Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on...
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| author | Zhuang, Victor Kuansong Choo, Bella Lee-Khoo, Grace |
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| description | The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of social inclusion, we consider the recent emergence of disability-led arts in Singapore. These disabled-led initiatives have proliferated in the past five years and have afforded new opportunities to challenge existing meanings of inclusion and to impart new forms of knowledge about the disabled body. In this article, we analyse recent disabled-led art productions put up by Access Path Productions, a disability-led arts creative organisation. In pivoting to the disabled body/mind as a generative form of knowledge and embodiment, these disabled-led performances offer new artistic practices spanning both digital and physical forms. Importantly, these initiatives have engaged with existing art and cultural spaces and institutions in Singapore, transforming existing ways of doing, thinking, and knowing about disability and offering a critical praxis aimed at (re)educating the public on the meanings of disability. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1762392024-05-14T05:19:33Z Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore Zhuang, Victor Kuansong Choo, Bella Lee-Khoo, Grace Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social Sciences Disabled people Social inclusion The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of social inclusion, we consider the recent emergence of disability-led arts in Singapore. These disabled-led initiatives have proliferated in the past five years and have afforded new opportunities to challenge existing meanings of inclusion and to impart new forms of knowledge about the disabled body. In this article, we analyse recent disabled-led art productions put up by Access Path Productions, a disability-led arts creative organisation. In pivoting to the disabled body/mind as a generative form of knowledge and embodiment, these disabled-led performances offer new artistic practices spanning both digital and physical forms. Importantly, these initiatives have engaged with existing art and cultural spaces and institutions in Singapore, transforming existing ways of doing, thinking, and knowing about disability and offering a critical praxis aimed at (re)educating the public on the meanings of disability. 2024-05-14T05:19:33Z 2024-05-14T05:19:33Z 2024 Journal Article Zhuang, V. K., Choo, B. & Lee-Khoo, G. (2024). Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2295529 0256-0046 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176239 10.1080/02560046.2023.2295529 2-s2.0-85182415403 en Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies © 2024 Critical Arts. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Disabled people Social inclusion Zhuang, Victor Kuansong Choo, Bella Lee-Khoo, Grace Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title | Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title_full | Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title_short | Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore |
| title_sort | towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion disability led arts and its radical promise in singapore |
| topic | Social Sciences Disabled people Social inclusion |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176239 |
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