Making and Gifting Belonging
Creative Arts and People with Learning Disabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Hall (0000-0002-8228-6502, University of Dundee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-262 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a44629 |
| OpenAlex | W2152568589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 35 |
Creative arts are understood to be a mediator between positions of social exclusion and of inclusion for marginalised people and places, building self-confidence and strengthening social networks. Although there are undoubted benefits from involvement in creative arts, the author critiques the assumed shift from excluded to included positions. Instead, he adopts the nuanced notion of 'belonging' to reflect the experiences of attachment and desire or yearning for recognition, of one marginal group-people with learning disabilities. Drawing on case studies of two creative arts organisations in Edinburgh, Scotland, it is argued that: first, the making of arts objects and performances provides opportunities for embodied and emotional expression, and belonging; second, the act of 'gifting' objects and performances to people in wider society transmits emotions and creativity into nondisabled spaces, with possible outcomes of connection and recognition; and third, the intimate communities and safe spaces where creative art is made provide bases for ventures into public spaces for gifting, and the generation of senses of belonging. The author concludes hopefully, arguing that through the doing of creative arts, people with learning disabilities can transcend the exclusionary landscape (albeit temporarily) and begin to reimagine and transform understandings of learning disability and difference in society
Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Political science · Social exclusion · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Researching the Social Impact of Arts and Disability
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Children’s spaces of belonging in schools
Care farms as a space of wellbeing for people with a learning disability in the United Kingdom
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Disabled people's embodied and emotional geographies of (not)belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand
Counting inclusion with Chantal Mouffe
Artistry and disability – Doing art for real? Affordances at a day activity centre with an artistic profile
Community-based arts research for people with learning disabilities
Disability, personalisation and community arts
Voices of youths on engagement in community life
Mundane powered wheelchair journeys and embodied rural disability geographies of (not) belonging
Towards a relational geography of disability
More-than-human, emergent belongings
Dance as a Powerful Tool to Advance Disability Inclusion
Thinking Intimate Geopolitics Creatively
The intra-active production of normativity and difference
Disabled people, arts festivals and emotional timescapes
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Emotional citizenry
Micro‐bodily mobilities
Cities of neurodiversity
A personal geography of care and disability
Blue space as caring space - water and the cultivation of care in social and environmental practice
Listening space
Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics
Towards an affects of care
They're part of what we are
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
Progressive localism for an ethics of care
Placing care in times of austerity
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Mental Health and Social Space
Sexing the Self
Towards Enabling Geographies
Interpreting the ‘hidden social geographies’ of mental health
The entangled geographies of social exclusion/inclusion for people with learning disabilities
Developing Independence
Alternative spaces of ‘work’ and inclusion for disabled people
Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability
Contemporary geographies of exclusion II
Contemporary geographies of exclusion III
Geographies of welfare and exclusion
Contemporary geographies of exclusion I
The concept of social exclusion and the new Durkheimian hegemony
Just Art for a Just City
Belonging and the politics of belonging
Mental health, the arts and belongings
The problematic nature of exclusion
Social geographies of learning disability
Geographies of consumption
Emotions and affect in recent human geography
An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect
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Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Searching for Belonging - An Analytical Framework
Identities and Belonging
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A Space to Care, a Space of Care
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Spatialities of 'community', power and change
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |