Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts

Hadley, Bree; Rieger, Janice; Ellis, Katie; Paterson, Eddie

doi:10.1080/09687599.2022.2067468

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“…Art-related allies were mentioned in eight abstracts: art therapists [213], artists [214][215][216], arts [217][218][219], arts teachers [220], and arts organizations [59].…”

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Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Lillywhite

2023

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Disabled people face many problems in their lived reality, as evidenced by the content of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Disabled people are constantly engaged in activism to decrease their problems. However, disabled people cannot do all the work by themselves and need allies (who can be so-called non-disabled people or disabled people of a different background to other disabled people) given the many barriers disabled people face in being activists, given the precarious lived reality of many, and given the many problems in need of solving. At the same time, the expectations linked to being an authentic ally of disabled people pose many challenges and stressors and a danger of burnout for the ally. Therefore, the aim of this study was to better understand the academic coverage of allyship and allies in relation to disabled people in general, and specifically the coverage of challenges, stressors, and danger of burnout for allies of disabled people. To fulfill this aim, we performed a scoping review of academic abstracts and full texts employing SCOPUS, the seventy databases of the EBSCO-HOST and the Web of Science. Of the 577 abstracts, covering allies and allyship in relation to disabled people that were downloaded, 306 were false positives. Of the 271 relevant ones, the content of six abstracts suggested a deeper coverage of allyship/allies in the full texts. Within the full texts, two mentioned ally burnout and four mentioned challenges faced by allies. Among the 271 abstracts, 86 abstracts mentioned allies without indicating who the allies were, 111 abstracts mentioned specific allies with technology as an ally being mentioned second highest. Sixty-three abstracts covered specific topics of activism for allies. Furthermore, although searching abstracts for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) related phrases, terms, and policy frameworks generated sixty-three abstracts, only three abstracts mentioned disabled people. Abstracts containing science and technology governance or technology focused ethics fields terms did not generate any hits with the terms ally or allies or allyship. Searching abstracts and full texts, phrases containing ally or allies or allyship and burnout had 0 hits, ally terms with stress* generated four hits and phrases containing anti-ableism, or anti disablism, anti-disableist, anti-disablist, anti-ablist, or anti-ableist with ally terms had 0 hits. Our findings show many gaps in the coverage of allies and allyship in relation to disabled people especially around the barriers, stressors, and burnout that authentic allies of disabled people can face. These gaps should be filled given that disabled people need allies and that there are many challenges for being an authentic disabled or non-disabled ally of disabled people.

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“…Art-related allies were mentioned in eight abstracts: art therapists [213], artists [214][215][216], arts [217][218][219], arts teachers [220], and arts organizations [59].…”

Section: Years Number Of Abstractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Lillywhite

2023

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“…As such, the overwhelming majority of organisations do not formally articulate a commitment to disability awareness training, employment, participation or access (Arts Access Australia, 2019Australia, , 2020. Industry-wide, few arts organisations employ disabled International Journal of DISABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 2.1 June 2022 artists, or programme disability arts as part of regular seasons, rather than as part of one-off special initiatives or partnerships (Hadley, 2017a;Hadley et al, 2022;Hadley et al, forthcoming 2023). As the 2017 Making Art Work report made clear, while 4.3 million Australians identified as disabled, only 4,231 disabled artists and 3,063 disabled arts workers moved beyond recreation, volunteering or other 'serious leisure' (Patterson, 1997) engagement to achieve semi-professional or professional employment in the arts (Throsby and Petetskaya, 2017;CofA, 2018).…”

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Quick Trust and Slow Time

Hadley¹,

Paterson²,

Little³

2022

IJDSJ

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In the last decade, the field of Disability Arts has been recognised as a powerful source of aesthetic innovation. Yinka Shonibare has described it as ‘the last remaining avant-garde movement’ (Bragg, 2007), where artists with lived experience of disability produce new combinations of form, content and politics, which engage spectators in provocative reflections on the way we relate to each other in the public sphere. Despite a range of policies, plans, protocols and funding programmes to support disabled artists and collaborations between mainstream producers and disabled artists, the statistics – at least in our context in Australia – suggest most disability art still occurs outside and alongside an industry that struggles to include these artists. In this article, we draw upon findings from a series of workshops with disabled artists around Australia, conducted as part of the ARC funded Disability in the Performing Arts in Australia: Beyond The Social Model project – known colloquially to its collaborators and participants as ‘The Last Avant Garde’ project (https://lastavantgarde.com.au) – to propose a new approach. We find that while provision of logistical access (ramps, hearing loops, interpreters) and ideological access (stories, characters, discourse and language) is critical, so is methodological access, which embodies disability culture in training, rehearsal and production processes. Disabled artists use crip culture, along with relational space and time to negotiate what happens in disability arts and culture production practices and work through desire, fear, vulnerability and reciprocity to rapidly establish trusting collaborations. It is inclusion of disability culture relationships and concepts, as much as ramps and inclusive language, that makes a practice feel safe for disabled artists – and this, we argue, is what the mainstream sector has to learn and what the disability arts sector has to teach about improving the inclusivity of the creative industries.

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Rethinking and Advancing a ‘Bottom-up’ Approach to Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities as Key to Realising Inclusive Equality

Leahy,

Ferri

2024

International Journal of Law in Context

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Debates about cultural participation of persons with disabilities within legal and socio-legal scholarship and within disability studies tend to remain disconnected. This article brings legal analysis and other academic disciplines into a critical dialogue. It sheds light on how the right to cultural participation is understood from the bottom up, building on a study carried out across Europe. Participants in this study perceived opportunities to participate in, and to contribute to, arts and culture in ways that are consistent with the human rights approach to disability as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and as central to the concept of inclusive equality. Cultural participation was also understood as intrinsic to the humanity of all people, as vital to inclusion in mainstream life, as capable of communicating experiences or identities not otherwise represented, and as potentially transformative of art-forms and ultimately, of society.

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Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Quick Trust and Slow Time

Rethinking and Advancing a ‘Bottom-up’ Approach to Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities as Key to Realising Inclusive Equality

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