovisual sector. d) The women construction workers who participated in the project have formed an advocacy network for women in the construction sector, creating and disseminating a manifesto for change in Bangladesh to promote safer and more equitable working conditions in the construction sector and multiple social media networks focused on economic and livelihood diversification. This thereby contributed to the generation of greater wellbeing (SGD3) and positive Economic Impact within their impoverished communities. e) Following the outbreak of the pandemic and the reduction in employment opportunities for female construction workers, the research team worked with participants to develop new livelihood strategies and establish new social networks and media platforms to mobilise women across class divides. This has resulted in the creation of a new social media-based women's network and social enterprise called Nityo Sokha (Everyday Companion) ????? ??? - Nityo Sokha - Home | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/nityosokha/?fref=mentions&__xts__[0]=68.ARD0gPb4CKKHJnmc7_xD-qDR1Hr1dnorzL-Ivl8OXN-fLYGze-cmAJrHBMe5UdxVbDadF_FA0IKHARDTDaK6MuWQmAxajHuBtHOCVeHi9eT1u4y0wrW6HWBjoCS7IH_r-MEL9qbNjHJ3luhSGtUpHg2wPV3qATPYX8SnDjARps4FGM3ZREZGItuNkFNGXyJkMev1mZr6yj-a1r0YGLT9X9L3mpiJ0nXoBlthbAJLYx3ViQWGxcehrDHRGMamFyNFhkG_ZCZzYlngMxaWRZECT6xIr3FDYuouytIVKZiLtMaf94stkeU]. The Nityo Sokha enterprise co-created in collaboration with women participants by the WP2 team, and now in 2022 having grown to involve almost 2000 women, are offering several products and services to customers, including an innovative project supporting small enterprises with 'delivery women' - itself a radical departure from normative gender roles in Bangladesh - to deliver their products at the customers' doorsteps. Beyond 2022 Nityo Sokha will continue as a cooperative venture owned and run by women participants bringing together both socio-economically marginalised and less economically vulnerable women in Sylhet, supporting women's small business enterprise and entrepreneurship. WP3 Brazil: a) Through community courses and educational activities linked to exhibitions and performances in the favela community of Maré in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) participant feedback revealed increased knowledge about and appreciation of the potential for positive masculinities to improve Gender and Racial Equality (SDG5). b) We enhanced the interdisciplinary research capacity of project partners PUC-RIO, Promundo and IMJA through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training events. In particular, project partners IMJA benefitted from knowledge exchange with Mexican NGO partners Voces Mesoamericanas during reciprocal visits. These exchanges facilitated transfer of knowledge about strategies for generating Social Impact through NGO work in marginalised communities, focused particularly on making contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5. c) Through a series of three artistic residencies running from 2019-2021 we provided the opportunity and resources for artists to contribute to Gender Equality and SDG5, focusing especially on masculinity, art and potential from the peripheries, alongside academic and NGO researchers, impacting positively on their artistic practices and networks, and generating Social Impact through public exhibitions and performances: the insights arising from these residencies and workshops have led to the open access publication in Portuguese, Spanish and English. d) Of particular note is work and support for the dance company Passinho Carioca Company, including facilitation of their application for micro-entrepreneur status as autonomous artists and partnership and capability networks created with other dance companies in Maré, Rio de Janeiro (i.e Mulheres ao Vento) through a peer mentorship approach with Passinho Carioca company e) Alongside the series of artistic residencies the team ran workshops for and with 'multiplicators' who occupy key positions in advocacy networks in Rio's favelas. WP4 Philippines: a) We held two national and two community level writing workshops for LGBTQ people in the Philippines, and following the outbreak of the pandemic a digital artist in residency programme. These enhanced participant well-being (SDG3), affirmed their gender and sexual identities and enriched their creative outputs through the publication of two volumes of their literary work, a digital exhibition and archive, making a significant local, regional and national contribution to Gender Equality and SDG5. b) We enhanced the interdisciplinary research capacity of project partners UP and YMCA, especially in combining literary, artistic and social science research through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training events. c) We supported the founding of a new YMCA with a special emphasis on promoting LGBTQ rights and contributing to Gender Equality and SDG5 within the wider organisation and society. d) We developed a resource and ran two teacher training webinars focused especially on high school and college educators to combine Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) awareness training with literature and creative writing. This resource which is available as both open access written material and recorded webinars has already impacted significantly on the 200 participants and has potential for generating significant Social Impact relevant to SDG3 & 5 in the years ahead. WP5 Mexico: a) We trained indigenous young people in audiovisual methods and creative pubic engagement and this has supported skills development as well as improved wellbeing and self-esteem (SDG3). b) We enhanced the interdisciplinary research capacity of project researchers at UNACH and Voces Mesoamericanas through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training events, and intensive writing retreats which focused on generating SOCIAL IMPACT. c) We identified a need for further research on masculinity and have developed a new curriculum designed for working with indigenous men, making a unique contribution to Gender Equality and SDG5. d) The team, led by Voces Mesoamericanos, participated extensively in networks and partnerships of NGOs focused on indigenous and migrants' rights, and collectively lobbied national and local authorities advocating for these groups. WP6 UK and South Africa: a) We enhanced interdisciplinary research capacity across all project partners, including UK researchers based at Goldsmiths, through mentoring, mobilities, partnership and training focused especially on curation and exhibition making and using creative methods to generate Social Impact and contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5 through public engagement. b) We led development of the Virtual Exhibition and Online Course outputs which focus on Gender Equality and SDG5 from DAC-listed country perspectives. c) Through research and network formation and strengthening activities we have developed linkages between UK and South Africa-based museums and museum professionals, focusing particularly on racial justice and contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5. d) Through the production of podcasts with professional advocacy networks of women and people of colour working in the UK museum sector we have disseminated best practices of contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5 within the sector. GENDER EQUALITY SUMMARY 1) Our research team included women, men, and Transgender and Queer people, the majority being Global South researchers and many of whom are people of colour, with women holding most positions within the Executive Committee, the primary management and governance body of the project. The body of research participants and project collaborators similarly covers the whole range of gendered and sexual identities, mirroring the broad research focus on Gender Equality and SDG5. 2) Each Work Package has a specific demographic focus for their research. We worked to generate impact with and for each of the groups below, understood through an intersectional lens that attends to social differences and divisions of age, class, dis/ability, 'race', ethnicity and religion, as well as gender and sexuality: WP1: Female, Male, Transgender and Queer sex workers; WP2: Female Construction Workers and a wider group of socio-economically marginalised women; WP3: Women and men who explore masculinity and gender equality through artistic practices; WP4: LGBTQIA+ young people WP5: Young Indigenous women and men WP6: Women and People of Colour working in the museums sector in the UK and South Africa. 3) The overarching focus of all project activities was to make contributions to Gender Equality and SDG5 through examining both gender inequality and the ways in which artistic and creative practice have, are, and can promote and generate greater gender equality, and ameliorate the negative impacts on wellbeing that gender inequality causes (SDG3). Given that women and LGBTQ communities are the most negatively impacted by gender inequality it follows that many of our participants were drawn from these groups, and that most impact activities were so directed. However, due to our recognition that gender inequality also impinges upon men, and that considering masculinity is an essential factor in generating gender equality, one of our work packages worked primarily on the generation of positive masculinities (WP3), and the other work packages have remained alert to the need to engage men. This led, for example, to WP5 developing workshops and schools which work with indigenous young men on developing equality positive masculinities, following their early research revealing that such interventions were both necessary and considered desirable by indigenous men. 4) As all researchers and NGOs working on the project have considerable experience in working on gender equality scholarship and advocacy we were attuned from the beginning to the risks of unintended negative consequences. These potential risks have been included in all stages of planning, development, execution and evaluation, and this has enabled us to attend to and seek to redress any potential unintended consequences of GlobalGRACE activities for researchers or participants. It has also enabled as to be proactive in mitigating such risks by, for example: a) Introducing specialised and focused wellbeing workshops and resources for researchers and participants who indicated that the focus on gendered inequality risked prejudicing their wellbeing, for example in Bangladesh and South Africa; b) Adding activities focusing on men and masculinities to the activities of WP5 in Mexico to ensure the inclusion and address the needs and concerns of indigenous men, as explained above. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Experiments in Cultures of Equality: A GlobalGRACE online course |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The online course has only recently been launched and will be followed by publication in Portuguese, Spanish and Bengali. The publication of the course has already had reported impact on other researchers making use of the teaching and resource material both in HEI and in work with partner organisations outside of academia. |
| URL | https://course.globalgrace.net/ |
| Description | Teacher Training Webinars for Teaching Filipino Queer Literature |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The initial teacher training workshop included 50 participants drawn from across the Philippines. The impacts of this will continue to grow over the year and there is no immediate quantitative information of the wider benefits. However, the qualitative feedback from participants at the workshop indicate the importance of the teacher training in a) up-skilling educators for teaching queer literature; b) fostering gender awareness and safe teaching spaces for queer young people and c) building networks of progressive educators and allies in secondary and tertiary education. |
| URL | https://www.pinoylgbtq.com/seminar-teaching-philippine-queer-lit |
| Description | United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Two modules were offered by GlobalGRACE researchers Suzanne Clisby and Phoebe Mbasalaki for the United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST), hosted by the University of Iceland, in February 2020. This course was attended by over 20 civil servants and policy makers from a wide range of DAC-listed countries, with particularly strong attendance from sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive training was provided in Gender Equality and intersecting inequalities in broad social contexts and International Development settings. They used the work of GlobalGRACE to build the gender equality knowledge, awareness and capacity of these participants to enable them to mainstream gender equality knowledge and practices within their institutions. |
| Description | WP2 - Female Construction Workers' Manifesto (Launch at 'Launching the Manifesto: Female Construction Workers Laying the Foundations for Equality and Justice in Bangladesh' exhibition on 13-15 January 2020 of 14-point manifesto developed by the Female Construction Workers cohort, directed at and circulated to policy-makers and public sector contractors of construction services) |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/launching-the-female-construction-workers-manifesto |
| Description | WP5 - Involvement in the development of the 'Overcoming Fear: Creating a Trinational Workers Toolkit' for workers in Mexico, USA and Canada |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Members of the WP5 team from Mexico travelled to Erie, Pennsylvania (USA) to participate in the development of the 'Overcoming Fear: Creating a Trinational Workers Toolkit' for workers in Mexico, USA and Canada, a trades union-led initiative with the goal of bringing togethery unions and progressive activists from the USA, Mexico and Canada to share their local experiences and see what international connections could be drawn out. This will lead towards creating a foundation of a toolkit to help progressives in each country provide a proactive message on migration, trade, climate, and gender. |
| URL | http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/overcoming-fear-creating-a-trinational-workers-toolkit/ |
| Description | Programa Institucional de Internacionalização - CAPES - PrInt |
| Amount | R$ 14,970 (BRL) |
| Organisation | Government of Brazil |
| Department | Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Training (CAPES) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | Programa Institucional de Internacionalização - CAPES - PrInt |
| Amount | R$ 4,590 (BRL) |
| Organisation | Government of Brazil |
| Department | Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Training (CAPES) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Scientific Initiation Scholarship (for one undergraduate student from PUC-Rio working on art and masculinities) |
| Amount | R$ 5,400 (BRL) |
| Organisation | Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Scientific Initiation Scholarship (for one undergraduate student from PUC-Rio working on art and masculinities) |
| Amount | R$ 9,600 (BRL) |
| Organisation | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | GCRF GlobalGRACE / Governing Intimacies (Mellon Foundation) Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Department | Sociology Department |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussions of ways in which the GCRF GlobalGRACE Project and Mellon Foundation-funded 'Governing Intimacies' Project could collaborate began in June 2018 when the PI of Governing Intimacies, Professor Srila Roy (Sociology Department, University of the Witwatersrand) attended the GlobalGRACE launch event in London as both an 'International Project Evaluator' for the project and discussant at the launch conference. The first concrete intellectual collaboration came later in 2020, when GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill participated as a speaker in the webinar series developed by "Governing Intimacies", speaking in a session about "Building Epistemic Infrastructures in the Global South", in line with GlobalGRACE's objectives of increasing research capacity in DAC-listed countries through South-South collaboration and knowledge exchanges which are unmediated by former colonial powers. We are considering 2020 to be the year that the intellectual collaboration between the two projects began, whilst recognising that the roots of this collaboration lie further back in time. We are now planning for greater and continued collaborations in 2021. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Mellon Foundation-funded 'Governing Intimacies' Project is led by Professor Srila Roy (Sociology Department), who has served as one of two 'International Project Evaluators' for the GlobalGRACE Project since 2018. This role is not directly tied to the 'Governing Intimacies' project, but the intellectual collaboration between GlobalGRACE and Governing Intimacies can be traced to the conversations, debates, and critical engagements engendered by her work as an evaluator. |
| Impact | The first output is the aforementioned participation of GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill as a speaker in the webinar series developed by "Governing Intimacies", speaking in a session about "Building Epistemic Infrastructures in the Global South". This was multidisciplinary, spanning Gender Studies, Sociology, History, and International Relations, thus impacting on the often overly disciplinary culture of the Academy. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Autonomous University of Chiapas |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Department | Department of Anthropology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Department | Department of Sociology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Institute Maria and João Aleixo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Institute of Development Affairs |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Mesoamerican Voices |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Promundo |
| Department | Brazil Office |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Sexworker Education & Advocacy Taskforce |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| Department | Department of Sociology |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Partnership Network |
| Organisation | University of the Philippines Diliman |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GlobalGRACE project is led by a team of researchers based in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, leading departments that are focused on contemporary issues, the use of innovative methods and the cultivation of the sociological and anthropological imagination. We assembled the above listed network of partner institutions through preparing the bid, and since the commencement of the project on 1st October 2017 have led GlobalGRACE. The following academic staff are funded participants in the project: - Suzanne Clisby, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Reader in Sociology - Mark Johnson, Reader in Anthropology & Co-Director of GlobalGRACE - Siobhán McGuirk, Early Career Researcher, GlobalGRACE - Nirmal Puwar, Reader in Sociology - Jimmy Turner, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, GlobalGRACE In addition Goldsmiths are leading Work Package 6 (Space Invading: Curatorial Practice and the Making of a Global Museum of Equality), which focuses on how gender and intersecting differences impact on women and post-colonial lives in the UK and South Africa in the organisational spaces of museums and galleries. Attention will be drawn to how impact occurs on everyday working practices and to the different methods deployed to exert changes in organisations. These ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Survey the field of gender and racialised relations in Museums in the UK and South Africa, with a specific interest in leadership and change, generate a finely tuned understanding of the inter-weaving of organisational in/equalities and lend a comparative frame to understandings of museums. 2. To build capacity within the sector for sharing and analysing experiences of gender and 'race' amongst professionals in the museums and galleries sector through academic facilitation and partnership. 3. To collate creative curatorial practices of space invading in both the UK and South Africa. Gathering a collection of practices which speak to different methods in which gender and intersecting differences can be highlighted in institutions. 4. To explore non-hierarchical collaborative methods for building transnational exhibitions on global equalities with attention to North-South, as well as South-South, inequalities within the research team. 5. To produce a mobile and revolving physical and virtual resource for a Global Museum of Equality, with consideration to scale, audience and ethics |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute and Department of Drama are leading Work Package One (Working Women: Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality with and by sex workers in South Africa), working with NGO partner the Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Trust. WP 1 uses participatory theatre to engage with and learn from existing initiatives among sex workers to challenge systems of sexual violence and raise the aspirations and self-confidence of women who undertake sex work in order to sustain themselves and others. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist, queer and critical race researchers in the package. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, sex workers, and the public in South Africa with regards to sex work, gendered inequalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein sex workers feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use participatory theatre, narrative and audio-visual methods to elicit the relationships between sex workers' everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies through audio-visual representations, narratives and participatory theatre. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are leading Work Package Two (Women Working in Men's Worlds: Visualising female construction workers and the quest for more equitable futures in Sylhet, Bangladesh), working with NGO the Institute of Development Affairs. WP 2 explores how collaborative film and photography led and curated by a group of female construction workers can be used to generate public awareness and make visible the intersecting inequalities they face and that shape their everyday struggles for survival. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist researchers. 2. To create collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, female construction workers, and publics in Bangladesh with regards to women's work and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein female construction workers feel safe and enabled to convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use film making, photography and material curation and related training with, for and led by participants to elicit artistic representations of gendered precarity, struggles and achievements. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies in support of women's aspirations and in producing new public cultures of equality. PUC-Rio are leading Work Package 3 (Decolonizing Knowledge and Doing Masculinity 'Otherwise': Street art, dance and the production of cultures of equality in a Brazilian favela), working with NGO partners Promundo and IMJA. WP 3 focuses on the production of non-violent masculinities in Brazil's urban peripheries. It aims to promote cultures of equality through the decolonization of knowledge that challenges representations of the favela as a space of lack and violence and demonstrates the power and potentiality of the favela to create gender positive futures. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of researchers in the package by learning from producers of knowledge regarding non-violent masculinities from Brazil's urban peripheries. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, and the public in Brazil with regards to masculinity, violence, gendered (in)equalities and wellbeing. 3. To create a research space wherein people marginalised by gender, race, sexuality, and class feel safe and enabled to explore their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and their impacts on wellbeing. 4. To learn from and extend critically modes of research and knowledge production outside traditional academic realms, most specifically street art, dance and music as generators of knowledge to promote well-being, equality and transformation of existing power relations. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies with and between artists, activists and academics. The University of the Philippines - Diliman are leading Work Package 4 (Making Life Lovable: Digital and Literary Productions of Cultures of Equality Among LGBTQ young people in the Philippines) in partnership with the NGO YMCA San Pablo. WP 4 uses creative writing workshops to engage with LGBTQ identified writers and young people in the Philippines and explore their subjectivities and the intersecting forms of inequality they experience. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. To build research capacity and capabilities of interdisciplinary, feminist and queer researchers. 2. To create new collaborative partnerships between academics, NGOs, writers, educators and the public in the Philippines with regards to LGBTQ rights and well-being. 3. To create a research space wherein LGBTQ people feel safe and enabled to narrate and convey their varied experiences of intersecting inequalities and resultant impacts on their wellbeing. 4. To use creative writing and spoken word to elicit the relationships between LGBTQ people's everyday lives, intersecting inequalities and existing practices and strategies that challenge such inequalities. 5. To build pathways to impact and enable the sharing of creative and critical cultural competencies focused especially on literary production of cultures of equality within and across GG work packages. The Autonomous University of Chiapas are leading Work Package 5 (Por el buen vivir y el buen migrar: Creating cultures of equality through the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico) in partnership with the NGO VocesMesoamericanas. WP5 explores the Migrant Museum (MuMi) in Los Altos de Chiapas and uses participatory art and film to investigate the lives of indigenous young women and men, the problems they face and possibilities for "Good Living" (Buen Vivir) and "Good Migration" (Buen Migrar) in the face of disappearance, detention and the violation of labour rights. Their ongoing contributions are directed towards the following objectives: 1. Strengthen the capabilities of the team of researchers through courses and specific training in theoretical and conceptual approaches, visual arts and participatory action research. 2. Create new collaborations and deepen relationships between academic teams, civil society organizations, artists and other social groups, to share experiences and enrich the MuMi project. 3. Facilitate, through art and action research, critical spaces for reflection on issues related to migration, human rights and gender inequalities in the communities of Los Altos de Chiapas. 4. Explore, analyse and document the methods, methodologies and conceptual frameworks underpinning the educational and cultural approaches of MuMi as a model for strengthening the collective action of indigenous women, men and youth in the life of their communities. |
| Impact | 21 June-1 July 2018 - The partnership network co-curated the exhibition 'Exchanging Cultures of Equality', which was installed at Goldsmiths, University of London. This was multi-disciplinary, involving all the academic and NGO sector partners, and drawing from personnel across Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, Drama, International Relations, and Visual Anthropology. 23-27 July 2018 - The first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Partners Goldsmiths and the University of the Philippines were involved, drawing on a multi-disciplinary group of personnel from Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, and Anthropology. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | WP1 - Collaboration with Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) |
| Organisation | Theatre Arts Admin Collective |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | See below |
| Collaborator Contribution | WP1 team has met with and formed a collaboration with the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC), an independent theatre space in Cape Town. TAAC have agreed that the Sex Worker Theatre Group become the resident theatre project at TAAC over the next 23 months. This means that the group will have a dedicated rehearsal and performance space for the duration of the project. Alongside this, they have offered to mentor one person in theatre arts management and project management over the course of the project and has also offered that one person be mentored by their resident technical person. This means that the group will acquire arts management, technical and design skills alongside theatre and performance skills. This will ensure that the group is sufficiently skilled to be able to launch an independent sex worker theatre company at the end of the project. |
| Impact | This is a new collaboration, and at this stage it consists of an agreement by the partner to provide space, material and expertise to support the theatre group's development, rehearsal, skills training, and sustainability. Progress will be reported upon in future reporting periods. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | WP5 Mexico Team collaboration with DVV-International (Germany) on "Weaving new strategies focused on: Migration-Education-Development, in the Mexico-Guatemala cross-border context, for the rights of everyone" Project |
| Organisation | DVV-International |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | See below |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WP5 GlobalGRACE team in Mexico has collaborated with DVV-International (Germany) on a project called "Weaving new strategies focused on: Migration-Education-Development, in the Mexico-Guatemala cross-border context, for the rights of everyone", conducting 170 surveys, 27 interviews and 60 questionnaires on perceptions, knowledge and practices of young people and indigenous families. This research has led to the development of new diagnostic methodologies for quantitative and qualitative research with indigenous migrant communities. |
| Impact | The joint project has conducted 170 surveys, 27 interviews and 60 questionnaires on perceptions, knowledge and practices of young people and indigenous families. This research has led to the development of new diagnostic methodologies for social scientific quantitative and qualitative research with indigenous migrant communities. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | WP6 - GlobalGRACE and Museum Detox Collaboration |
| Organisation | Museum Detox |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Museum Detox is a group for BAME professionals in the museums sector which champions fair representation and inclusion of BAME cultural, intellectual and creative contributions, and challenges and works to deconstruct systems of inequality that exist to enable a sector where the workforce and audience is reflective of the UK's 21st century population. Nirmal Puwar, the WP6 CI, has developed on-going developmental and collaborative conversations on race in the museum sector through a working relationship with the Chair of Museum De-Tox. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | On the 13th July 2020 GlobalGRACE researcher Nirmal Puwar led a roundtable debate in partnership with 'Museum De-Tox' and the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths College. The roundtable focused on the inequalities faced by People of Colour in the UK museum sector, and asking whether, beyond statements of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement, museums really care about these issues. Members of the 'Museum De-Tox' organisation, a network for People of Colour who work in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and the heritage sector which champions fair representation and the inclusion of cultural, intellectual, and creative contributions from People of Colour. They aim to challenge and work to deconstruct systems of inequality that exist to enable a sector where the workforce and audience is reflective of the UK's 21st century population, and were represented by museum sector professionals Thanh Sinden, Nick Virk, and Cina Aissa. This roundtable brought together academic disciplines (Gender Studies and Sociology) with professional disciplines of curation and museums management. (for further details see output 'WP6 - Roundtable 'Do Museums Care: Conversation with Museum De-Tox'') |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | WP6 - GlobalGRACE and Space Invadors Collaboration |
| Organisation | Museum Space Invaders |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Inspired by WP6 GlobalGRACE CI Nirmal Puwar's book 'Space Invaders: race, gender and class' and her subsequent research on gender and race in museums, this networking group was founded in 2016 and is focused on self-care in the sector, as well as acting as a pressure group to influence change in the sector. More recently the group has collaborated formally with the WP6 team in GlobalGRACE directly on the research they are conducting on gender equality and the museums sector in the UK. Dr Puwar attended and presented at the launch of the new manifesto at the Think Tank in Birmingham, UK. The Space Invaders network continues to be a key pivotal partner for collaborations and public engagement activities and a key audience for emerging research outputs. The findings and analysis from the research will be shared at conference which the network are organising for 2020. We are also currently collaborating with the group to develop podcasts on gender and leadership in the museum sector, this will include a podcast with Nirmal Puwar. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration with 'Museum Space Invadors: Feminists in Museums and Heritage Campaigning for Sector Change' is driven by the work from the Goldsmiths team leading WP6. |
| Impact | In 2019 'Museum Space Invadors: Feminists in Museums and Heritage Campaigning for Sector Change' collaborated with GlobalGRACE to develop their 'Space Invaders Manifesto for Change', which calls for: - Equal power and influence, with more women leading our institutions - Fair conditions, with day-to-day working life designed to meet our needs - Our stories told, with real representation in collections, narratives and displays In 2020 the GlobalGRACE WP6 team funded and collaborated with the Third Sector organisation 'Space Invaders (Feminists in Museums and Heritage: Campaigning for Sector Change) to produce a series of podcasts which focused gender inequality and the marginalisation of People of Colour within the museum and heritage sector. Three episodes were produced: Feminist leadership in action - with Dr Adele Patrick - 1st November 2020 Women of colour in leadership - with GlobalGRACE researcher Dr Nirmal Puwar - 8th November 2020 Building a feminist museum from scratch - with Rachel Crossley - 16th November 2020 (see output 'WP6 - Podcast Series on Women and People of Colour in Museums - Collaboration with Space Invadors' for further details) |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | 'Protity - Women in Creation, Joy, and Feeling' - WP2 Social Media Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Bangladesh team has created a social media platform for women from all walks of life. The platform is a women-only Facebook group named 'Protity - Women in Creation, Joy, and Feeling'. The members can share their written stories, poems, essays, their cooking recipes, and all the stories of their everyday life here. The women entrepreneurs can promote their enterprises in the group. The idea of this group is to become a safe place for all the women to talk about things they may have wanted to share with their friends, but could not always do, as they thought people might not be interested in their stories. This group tries to debunk the myth that their voices are not valuable or valued. The main purpose of this group is to promote women's wellbeing and to provide a space where women can stand by each other in creation, in joy, in feeling, to share each other's joys and sorrows. The women entrepreneurs who run small enterprises want to support more marginalized and resource-poor women by recruiting them to work within their businesses. The intent of the GlobalGRACE Bangladesh team in creating the platform is to promote the women entrepreneurs who run small businesses (e.g. home chefs/gardeners) so that, as their businesses grow, they could support more women by recruiting and training them in greater numbers. Another goal is to familiarize the concept of 'delivery women' in society through women entrepreneurs. Women who are in the catering business, clothes business, in gardening, and working with other food and household items could employ women as delivery people which could create a new niche for marginalized women to sell their labour power. As of October 2021 there are more than 1300 women members in the group, and the number is increasing day by day. The members are posting about various issues, for example: writing short stories and poems, writing book reviews, promoting their businesses, sharing various food recipes, making fun posts, writing about their everyday experiences etc. The group has become a lively and vibrant platform within a very short period of time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/globalgrace-bangladesh-social-media-platform-facebook-group-for-wom... |
| Description | Creating Cultures of Equality: Global Conversations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was the launch event for the GlobalGRACE online course, Experiments in Cultures of Equality - https://course.globalgrace.net/ - and exhibition, Re/Locating Cultures of Equality - https://exhibition.globalgrace.net/. The event was live streamed over youtube and to date has had some 350 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOfLgDuXDU |
| Description | Dialogues on Violence: International Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A hybrid in person and social media event drawing on GG partners work and research on theme of dialogues on violence and transformative approaches from Global South |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF924_3rN_uDEX-pbI0yXIhnvg5uDacCm |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Launch Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On Friday 29th June 2018 the GlobalGRACE project hosted its first public event at Goldsmiths, University of London. The all day event consisted of a series of roundtable sessions at which the different research work packages of the project introduced their projects to an international audience of scholars, NGO representatives, members of the artist and creative industries and other members of civil society. Each roundtable was chaired by an independent gender specialist discussant, and the day finished with a panel comprised of internationally renowned gender studies professors from the USA (Professors Susan Stanford Friedman and Frances Negron Muntaner from the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University respectively), Africa (Professor Srila Roy from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), and Europe (Professor Rosemarie Buikema from Utrecht University, the Netherlands). These experts provided a detailed analysis of the plans for the project, and many pieces of advice for how it might proceed. The main impacts of this event were fourfold: 1. Substantial benefits accrued to the GlobalGRACE network itself, through the feedback, both formal and informal, provided by the audiences to the roundtable sessions. During the stage of the project when concrete and practical plans for the empirical research ahead were being developed this feedback from scholars, NGO professionals, the artistic and creative community, and the general public were highly useful, and have had a considerably positive impact on the ongoing research design process. 2. Capacities and capabilities of all participants were enhanced through participation in the roundtables and attendant discussions and networking. This is particularly so for the ECRs, who as would be expected are less experienced than their more senior colleagues in both public speaking and engaging with a varied audience that stretched beyond the academic sector that they are most familiar with. 3. Awareness of the project was raised, most importantly beyond Goldsmiths, across the wide range of attendees. The impact of this is somewhat intangible at this stage, but members of the project networked extensively with professionals across the range of sectors highlighted above. This opened the door to potential future impacts in the form of collaborations with individuals and organisations, and we hope in future reporting periods to be able to concretise these discussions in the form of partnerships, collaborations, and other impactful activities. 4. Awareness was also raised more generally of the substantive and theoretical themes with which the project engages. These most prominently include, but are not limited to, gender equality; gendered impacts on wellbeing and livelihoods; the intersections of art, scholarship and decoloniality in development; and the importance of the concept of curation, which crosscuts these themes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Photo Exhibition and Meet & Greet - WP2 Business and NGO-Focused networking event and dissemination of Photographic Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | GlobalGRACE (WP2) Bangladesh team has created an online platform for women from all professions. The platform is a women-only Facebook group, namely, Protity - Women in Creation, Joy, and In Feeling. The member women can share their written stories, poems, essays etc., their cooking recipes, and all the bittersweet stories of their life here. The women entrepreneurs can promote their businesses in that group. The idea of this group is to become a safe place for all the member women to share. The Bangladesh team also organized a photo exhibition and Meet & Greet with the members of the group on 26th June 2021 in the IDEA office in Sylhet, Bangladesh. It was a day-long event. The event started with the WP2 lead welcoming the guests and sharing the goal of GlobalGRACE Bangladesh in creating the platform, about the works of Nityo Sokha (online business platform of WP2 for marginalized women), and about the project. After the welcome speech, the guests introduced themselves to the other women. They then witnessed the photo exhibition curated with all the photographs of various events and works done by WP2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/globalgrace-bangladesh-photo-exhibition-and-meet-greet-with-women-2... |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Postcards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE website hosts a section entitle 'Postcards' which is used by the project team to produce and publish short pieces aimed at public engagement with the project's activities. In these short pieces we utilise photographs and images and embed video in an attempt to effectively disseminate information to a non-academic audience. The list of Postcards, accurate as of March 8th 2021, is as follows: 29/06/2018 - Global GRACE Launch Event - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/global-grace-launch-event) 23/07/2018 - WP4 - The First GlobalGRACE-UP National LGBTQ Writers Workshop - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/the-first-globalgrace-up-national-lgbtq-writers-workshop) 07/02/2019 - WP6 - Postcards from the Field: Collaboration in Curation - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/postcards-from-the-field-collaboration-in-curation) 28/03/2019 - WP5 - Postcards from the Field: Meeting Migrant Youth and Participatory Film Workshops - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/postcards-from-the-field) 19/06/2019 - WP1 - Postcards from the Field: Body Politics and Moving Bodies - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/body-politics-and-moving-bodies) 19/06/2019 - WP1 - Decolonising Academic Spaces - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/copy-of-decolonising-academic-spaces) 29/06/2019 - WP3 - Encounters between Marés / Encontros Intra Mareenses - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/encounters-between-mar%C3%A9s-english / https://www.globalgrace.net/post/encontros-intra-mareenses-portugu%C3%AAs) 20/10/2019 - WP2 - GlobalGRACE Mobile phone based Filmmaking and Photography Competition - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/globalgrace-mobile-phone-based-filmmaking-and-photography-competition) 20/07/2019 - WP2 - Participatory Filmmaking and Photography Workshop - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/participatory-film-making-and-photography-workshop) 18/10/2019 - WP3 - Launch: Rethinking Gender: Art, Politics, and Masculinities - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/launch-rethinking-gender-art-politics-and-masculinities) 25/10/2019 - WP2 - Filmmaking and Photography Workshops in Bangladesh - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/filmmaking-and-photography-workshops-in-bangladesh) 25/10/2019 - WP2 - Handicrafts Workshop in Bangladesh - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/handicrafts-workshop-in-bangladesh) 26/11/2019 - WP5 - Teatro de Sombres in Chiapas - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/teatro-de-sombres-in-chiapas) 21/12/2019 - WP5 - Infographics of Research into Migration, Education and Development - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/infographics-of-research-into-migration-education-and-development) 21/12/2019 - WP5 - Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth: Pronouncement and Videos - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/transnational-encounter-of-migrant-youth-pronouncement-and-videos) 21/12/2019 - WP3&5 - Reflections on the Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/transnational-encounter-of-migrant-youth-postcard) 31/12/2019 - WP3 - The Free Course at UNIperiferias - Rethinking Gender: Art, Politics, and Masculinities - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/the-free-course-at-uniperiferias-rethinking-gender-art-politics-and-masculinities) 27/01/2020 - WP2 - Participatory Photography, Filmmaking & Handicraft Workshop by WP2 - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/participatory-photography-filmmaking-handicraft-workshop-by-wp2) 06/02/2020 - WP1 - A Global Grace Whatsapp Soapie - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/a-global-grace-whatsapp-soapie) 06/02/2020 - WP4 - Making Lives Lovable: 2nd Community Writing Workshop - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/making-lives-lovable-2nd-community-writing-workshop) 12/02/2020 - WP1&3 - Reflections on the UCT Decolonial Summer School. Or, learning to ask questions - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/reflections-on-the-uct-decolonial-summer-school-or-learning-to-ask-questions) 24/02/2020 - WP2 - Launching the Female Construction Workers' Manifesto - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/launching-the-female-construction-workers-manifesto) 05/03/2020 - WP3 - Launch: Artistic Residency of Passinho Carioca Dance Company - (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/launch-artistic-residency-of-passinho-carioca-dance-company) 18/3/2020 - WP5 - A Mexico of Love and Learnings (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/a-mexico-of-love-and-learnings) 25/03/2020 - WP2 - GlobalGRACE Community Festival 2020 (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/globalgrace-community-festival-2020) 25/03/2020 - WP2 - WP2 Female Construction Worker's Film and Photography Exhibition Travels to India (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/wp2-female-construction-worker-s-film-and-photography-exhibition-travels-to-india) 26/03/2020 - A poem sent from a friend of Susan Friedman: Alicia Ostriker (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/a-poem-sent-from-a-friend-of-susan-friedman-alicia-ostriker) 6/4/2020 - Learning and Unlearning (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/learning-and-unlearning) 6/4/2020 - WP3 - Notes from the South on a Global Pandemic: Challenges and Resiliences (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/notes-from-the-south-on-a-global-pandemic-challenges-and-resiliences) 13/5/2020 - WP6 - Authenticity in the Age of Covid-19 (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/authenticity-in-the-age-of-covid-19) 3/6/2020 - WP5 - The Force of Possibility in the Time of a Pandemic (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/the-force-of-possibility-in-the-time-of-a-pandemic) 15/7/2020 - WP6 - Do Museums Care: Conversation with Museum De-Tox (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/do-museums-care-conversation-with-museum-de-tox) 6/8/2020 - WP2 - Virtual Photo Exhibition - "Swimming Against the Tide: Women Doing 'Men's' Work in Bangladesh" (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/virtual-photo-exhibition-swimming-against-the-tide-women-doing-men-s-work-in-bangladesh) 2/9/2020 - WP3 - Going Digital? (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/going-digital) 10/9/2020 - WP6 - British Museum Detour: Imperialism and Other Legacies (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/british-museum-detour-imperialism-and-other-legacies) 6/12/2020 - Special Issue on Creative Community Activism in Global Contexts (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/special-issue-on-creative-community-activism-in-global-contexts-2020) 1/2/2021 - WP2 - Workshop on Mental Wellbeing (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/workshop-on-mental-wellbeing) 8/2/2021 - WP5 - The process of creating a Huipil in the community of Bachén from Poconichim, Chenalhó Municipality (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/the-process-of-creating-a-huipil-in-the-community-of-bach%C3%A9n-from-poconichim-chenalh%C3%B3-municipality) 8/2/2021 - Primer Encuentro De Antropología Visual: Conversaciones Sobre La Construcción De La Mirada (https://www.globalgrace.net/post/primer-encuentro-de-antropolog%C3%ADa-visual-conversaciones-sobre-la-construcci%C3%B3n-de-la-mirada) These Postcards are advertised via the GlobalGRACE social media pages on Twitter and Instagram, and our analysis of these profiles has revealed that the number of impressions on each has been increasing throughout the project lifespan. For example: - Twitter impressions for our posts have increased from 1974/month in April 2019 to 4348/month in January 2020 - Instagram impressions per post has increased from 112.5 in April 2019, to 171.7 in August 2019, and up to 398 in January 2020. This data is concrete evidence that the Postcards published on our project website have been seen by increasing numbers of people, and therefore that the dissemination of GlobalGRACE project activities is widening. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/postcards |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Project operates two project-wide social media profiles on the Twitter (@GlobalGRACEgcrf) and Instagram (@globalgraceproject) platforms, and a number of Work Package specific Facebook profiles (for example WP2 Bangladesh - https://www.facebook.com/globalgracebd and WP4 Philippines - https://www.facebook.com/GlobalGracePH/). The Twitter and Instagram have proved to be a particularly effective means of disseminating information to an international audience, with our analysis showing that we have gained followers in all of the countries represented by the project (South Africa, Bangladesh, Brazil, Philippines, Mexico and the UK), as well as in additional countries such as the USA, Germany and Indonesia. Analysis has also revealed that the number of impressions on each has been increasing throughout the project lifespan. For example: - Twitter impressions for our posts have increased from 1974/month in April 2019 to 4348/month in January 2020 - Instagram impressions per post has increased from 112.5 in April 2019, to 171.7 in August 2019, and up to 398 in January 2020. This data is concrete evidence that the dissemination of GlobalGRACE project activities is widening, trends that continued through 2020 and into 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/globalgraceproject/ |
| Description | GlobalGRACE Youtube Channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In October 2020 the GlobalGRACE Project launched its own Youtube Channel to host the variety of videos, films and documentaries being produced by the project teams in Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, the Philippines and the UK. As of March 2021 the channel is still in its infancy, which a number of further videos in production, and a publicity campaign planned for mid-2021 to coincide with the launch of the GlobalGRACE Virtual Museum of Equalities and Online Course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKav1iaPvapQPw9Ymc0nWYg/featured |
| Description | Key Note Panelist on Intersectionality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GG PI Mark Johnson was keynote panelist at the UKRI GCRF Collective Programme: Education, Gender and Resilience Town Hall Meeting Town Hall Meeting in London on 7 February discussing intersectionality from a GlobalGrace perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mobilising Global Voices 2019 participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | GlobalGRACE was represented through poster and PI participation at the Mobilising Global Voices 2019: Perspectives from the Global South" event at Westminster, 27-28th February 2019 organised by GCRF AHRC in conjunction with the International Development Committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Online Teacher Training Summit (Philippines) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Critical Nationalism and Queer Decolonialities in the Philippine Classroom," Keynote by J Neil C Garcia for the online training summit, Kabaro: A Gender Awareness and Sensitivity Training Summit, on the theme, "Looking for Safe Spaces: Gender Equity and Equality in the Philippine Academe," sponsored by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts: Philippine Cultural Education Program (NCCA-PCEP) on August 11, 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzU_b5hrxy0 |
| Description | PLT - Suzanne Clisby - University of Sheffield Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training Workshop at the University of Sheffield, entitled Engendering cultures of equalities in global contexts: working through creative activism with the GlobalGRACE Project. The workshop drew on experiences of GlobalGRACE to train social scientists in how to bring arts-based methods and creative practice to their research and impact activities, focusing particularly on Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PUC-IRI Seminar "Gender, Violence and Construction in peace: perspectives and debates in international politics" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Seminar brought together academics, gender specialists and students form the state of Rio de Janeiro, and the roundtable "Intersectional Pathways to Transformational Policies. Rethinking Gender and (In)security beyond the maintenance of order" was organized by WP3 ECR Andrea Gill, with project researchers Linda Miriam (Promundo), Andrea Gill (PUC-Rio) and Marta Fernandez (PUC-Rio) participating as speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.iri.puc-rio.br/evento/detalhe/201 |
| Description | Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | "Philippine Queer Studies," DLSU Literature Department Graduate Forum, Asia-Pacific Rainbow Initiative, May 21, 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/dlsulitdept/photos/a.664650183585804/5253045988079511/ |
| Description | Presentation on Translational Christianity and Gender in the Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by J Neil C Garcia "Translational Christianity and Gender in the Philippines," Paper read at the conference, Postcolonial Christianities in the Philippines: 500 Years and Beyond, Session on Gender, Feminism, and LGBTQIA+ Encounters, sponsored by the Department of Theology and Religious Education of the De la Salle University Manila, March 26, 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/105454594192099/videos/428383585755174 |
| Description | WP 4 - ECR Jaya Jacobo Conference Presentation Euroseas Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | WP4 ECR Jaya Jacobo from the Philippines presented the paper, 'A Lexicon of Beloved Men: Genderqueer/Transfeminine Perspectives on Masculinity in Current LGBTQ Vernacular Poetry in the Philippines'. The paper was part of a panel on Cultural Strategies and Political Challenges in Southeast Asian Queer and Trans Communities that WP research team collectively participated in at the International Euroseas Conference, September 2019, and led to discussions on generating Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact in the Philippines through research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/cultural-strategies-and-political-challenges-in-southeast-as... |
| Description | WP 4 - Kate Ramil and Prof Mark Johnson - Conference Presentation Euroseas Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | WP4 NGO researcher, Kate Ramil and UK researcher Mark Johnson, presented the paper, Exploring Queer Models of Affective Companionship and Solidary with LGBTQ Allies in (and Beyond) the Philippines. The paper drew on research ongoing to talk about the importance and competing models of queer ally and accompliceship. The presentation was part of collective presentation of the WP 4 team on the panel Cultural Strategies and Political Challenges in Southeast Asian Queer and Trans Communities. The presenters were invited to contribute on the basis of the panel to a special publication arising from the conference and the series of presentations led to discussions with other scholars and advocates about developing region wide networks of collaboration to promote LGBTQ rights and equality across Southeast Asia, and to discussions on generating Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact through research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/cultural-strategies-and-political-challenges-in-southeast-as... |
| Description | WP 4 - Prof J Neil Garcia - Conference Presentation Euroseas Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor J Neil Garcia from the Philippines presented the paper, Timidity and Excess: The Postconfessional Poetry of Young Filipino LGBTQs. This was one of the first synthetic analysis of the national LGBTQ writing workshops. The paper was part of collective presentation for the panel Cultural Strategies and Political Challenges in Southeast Asian Queer and Trans Communities presented at the international EUROSEAS conference in Berlin, September 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/cultural-strategies-and-political-challenges-in-southeast-as... |
| Description | WP1 - HIV2020 Conference Participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Sex Worker Theatre Group was entered and selected to participate in the HIV2020 conference, which was initially scheduled to take place in June 2020 in Mexico City - Mexico. Due to Covid it was moved online and the Sex Worker Theatre Group staged a virtual exhibition of the filmed version of their performance 'Yeki Hambe: let it go', alongside a photographic exhibition which was live on the HIV2020 website from June 2020 to October 2020. On the 2nd of August 2020 they also 'took over' the HIV2020 instagram account to publicise the exhibition. The organisers of HIV2020 have reported that HIV2020 Online had a total of 7,397 participants from 131 countries who joined together for over 33 sessions to listen, participate, view, and interact with one another. All sessions were offered with simultaneous translation in five languages, which are now available online as video and audio recordings. This means that the reach of the GlobalGRACE Sex Worker Theatre Group was huge, and covered most DAC-listed countries across the world. The exposure of the project and its research was therefore very significant, and included a very wide range of people across the NGO, policy, education and general public sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hiv2020.org/hiv2020-ope-002 |
| Description | WP1 - Launch Symposium of WP1 research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Launch Symposium of WP1 research, organised by University of Cape Town Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (CTDPS), Sex Workers Theatre Steering group, linked to the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT), and the African Gender Institute (AGI). It was held at the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, Cape Town, South Africa. The symposium had three main objectives: 1. Increase the visibility and potential Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact of the project; 2. Share knowledge of sex work, gender, and cultures of in/equality; 3. Provide a platform for collaboration and networking with academics, NGOs, sex workers, performing artists and the public at large. It provided a space for participants to reflect on key concepts employed in the project, including 'wellbeing', 'cultures of gender equality', 'decoloniality', 'feminism', 'labour/work' and how some of these concepts have meaning (or not) in the lives of sex workers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/copy-of-decolonising-academic-spaces |
| Description | WP1 - Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki (South Africa) Methods Course at PUC-Rio (Brazil) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On 21-22 October 2019 South Africa ECR Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, whilst on placement at PUC-Rio in Brazil, delivered a course organized by the Methodology Laboratory of the Institute of International Relations at project partner PUC-Rio (Brazil) which focused on teaching the postgraduate students about the use of "Participatory Methods" to generate Gender Equality Impact in South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://labmetodologia.com/2019/10/10/oficina-metodos-participativos-com-phoebe-kisubi/ |
| Description | WP1 - SDG Conference Bergen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | At the February 2021 SDG Conference Bergen, attended virtually by more than 2,600 participants from 105 countries, GlobalGRACE researcher Phoebe Mbasalaki delivered a conference paper concerning gender equality, sex workers in South Africa , and Covid-19. Her paper was heard by approximately 150 attendees, but due to the online nature of the conference it is impossible to identify exactly where they came from. The conference was attended by scholars, students, NGO professionals and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uib.no/en/sdgconference/133578/2021-sdg-conference-programme-sdgs-after-crisis |
| Description | WP1 - SOAS Seminar on Covid and Sex Workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In May 2020 South Africa-based GlobalGRACE researcher Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki was invited by the School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London to present at an online symposium to an international audience of NGO professionals, scholars and students about the impact of Covid-19 on South African sex workers. Using the research conducted by GlobalGRACE and the networks built through this work she was able to increase awareness and knowledge amongst NGOs of the particular challenges faced by sex workers in South Africa in terms of Covid19 and associated public health measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1 - University of the Western Cape Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | GlobalGRACE researcher Yaliwe Clarke was invited to deliver a guest lecture at University of the Western Cape (South Africa) on feminist research methodologies, drawing empirically on the research work being undertaken by WP1 in South Africa. The attendees were postgraduate students from a South African university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1 Seminar - Dancing with Shadows and Light: Imaginaries of Feminist anti-colonial art and research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 40 postgraduates and scholars from South Africa attended this seminar given by GlobalGRACE researchers Yasmin Gunaratnam and Phoebe Mbasalaki hosted by Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts - University of Western Cape (South Africa) Entitled 'Dancing with Shadows and Light: Imaginaries of Feminist anti-colonial art and research' the seminar presented on the research of GlobalGRACE, and centred on the uses of artistic and creative practices in academic research and collaboration and the links that can be made to embodied social justice. The seminar aimed to disseminate knowledge from GlobalGRACE within the South African Academy and to establish networks and linkages, both of which were achieved, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP1 and 3 - Roundtable on Feminist Collaborations at the IFPJ Conference on Gender Violence and Feminist Resistance in Latin America |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 17-19 October 2019 GlobalGRACE Researchers from South Africa (Phoebe Kisubi - UCT) and Brazil (Marta Fernandez and Andrea Gill - PUC-Rio) were invited to participate in a roundtable on Feminist Collaborations at the IFPJ Conference on Gender Violence and Feminist Resistance in Latin America, a major international conference held at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil. Their session was concerned with international collaboration and partnership on research and impact directed at gender equality in the Global South. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ifjpconferencebrazil.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | WP2 - Bangladesh Community audiovisual workshops with female construction workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Audiovisual training workshops were held through the length of 2019 with female construction workers in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Building on the training provided to the GlobalGRACE team at the February workshops the GlobalGRACE researchers and student participants ran a series of workshops with female construction workers to train them in how to use mobile phone technology to record and represent their lives and experiences. As well as training the participants these workshops also functioned as Social Impact and community outreach activities, helping to spread knowledge of the project and its objectives to low income communities in Sylhet. We found that there were significant improvements made in community awareness of the lives and struggles of the female construction worker cohort and on knowledges and awareness of Gender Equality issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/filmmaking-and-photography-workshops-in-bangladesh |
| Description | WP2 - Bangladesh Community handicrafts workshops with female construction workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 31 August 2019 the female construction worker cohort from WP2 in Bangladesh held a Handicrafts Workshop at the headquarters of project partner NGO IDEA in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Research participants participated in and led a workshop in the making of artisanal handicrafts, providing an opportunity for them to generate Social Impact through demonstrating to the wider community that as well as constructing buildings they could also make delicate and beautiful art. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/handicrafts-workshop-in-bangladesh |
| Description | WP2 - Bangladesh workshops on Mental Wellbeing with Female Construction Workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | GlobalGRACE Bangladesh arranged workshops on Mental Wellbeing with a total number of fifteen female construction workers and household helpers living and working in Sylhet, Bangladesh during January 2021. During the workshops, the participants talked about their lives, everyday struggles, emotional crises, and impacts of Covid 19 on gender equality. They focused on their general wellbeing along with the status of their wellbeing during the time of the global pandemic, and the team are working on producing two separate short films on the mental aspects of the marginalized women's wellbeing in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/workshop-on-mental-wellbeing |
| Description | WP2 - GlobalGRACE Bangladesh Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Bangladesh team launched its website in April 2021, with the aim of creating a clear repository of their work and providing visitors with an easy way to learn about it, with sections on: Who We Are, How We Work, Events, Participants and their stories, the films and photography produced by the participants, and the academic resources that came from the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgracebd.net/ |
| Description | WP2 - Participatory Film and Photography Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | WP2 (Bangladesh) held a participatory film and photography training symposium at the partner university Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) from 15th-21st February 2019. This opened with events open to under-and-post graduates at the university, where they had the opportunity to hear from award-winning Bangladeshi photographers and documentarians Tanveer Mokammel and Jashim Salam, with workshops lead by these professionals the following day for members of student film and photography societies SUPA and CHOKH and project researchers. The remaining days saw concentrated gender filmmaking training provided by experts from the pan-Asian NGO 'Voices of Women Media' (http://www.voicesofwomenmedia.org/?page_id=10) to the project research team at SUST, which includes SUPA and CHOKH members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP3 - Brazilian rural community outreach events and educational activities in collaboration with Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In July and August 2020 GlobalGRACE researchers Marta Fernandez and Andrea Gill presented at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro's 'Readings from the Peripheries' series of events. On the 1st October 2020 GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill participated in a community outreach event organised by the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, speaking on a roundtable on "LGBTQIA+, heteronormatividade e Relações Internacionais" (LGBTQIA+, heteronormativity and International Relations) in a livestreamed event directed to rural communities in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She followed this on the 13th November with participation in a similar event on "Desconstruindo os saberes: A produção da (in)formação política nas periferias" (Deconstructing knowledges: the production of political (in)formation in the peripheries". Both events were livestreamed on Facebook Live and generated lively and engaged general public audience participation both during the events and since. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.facebook.com/110269084123885/videos/795430007944945 |
| Description | WP3 - Esquenta ELÃ Free School of Arts of Maré - Public Dialogues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of four livestreamed debates and discussions about the uses and role of the Arts in challenging and constructing masculinities. Speakers included GlobalGRACE team members, artists, curators, activists and scholars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWNQ1l6lhn3nd0isK-gggdg/videos |
| Description | WP3 - Esquenta ELÃ - Construindo Masculinidades Outras / Free School of Arts of Maré - Public Dialogues - Constructing Masculinities Otherwise |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Brazil team ran a series of four open access livestreamed workshops in late 2020/early 2021 which were aimed at using GlobalGRACE research to engage with artists, curators, arts industry professionals, arts and culture NGOs and members of the general public (principally in Brazil, but there were also attendees from elsewhere in the Lusophone world and its diasporas). Entitled 'Esquenta ELÃ - Construindo Masculinidades Outras / Free School of Arts of Maré - Public Dialogues - Constructing Masculinities Otherwise' they were dedicated to combatting gender inequality through exploring the role of the arts in constructing, representing and supporting positive masculinities. Artists, experts, stakeholders and scholars who have worked and collaborated with the GlobalGRACE Brazil team participated as speakers and discussants, representing the following Brazilian organisations: - Passinho Carioca - Mulheres ao Vento - UFRB - PUC-SP - Favela Sounds Festival - Visual Arts School of Parque Lage (EAV). The events were livestreamed and saw considerable audience interaction with the presenters through a moderated chat function, and the sessions were also recorded and posted on various social media outlets, including the GlobalGRACE Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKav1iaPvapQPw9Ymc0nWYg/videos). This included a number of young favela-based artists who applied to participate in the Third GlobalGRACE Brazil Artistic Residency in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKav1iaPvapQPw9Ymc0nWYg/videos |
| Description | WP3 - Jimmy Turner Methods Course at PUC-Rio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On 22-24 May 2019, whilst on placement with IMJA in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Jimmy Turner (Goldsmiths) delivered an Ethnography Course for postgraduate students from the International Relations Institute at PUC-Rio, drawing on GlobalGRACE research to teach ethnography as an artistic method and enhance the interdisciplinary research capacity at the university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.iri.puc-rio.br/noticia/detalhe/1023 |
| Description | WP3 - Masculinities Community Course in Mare favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This free community course on 'Rethinking gender: art, politics and masculinities' was convened by Brazilian GlobalGRACE partners IMJA and delivered over five sessions between September and December 2019 to residents of the Maré favela community in Rio. The course was free and open to all people regardless of gender identification who seek to delve into the diverse logic, dynamics and pacts that underpin current intersectional inequalities. The course brought professors, artists, activists and researchers connected to GlobalGRACE to reflect with the community on gender, hegemonic masculinities, black masculinities and intersectional methodologies especially in the field of arts, culture and education. The principle Social Impact and Gender Equality Impact of this activity was to bring academic and artistic discussions into a deeply impoverished and marginalised community and develop dialogues between academics, artists and the favela community concerning Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/the-free-course-at-uniperiferias-rethinking-gender-art-politics-and... |
| Description | WP3 - Outreach and Education activities linked to the 'Masculinidades em Diálogo' (Masculinities in Dialogue) Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To accompany the 'Masculinidades em Diálogo' (Masculinities in Dialogue) exhibition staged by the GlobalGRACE Brazil team from May 08 - June 12, 2021 the education and outreach team at the hosting gallery Galpão Bela Maré in Rio de Janeiro coordinated with the GlobalGRACE team to run 16 activities in May and 10 activities in June. This included guided tours, poetic actions, performances, talks with artists, a reading space, and a dissemination-boosting meeting between multipliers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | WP3 - Paper at BISA (British International Studies Association) 44th Annual Conference by Marta Fernandez and Victoria Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 12th-14th June 2019 WP3 researchers from Brazil Marta Fernandez (PUC-Rio) and Victoria Page (Promundo) attended the BISA (British International Studies Association) 44th Annual Conference at the Royal Society (London, UK) to deliver a paper 'Peripheries of Potential: Slam poetry and gender equality in Rio de Janeiro'. This is particularly relevent as the paper concentrated on disseminating to an academic audience the work and research of GlobalGRACE NGO partner Promundo, and is part of the project's focus on forging equitable partnerships between academia and NGOs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP3 - Participation in Brazilian Community-School-University Outreach Program "Direitos Humanos no Sul Global" (Human rights in the global south). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 24th November 2020 GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill presented to the Working Group "Educação em Direitos Humanos" (Education in Human Rights") in Community-School-University Outreach Program "Direitos Humanos no Sul Global" (Human rights in the global south), hosted by the Brazilian Universidade Estadual da Paraíba and focused on teacher education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP3 - Presentation at the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th July 2020 GlobalGRACE Researcher Andréa Gill participated as commentator on a roundtable "The emergence of antiracist protests during the pandemic" at the annual conference of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAx8bcu9wo |
| Description | WP3 - Presentation at the Brazilian II Encontro de Relações Internacionais do Rio de Janeiro (2nd Conference on International Relations of Rio de Janeiro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 30th August 2020 GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill drew on her GlobalGRACE research to present on "Entendendo as novas alternativas: O giro decolonial e a colonialidade" (Understanding the new alternatives: The decolonial turn and coloniality) at the II Encontro de Relações Internacionais do Rio de Janeiro ((2nd Conference on International Relations of Rio de Janeiro) organised by the Instituto de Integração de Relações Internacionais (Institute for the Integration of International Relations). The audience was comprised of scholars and postgraduate students from across Brazil. This has 1200 conference participants and 2407 visualizations of the live recording. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtPe9li61aA |
| Description | WP3 - Webinar on Building Epistemic Infrastructures in the Global South - Collaboration with the Mellon Foundation 'Governing Intimacies' Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 24th November 2020 GlobalGRACE Brazil researcher Andréa Gill was invited to participate in a webinar on "Building Epistemic Infrastructures in the Global South", hosted by the South Africa-based Mellon Foundation project "Governing Intimacies" with scholars from South Africa, India, Lebanon and Brazil, livestreamed and subsequently posted for an international audience. She used GlobalGRACE research as a means to explore with her collaborators the possibilities of "Building Epistemic Infrastructures in the Global South" as a way to develop research capacity in DAC-listed countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ZHrsI3Q5I |
| Description | WP3 and WP5 - 2º Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia Urbana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 25th-29th November 2019 WP3 and WP5 teams participated in a panel on "Memória, Curadoria e Política: expressões culturais e ocupação de espaços públicos através da arte" (Memory, Curatorship and Politics: cultural expressions and occupation of public spaces through art) at the "2º Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia Urbana" in UNAM, Mexico City. Five papers were delivered by GlobalGRACE Researchers from Brazil and Mexico, introducing to academic audiences the artistic methodologies being |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://2cihu.unam.mx/ |
| Description | WP4 - 1st GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From 23-27 July 2018, the first GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop was held in Manila. Ten young LGBTQ poets writing in Filipino and other regional languages, as well as English were selected as fellows from an open national competition, and they then benefitted from the mentorship of a panel of nationally recognised poets and scholars. Significantly, a number of the fellows were from outside the capital region including southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Here very clearly the varying impacts of inequality on mental and physical wellbeing were expressed through the poetry developed through the workshop. The workshop fellows have been invited to submit their revised poems to be published by UP press. This will be the first of a series of planned volumes arising from the annual series of writing workshops, with a further anthology planned as a learning and teaching resource for high school teachers. These resources will also contribute to the GlobalGRACE 'museum of global equalities' and online course. Moreover, in addition to the national benefits accruing from these eventual outputs, selected fellows and panellists will attend and act as mentors at the first community-based workshop which will be held later this year in the city of San Pablo, organised and hosted by project partners the YMCA San Pablo. This artistic exploration of the gender/wellbeing intersection will be an invaluable resource both in that country and for the project as a whole as all WPs develop and research this intersection through a variety of multisensory methods and artistic expressions. 2021 Update - The above-mentioned volume was published in 2020 under the title 'Busilak: New LGBTQ Poetry from the Philippines' - see publications section of this site for more details. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/blog/the-first-globalgrace-up-national-lgbtq-writers-workshop |
| Description | WP4 - 2nd GlobalGRACE- University of the Philippines National LGBTQ Writers Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 23rd to 28th July 2019 the 2nd GlobalGRACE-UP National LGBTQ National Writers' Workshop was convened by GlobalGRACE at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines.: The second national competitive LGBTQ Writers' workshop saw 10 young LGBTQ creative writers selected as fellows to workshop their creative writing with established national writers and critics. Significantly, a number of the fellows were from outside the capital region, and their work covered a wide range of experiences of gender and sexual inequality and the effects of this on mental and physical wellbeing. The workshop fellows have been invited to submit their revised creative writing pieces for consideration for publication by the UP press, as happened with the 1st National Workshop in 2018. This will be the second in the series of planned volumes arising from this annual series of writing workshops, with a further anthology planned as a learning and teaching resource for high school teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP4 - GlobalGRACE - YMCA 2nd Community LGBTQ Young Writers Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th - 15th December 2019 in Casa Redempta, San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines the GlobalGRACE - YMCA 2nd Community LGBTQ Young Writers Workshop was convened. Eight fellows participated in a three-day workshop on Creative Writing focused on Performances facilitated by Ms. Nerisa Del Carmen. This concluded with a public performance of works they developed through the workshop, following which audience members from the general public reported significant increases in their awareness of and concern about the gender inequalities and associated issues with wellbeing suffered by LGBTQ young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/making-lives-lovable-2nd-community-writing-workshop |
| Description | WP4 - Loving Oneself, Living with Others: Philippines 1st GlobalGRACE - YMCA community writing and performance workshop for LGBTQI + allies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The first planned local workshop event, 'Loving Oneself, Living with Others: 1st GlobalGRACE - YMCA community writing and performance workshop for LGBTQI + allies was held on 13 - 16 December. The event drew together young people from the community of San Pablo, Laguna. The workshop, which followed on from a launch event in the YMCA in October, 2018, was organised by Kate Ramil, our NGO project lead at YMCA San Pablo, and was comprised of both SOGIE awareness raising and a series of intensive day long workshops on creative writing, theatre and performance by academics and practitioners from Manila. The young people were also able to meet and receive mentoring from three of the writers from the initial national level writing workshop, who also performed poetry readings at the launch event previously in San Pablo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WP4 - Philippines - I See You: Building Allyship & a Gender-Inclusive Vision |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 27 June 2020 GlobalGRACE Philippines researcher Ferdinand Castillo participated in an online forum organized by Campus Erasmus Mundus, SPARK Philippines, and the Embassy of Austria in partnership with GlobalGRACE, Erasmus Mundus Association Women, and OCEANS Network. The forum aimed to contribute to the growing discourse on LGBTQIA+ during the Philippines Pride Month. It gathered people from diverse genders, Philippines ethnicities, and religions to discuss how people can find a meeting point to work towards building allyship and a positive gender-inclusive vision. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/events-1/i-see-you-building-allyship-a-gender-inclusive-vision |
| Description | WP4 - Philippines - Queer Filipiniana: Live Talk and Q&A with Susan Stryker and Jaya Jacobo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 4th June 2020 GlobalGRACE Philippines researcher Jaya Jacobo conducted a Q&A with important US Trans Scholar Professor Susan Stryker as part of Professor Stryker's teaching residency at the Bellas Artes Project (BAP) in Manila, Philippines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bellasartesprojects.org/courses/kaming-mga-talyada/ |
| Description | WP4 - Presentation at the Philippines conference 'Writing the Classroom 3: Philippines National Conference on the Teaching of Humanities and Literature' (2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In May 2019 GlobalGRACE Philippines researchers presented at the conference 'Writing the Classroom 3: National Conference on the Teaching of Humanities and Literature', drawing upon GlobalGRACE research on LGBTQ writing in the Philippines to engage an audience primarily comprised of teachers and education professionals, drawing to their attention the potential for the use of LGBTQ voices in the classroom to further aims of Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP4 - Presentation on LGBTQ+ Rights and Responsibilities at the DLSP School, San Pablo City, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 8th February 2020 GlobalGRACE Philippines researcher Ferdinand Castillo used GlobalGRACE research into LGBTQ writing to gave a presentation on 'LGBTQ+ Rights and Responsibilities' to an audience of students, teachers and the general public at the DLSP school in San Pablo City, Philippines. he discussed with them the necessity and desirability of including LGBTQ voices and experiences in social and institutional drives towards Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP4 - Presentations at the Philippines '4th YMCA National Youth Assembly' across two sessions in November and August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In August and November 2019 the GlobalGRACE Philippines team presented at two sessions of the Philippines '4th YMCA National Youth Assembly', to a cumulative audience of over 500 members, staff, supports and leadership of the YMCA in the Philippines. They used their GlobalGRACE research to emphasise the importance of LGBTQ voices in organisational and societal efforts towards Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP4 - Workshop at the Philippines 7th Annual Global Youth Summit (Manila, August 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Philippines annual Global Youth Summit convenes thousands of young delegates who are involved in Third Sector organisations and aims to develop youth leadership that is globally-minded and innovative through workshops that address themes and issues that impact youth like technology, environment, public policy advocacy and education. In August 2019 the GlobalGRACE Philippines team ran a workshop to an audience of over 300 young people, using their GlobalGRACE research to emphasise the importance of LGBTQ voices in societal efforts towards Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP5 - 2020 Mexico 'School of Masculinities' for Indigenous young men |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For a number of years GlobalGRACE Mexico partners VocesMesoamericanos have delivered residential schools for young Indigenous women from the Highlands of Chiapas which have focused on gender rights, relations and equality. The GlobalGRACE Mexico team has used the research and resources of the project to initiate a new parallel series of a 'School of Masculinities' for young indigenous men. The first two editions of the School were run in 2020, following strict social distancing and masking guidelines, each with 25 young men from Indigenous communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, and at which the role and potential for men and positive masculinities in contributing to gender equality were explored and developed. The young men returned very positive evaluations of the schools and reported a greatly increased confidence in their ability and desire to promote and sustain greater gender equality in their communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP5 - Critical Curation Workshop with young indigenous adults in Chiapas, Mexico |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In November 2019 the WP5 team in Mexico organised a workshop with young indigenous people at the Regional Museum of Los Altos de Chiapas to reflect on museums and analyze critically the curation processes behind the representations of their lives and those of their communities and ancestors. The insights and feedback generated through this workshop will not only be integrated into WP5 research but also the curational practices of the Migrant Museum and will be disseminated to regional museums later in the lifespan of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP5 - Indigenous Masculinities Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In 2019 the WP5 team in Mexico organised and delivered two masculinities workshops with young indigenous men in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. They used the existing model for workshops with young indigenous women of project partners VocesMesoamericanos to develop and pilot new projects on New Indigenous Masculinities. From the basis of the women's workshops, and using the feedback and participation of young men in these sessions the team have developed a new workshop curriculum for working with young indigenous men on gender equality. For the young indigenous men who attended and participated this was the first time that they had discussed and analysed their gender identities and the roles that they play in gender equality, and the feedback from the cohort of 50 young men was very encouraging as they reported changes to their views on gender and an increased recognition of the importance and desirability of gender equality. A further two editions of the School were run in 2020, following strict social distancing and masking guidelines, each with 25 young men from Indigenous communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, and at which the role and potential for men and positive masculinities in contributing to gender equality were explored and developed. The young men returned very positive evaluations of the schools and reported a greatly increased confidence in their ability and desire to promote and sustain greater gender equality in their communities. See 'WP5 - 2020 Mexico 'School of Masculinities' for Indigenous young men' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | WP5 - Mexico - Self-care and emotional health workshops for women in times of Pandemic. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the GlobalGRACE Mexico team, led by project partners VocesMesoamericanos, ran a series of three 'Self-care and Emotional Health Workshops for Women in Times of Pandemic'. Each of the workshops was strictly socially distanced and masked and saw 30 women from Indigenous communities in the Highlands of Chiapas, both prior research participants and members of their communities, receive support, resources and space to together explore and develop strategies for collective wellbeing and the strengthening of the progress they had previously made in pushing for greater gender equality during the time of a pandemic which threatened not only health and wellbeing but also the continuation of their community gender equality activism. Evaluations of the workshops revealed that the women were able to learn important strategies and practices from each other, develop supportive networks across communities, and plan effectively for maintaining gender equality gains made prior to 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP5 - Mexico Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth in Chiapas, Mexico |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 2nd to 6th December 2019 in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico the WP5 team participated in the Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth, organised by GlobalGRACE partners VocesMesoamericanos. A multinational group of young people were brought together to participate in workshops on various artistic languages that push the boundaries of their thoughts and imaginations. Using artistic languages from Graffiti to hip hop to cinema, and theatre they explored issues affecting migrant young people, from resistance to collaboration, and from violence to love they explored these common experiences and formed networks. The WP5 team led sessions which focused on gender equality, attended by 200 young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/transnational-encounter-of-migrant-youth-pronouncement-and-videos |
| Description | WP5 - MuMi presentation in Sonora State |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project researchers from UNACH and VocesMesoamericanos travelled from Chiapas to the northern Mexican state of Sonora to give a presentation of the Migrant Museum (MuMi), a documentary screening and participatory workshop to day laborers in Sonora on November 29 and 30th 2018. This state attracts the largest number of migrant workers from other parts of Mexico, but these workers are often forgotten due to the focus on those migrants who cross the border into the USA. The main objective during the event was to disseminate MuMi and the project and engage the day laborers in discussions of their rights and to seek answers to the problems they faced by the thousands of agricultural workers in Sonora. The main objective for future engagements is to open spaces for dialogue between day laborers and stakeholders to develop proposals that provide alternative solutions to the different problems and contribute to the visibility of this social group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WP5 - Popular Education in Latin America meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In July 2021 the GlobalGRACE Mexico team convened a virtual meeting for practicioners of Popular Education entitled "Popular educators in times of change, voices from the heart". 35 people from various Latin American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru) participated directly in the meeting, which was recorded and posted online to reach a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/virtual-meeting-popular-educators-in-times-of-change-voices-from-th... |
| Description | WP5 - Presentation on "Global gender and cultures of equality" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In September 2020 GlobalGRACE researcher Suzanne Clisby and the GlobalGRACE Mexico team collaborated in virtually presenting on "Global gender and cultures of equality" to an audience of approximately 50 from Mexico, drawn from GlobalGRACE partner organisations UNACH and VocesMesoamericanos, and external professional practitioners and Third Sector groups engaged in work on Gender Equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP5 - Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas on the 25th and 26th January 2019 project researchers participated in the third annual Encuentro transnacional Juventud Migrante (Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth) organised by project partners VocesMesoAmericanos. Using a Participatory Film Workshop and a presentation of the Migrant Museum (MuMi) the team reflected with young people on the identity changes that they experience in migratory contexts, and the possibilities of building new forms of relationship and participation in communities, as well as to encourage the creation of a transnational network of young migrants in the Central American region who seek to strengthen their empowerment, their rights, and an articulated work that promotes interculturality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP5 - Visual Anthropology Encounter: Conversations on the construction of the gaze |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On December 8th - 11th 2020 the GlobalGRACE Mexico team organised the first 'Visual Anthropology Encounter: Conversations on the construction of the gaze' at the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH, Mexico). Organised and thematically structured around and within the framework of the activities of the GlobalGRACE project this was a collaboration between the Goldsmiths, the Audiovisual Research Laboratory-UNACH, the Audiovisual Laboratory of the Metropolitan University of Mexico (UAM-I), Mesoamerican Voices and the Collegiate Cultural Research Group of Society and Government (UNACH). Employing a mixture of debates, workshops, presentations, and film screenings, and revolving around the field of study and methodologies of visual anthropology, its contributions to the social sciences and to discuss the debates that revolve around ethnographic cinema, this constituted the first such event in the region which was open to scholars, students, filmmakers and Third Sector groups. Most participants were from Mexico, but other DAC-listed countries such as Colombia were involved, using different geographies and experiences to provoke dialogues in relation to the field of visual anthropology, the future of ethnographic cinema, and the role of ethnography in times of pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/primer-encuentro-de-antropolog%C3%ADa-visual-conversaciones-sobre-l... |
| Description | WP5 - Workshop discussion on Human Rights and SDGs with NGOs and Mexican state representatives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The GlobalGRACE Mexico team, led by NGO partner VocesMesoamericanos, participated in a workshop dialogue between NGOs and Mexican state and government entities to discuss achieving the effective implementation of the SDGs in the communities and the full exercise of the Human Rights of indigenous and migrant peoples in Chiapas, Mexico. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubu0vVk9MAo |
| Description | WP5 and WP6 - Interactive workshop on 'Collaborative healing and memory galleries' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In July 2020 GlobalGRACE UK researcher Siobhan McGuirk collaborated with the GlobalGRACE Mexico team to stage an online interactive workshop on "Collaborative healing and memory galleries", which drew on WP5 and WP6 research. The workshop was attended by staff and students from UNACH, staff from VocesMesoamericanas, and professional practitioners from Mexican organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WP5 and WP6 Collaborative Conference Paper - "Affective productions at the Museo Migrante" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 4th September 2019 Siobhan McGuirk (WP6) and Deyanira Clériga Morales (WP5) delivered a paper at the Association of Social Anthropology (ASA) annual meeting at the University of East Anglia (UK) entitled Affective 'productions at the Museo Migrante'. This collaborative paper developed from the ECR exchange in Mexico on the Museum of Migration, and considered knowledge production, public exchange and creative outputs, and their roles in generating Social Impact and Gender Equality Impacts in Mexico and beyond. Useful comments and questions were contributed by the audience, and knowledge of GlobalGRACE activities was disseminated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa19/panels#7988 |
| Description | WP6 - Podcast Series on Women and People of Colour in Museums - Collaboration with Space Invadors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In 2020 the GlobalGRACE WP6 team funded and collaborated with the Third Sector organisation 'Space Invaders (Feminists in Museums and Heritage: Campaigning for Sector Change) to produce a series of podcasts which focused gender inequality and the marginalisation of People of Colour within the museum and heritage sector. Three episodes were produced: Feminist leadership in action - with Dr Adele Patrick - 1st November 2020 Women of colour in leadership - with GlobalGRACE researcher Dr Nirmal Puwar - 8th November 2020 Building a feminist museum from scratch - with Rachel Crossley - 16th November 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mspaceinvaders.com/tag/podcast/ |
| Description | WP6 - Presentation to SHIFT Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In August 2019 WP6 ECR Siobhan McGuirk presented back data from her interviews with women museum leaders to a sub-group of retired senior women from the museums sector in the UK who have formed the SHIFT group. She has developed a good working relationship with this group be collecting data from them as a group during the course of the project and by returning data to them now that we are in the analysis phase of this segment of the work package as a critical step in both analysis of the data and disseminating emerging findings to influencial stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WP6 - Roundtable 'Do Museums Care: Conversation with Museum De-Tox' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th July 2020 GlobalGRACE researcher Nirmal Puwar led a roundtable debate in partnership with 'Museum De-Tox' and the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths College. The roundtable focused on the inequalities faced by People of Colour in the UK museum sector, and asking whether, beyond statements of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement, museums really care about these issues. Members of the 'Museum De-Tox' organisation, a network for People of Colour who work in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and the heritage sector which champions fair representation and the inclusion of cultural, intellectual, and creative contributions from People of Colour. They aim to challenge and work to deconstruct systems of inequality that exist to enable a sector where the workforce and audience is reflective of the UK's 21st century population, and were represented by museum sector professionals Thanh Sinden, Nick Virk, and Cina Aissa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.globalgrace.net/post/do-museums-care-conversation-with-museum-de-tox |
| Description | WP6 - Space Invaders Manifesto Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nirmal Puwar and Dr. Siobhán McGuirk presented their research on women in the heritage sector as part of a podcast marking the launch of the Space Invaders Manifesto in September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYycFO3ExhI |
| Description | Women of the World Festival, Rio November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Brazil-based Work Package Three team were involved in the organisation and participation in WOW (Women of the World Festival), held over the 16-18 November 2018 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The WOW Festival is a space for women to celebrate their stories of struggles and achievements, and project lead Marta Fernandes and NGO lead Isabela Souza both contributed to public events: respectively round-tables entitled 'Nossa arma é nossa voz: a produção artística contemporânea pela promoção da igualdade de gênero' (Our voice is our weapon: Contemporary artistic production for the promotion of gender equality) and 'É possível e necessária uma cidade segura e humana para as mulheres' (A safe and humane city for women is possible and necessary). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.festivalmulheresdomundo.com.br/br/participantes/dialogos |