”Här är vår norm, varsågod kliv in!”
Konvivialitet med exemplet dans och normbrytande funktionalitet
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https://doi.org/10.64098/SVT.2025.32.2.63036Nyckelord:
Inkludering, Funktionshinder, funktionsnedsättning, communityarbete, fenomenologiAbstract
This article aims to explore how inclusion is done and experienced in everyday life, using contemporary dance as an empirical example. Questions of functionality are relevant to all social work. However, critical social work theories and practices aimed at social justice and inclusion have rarely addressed functionality. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with leaders and dancers with and without disabilities from four dance companies. For a deeper understanding of the context, eight dance performances and three dance conferences were attended. The analysis shows that inclusion is sometimes limited to a side project and that visiting professionals may bring ableist approaches. In some cases, disabled dancers are only offered to fit into a normative choreography, with the result that their bodies are constructed as deficient and problematic. The disabled dancers are stopped by normative ideas and are thus required to make their own physical and emotional inclusion work. Consequently, they gain knowledge of how norms are reproduced in the organisation and a more reflexive approach, making them key persons in inclusion work. As allies, the able-bodied dancers also gain a critical view of bodies, functionality and their work. However, there are several instances in which the experiences of disabled dancers are employed as a starting point for exploring what happens in shared spaces. Thus, the work can be renewed and conviviality can be created. In close collaboration, mutual care is taken, communication increases, and the fear of one’s own incapacity is reduced. To conclude, the findings show that for inclusion to take place, the organisation needs to be committed to making a radical change, to see differences as a resource, and to draw on the experiences and subordinate knowledge of disabled people and their allies. This involves risk-taking but can lead to reorientation, development and new ways of being together.
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