Vital affordances, occupying niches
An ecological approach to disability and performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15081044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arseli Dokumaci (0000-0003-4698-0414, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-412 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2017.1326808 |
| OpenAlex | W2654260024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article proposes a new conceptual approach to disability and performance through a contribution that comes entirely from outside the disciplines; a re-theorisation of Gibson’s [1979. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates] theory of affordances. Drawing on three visual ethnographies with differently disabled individuals, and building upon my previous consideration of performance as ‘affordance creation’ in itself [Dokumaci, A. 2013. “On Falling Ill.” Performance Research 18 (4): 107–115], the article conceptualises affordances as a form of micro-activism – one that can allow us to unpack the entanglements of disability, performance, and matter. Putting Gibson’s theory in conversation with Canguilhem’s philosophy of life, it proposes the concept ‘vital affordances’ as a new way to think through this micro-activism, and the way disabled individuals might transform the world and its very materiality through the most mundane of their performances
Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Conversation · Ecological psychology · Ecological validity · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Perception · Sociology · Communication · Disability Rights and Representation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Psychology
Affective intimacies
The Forgotten Legacy of Schön
A Theory of Microactivist Affordances
Imaginative play for a predictive spectator
Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology
Towards an ecological social science? On introducing ‘social affordances’ to (some) social theory
Trans Milieus
Redefining disability and pathology as both developmental and relational
E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought
Spaced Apart
Affording mobility
Multimorbidity as chronic crisis
Contracolonizar o corpo
Modes of affordance
A High-Risk Body for Whom? On Fat, Risk, Recognition and Reclamation in Restorying Reproductive Care through Digital Storytelling
The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern
Being happy
Chronic pain, choreography and performance
Lived time and the affordances of clinical research participation
Strawberry feel forever
Twenty-eight injections, two visits, one meeting
People as Affordances
Aleijar as antropologias a partir das mediações da deficiência
Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity
The Politics of Disability Performativity
The normal and the pathological
Disability Theory
Material Feminisms
Introducing the New Materialisms
Disability in Theory
The Disability Studies Reader
An Ontology of Affordances
Social Affordances and Interaction II
Project Re•Vision
Disability studies after the ontological turn
Design, disability and play
Vital Wheels
An inclusive outdoors? Disabled people’s experiences of countryside leisure services
Affordances and the Body
Misfits
On Falling III
Rethinking Agency
Animacies
The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain
The Perception of the Environment
Health
Bodies, Technologies and Action Possibilities
Materials against materiality
On the Normal and the Pathological
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |