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Mate, you're crippin' us out: biopolitics of the arts curriculum in Australia and the swinging identities of dis/abilities

Mate, you're crippin' us out: biopolitics of the arts curriculum in Australia and the swinging identities of dis/abilities
Mate, you're crippin' us out: biopolitics of the arts curriculum in Australia and the swinging identities of dis/abilities
The article explores arts curriculum in Australia as developed in the contexts of schooling, community organizations, and higher education f or people with disabilities and mental health concerns. Motivated to e xplore whether or not students provided access to modified arts curric ulum are engaging in education or receiving therapy, the aim is to add ress a dichotomy that is seemingly present in educational institutions , but extends well beyond the school gate and informs organizational r esponses to arts in the lives of people with disabilities. Resourced w ith the theoretical contributions of dis/ability studies for its conce rn for the biopolitics of disability, the authors weave personal exper iences through the discussion of participation in arts throughout thei r lives. The article concludes with a theoretical discussion of how ar ts provision in the Australian context might develop the social and po litical value of art in the lives of people with dis/abilities and for all, on the basis that its educative value is emphasized over its the rapeutic one.
1757-6458
345-360
Roche, Maree
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Whitburn, Ben
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Roche, Maree
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Whitburn, Ben
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Roche, Maree and Whitburn, Ben (2019) Mate, you're crippin' us out: biopolitics of the arts curriculum in Australia and the swinging identities of dis/abilities. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 13 (3), 345-360. (doi:10.3828/jlcds.2019.25).

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The article explores arts curriculum in Australia as developed in the contexts of schooling, community organizations, and higher education f or people with disabilities and mental health concerns. Motivated to e xplore whether or not students provided access to modified arts curric ulum are engaging in education or receiving therapy, the aim is to add ress a dichotomy that is seemingly present in educational institutions , but extends well beyond the school gate and informs organizational r esponses to arts in the lives of people with disabilities. Resourced w ith the theoretical contributions of dis/ability studies for its conce rn for the biopolitics of disability, the authors weave personal exper iences through the discussion of participation in arts throughout thei r lives. The article concludes with a theoretical discussion of how ar ts provision in the Australian context might develop the social and po litical value of art in the lives of people with dis/abilities and for all, on the basis that its educative value is emphasized over its the rapeutic one.

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Published date: 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 470989
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/470989
ISSN: 1757-6458
PURE UUID: 117e3424-dc63-43c8-bd75-6d462090f23e
ORCID for Ben Whitburn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3137-2803

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Author: Maree Roche
Author: Ben Whitburn ORCID iD

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