The hard promise to end with disability though inclusive art

Authors

  • Laura Martínez Fernández
  • Baltasar Fernández Ramírez

Abstract

Disability has been a controversial topic over the ages. Disability people are seen as useless and unproductive by an important part of the society though this understanding is tried to be masked. It alludes to little details that occur in the interaction among different people, with/without, who belong to an association of inclusive art. For instance: in not waiting for the disability people to have initiative, or the fact of being treated as children. The imposition of an illusory socially-defined normality emerges in these practices. The goal of the study was to analyze the feasibility of a strategy of desidentification in a center of inclusive art. Results show that the work with center users, subtle or openly, continues the limits of traditional conceptions of functional diversity. Some paternalist and stigmatizing practice in language and personal interaction complicates users to accede to relational constructions of alternative identities from usual stigmas.

Keywords

Functional Diversity, Art Brut, Queer Theory, Social Identity

Author Biographies

Laura Martínez Fernández

Graduada en psicología en la universidad de Almería

Baltasar Fernández Ramírez

Profesor de psicología social, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Almería.

Published

04-07-2017

How to Cite

Martínez Fernández, L., & Fernández Ramírez, B. (2017). The hard promise to end with disability though inclusive art. thenea igital. evista e ensamiento investigación ocial, 17(2), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1750

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