This collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research approaches; textual and discourse analysis; as well as other methods to discover how disability figures into our contemporary world(s).
Chapters within the collection explore, amongst other topics, deaf theatre productions, representations of disability on-screen, community engagement projects and disabled bodies in dance. Disability Arts and Culture provides a comprehensive overview and a range of case studies benefitting both the practitioner and scholar.
Petra Kuppers is professor of English and women's studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbour. Petra is a well respected figure in the field of performance arts, in particular feminist and disabled theatre, and is a faculty fellow at the National Council for Institutional Diversity. She is the author of Theatre and Disability.
Title: Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches
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ISBN: 9781789385106
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Publisher: Intellect Books
Publication Date: 2021-08-23
Number of Pages: 308
Weight: 0.5051 kg
The essays take an unflinching look at disability, unpacking the narratives of disability that are presented in television and other media. . . . Disability Arts and Culture shares multiple experiences of disability to challenge the single story of disability as an inferior state that must be fixed and instead, shows states of being entitled to their agency. * Nicole Y. McClam, Journal of Dance Education *
This book allows us to rethink ideas of disability performances from the most local occurrences . . . to the most global. . . . It takes up the work of critical disability studies by foregrounding many intersectional and global and non-Western explorations of disability art and culture. . . . The book has strong methods-based examples that also benefit from the wide scope. Broken up into four different methods-based approaches to knowledge production, the book covers textual analysis, discourse analysis, qualitative inquiry, and ethnography. Disability studies methods are still being developed in this young discipline, which makes these essays incredibly helpful for people interested in examples of others deploying these methods. The methods are situated in scholarly inquiry, which makes this text perhaps more useful for scholars in the field. * Noah Bukowski, Disability Studies Quarterly *
The texts that lie outside [the UK and USA] are particularly important contributions to the field of cultural disability studies. . . . When it comes to the analysis of UK or US mainstream culture, some of the research in the collection finds new ways to expand existing discourse. . . . Access to and power over representations of disability are themes that run as a common thread through the volume. The variety of cultural contexts, methodologies and forms of culture that are analyzed make this a useful contribution to the field. . . . The final contribution in the volume by Petra Kuppers, about the Salamander project, contains in itself fragments of writing by various voices and thus beautifully echoes the different perspectives present in the volume, as well as the different perspectives that the category of disability must contain. * Nina Muhlemann, New Theatre Quarterly *
