• Publication date: 11/2017
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue: 4
Foreword

Discussions of intellectual disability are often found in medical journals, published biography/memoirs, and, of course, disability research, but outside the realm of medicine, personal reminiscence and disability theory, intellectual disability often struggles for social, historical and cultural representation. It struggles for visibility. In 1995 in her research paper ‘Culture and Disability’, historian Karen Hirsch writes: ‘Few historians have included disability issues as an integral part of their thinking and writing’ (1995: 27). In Enforcing Normalcy, also published in 1995, Lennard Davis writes: There is a strange and really unaccountable silence when the issue of disability is raised (or, more to the point, never raised). The concept of disability has been relegated to a sideshow, a freak show at that, far away from the academic midway of progressive ideas and concerns (1995: 4).

  Title Author(s)
Foreword
3 Introduction: Visability: Making disability visible through artistic discourses Sarah Kanake
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Articles
5 Integrated Dance as a Public Pedagogy of the Body Anna Hickey-Moody
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15 Style, Stage Presence, and the Poetic Subversion of Stereotypes: A case study of Blue Roo Theatre Company Bree Hadley and Clark Crystal
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23 ‘We Will Look After You’: Back to Back Theatre’s Lady Eats Apple and the promise of ‘the time after’ in the narratives of theatre involving actors with intellectual disabilities Tony McCaffrey
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32 We Have to Talk About Diane Arbus: An art-as-research perspective of visual arts representations of intellectual disability Donna McDonald
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38 Television as Social Welfare: The Dreamhouse Katie Ellis
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44 Inspiration is Power: Voices of information and advocacy for the reader of autism narratives Michael Whelan
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51 Power and Social Change: The case of the European social justice movement Dalilah A. Reuben-Shemia
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Short Stories
62 The Bridge to the Island Ariella Van Luyn
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Book Reviews
60 The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life Bridget Backhaus
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61 Born to Run Tim Prenzler
Poetry
14 Where is Our Motherland Heading? Omid
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14 The News, Pontville Tasmania, 6 October 2011 Omid
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22 Love Song of the International Management Consultant Roger Vickery
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22 double-length chain-link pin Ron Heard
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31 Muted Alys Jackson
31 Night Blindness Laura Kenny
37 Footling Laura Kenny
43 Sliced Bread Anne Collins
49 More than one way Claire Rosslyn Wilson
50 she remembers dying Pym Schaare
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50 Avenida de America BN Oakman
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59 Shopping Just Because Anne Collins
61 Morning, all PS Cottier
65 In Repose Claire Rosslyn Wilson
66 I Q Ron Heard
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Misc.
67 Talking Back to Dianne Arbus Donna McDonald
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