Description du projet
Une réponse artistique au terrorisme
Les autorités européennes ont intensifié leur lutte contre le terrorisme, un fléau que tous les États membres subissent. Le projet UrbTerr, financé par l’UE, travaille sur une analyse comparative approfondie des discours sur la mémoire et des réactions aux récentes attaques dans quatre pays européens (Allemagne, Espagne, France et Royaume-Uni). Il mettra l’accent sur les formes collectives d’oubli, de souvenir et d’imagination qui ont façonné les espaces urbains de ces pays après les attentats terroristes. Il utilisera l’art de la performance comme un outil créatif pour développer et expérimenter d’autres formes de mémoire. Le projet créera un site Web pour diffuser des entretiens avec des citoyens, des militants politiques, des politiciens et d’autres acteurs clés. Il organisera également une série de performances artistiques sur la sécurité.
Objectif
Since 2004, public spaces in European cities have been hit by more than ten major terrorist attacks, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. Whilst trying to come to terms with recent acts of urban terrorism, governments, security agencies, and local communities are bracing themselves for further attacks. UrbTerr will offer the first in-depth comparative analysis of memory discourses and responses to recent acts of urban terrorism in four European countries that have suffered particularly as a result of this wave of violence: Spain, the UK, France, and Germany. Drawing on concepts and methods from memory studies, cultural studies, feminist theory and anthropology, UrbTerr will document and analyse a range of voices in contemporary debates on urban terrorism in Europe and problematise the narrow concept of imagination and creativity underpinning recent counter-terrorism measures and a great part of the academic literature on this subject. It will: (1) analyse the collective forms of forgetting, remembering, and imagining that have shaped urban spaces in the four countries after recent terrorist attacks; (2) develop a new materialist approach to terrorism and use this framework to critically assess policies and material security infrastructures that were created in response to these attacks at a local and European level; (3) use performance art as a creative tool to develop and experiment with alternative forms of remembering and different visions of the future. Outputs of the project will include a website with footage of interviews with city residents, politicians, architects, political activists, and other key actors, as well as other resources for terrorism research, two academic monographs, articles in peer-reviewed journals, a co-edited volume, two PhD theses, and a series of thought-provoking public art performances that will spark critical debates about securitization processes in contemporary Europe.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
B15 2TT Birmingham
Royaume-Uni