Rupturing Concepts of Disability and Inclusion

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CONCEIVING A QUILT: CREATING A METHOD creativity to move beyond methodological constraints and orthodoxies uncritically applied in this field in the past. Whilst contributions from positivism, interpretivism, critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism and feminist theory cannot be denied as strands of prefigurement, the methodological process to conceptually refigure the notion of inclusion as ethically signified for people with intellectual disability requires similar skill and sensibility to those of the imaginative quiltmaker, who dares to perform, and then create, the ‘what if’ quilt. I have conceived that the quilt being constructed in this research is an adaptation of an Amish Bar quilt, traditionally featuring seven or nine vertical bars, surrounded by a thin border before featuring a larger external border (See Figure 1). This Figure 1. An Amish 7/9 Bar Quilt The book it came from is: Hughes, R. 1994. Amish: The Art of the Quilt. London: Phaidon Press. 156 33
CHAPTER 2 research quilt will feature six bars - three sets of two bars. These represent various aspects of inclusion named as Profound Exclusion, Technical Inclusion and Legislative Inclusion, and the shadow-tones representing ambivalences found in each construction. The six bars are defined, surrounded and contained by the patriarchal and kyriarchal Selvedges of Definition. A small surrounding border representing ‘A Transformatory Ethic of Inclusion’, an instrument of rupture to the patriarchal boundedness of the bars, links the external fabric constituting Ethical Inclusion by rupturing the Selvedges of Definition. (See Figure 2) The piecing and design of a quilt is imagined and constructed by an individual, while the finishing is often a corporate activity when individuals gather in groups for the pleasures and mutual support of the ‘quilting bee’. 157 So it is with the presentation of this research. I imagine the piecing and design to form the pattern of the patchwork surface of the top layer. The rest of the research is committed to this activity, which will include examining the structure of socio-ethical fabrics of the Judeo-Christian context in which inclusion is embedded. However, the scope of this research is also limited to the preparation of the top layer. The quilting, as embellishment and counterpoint, must be a communal activity as the quilt is subjected to the scrutinies of other interested parties. Therefore, this work will conclude as an unfinished quilt, ready for corporate involvement and engagement, both for finishing and usefulness. 34 Figure 2: A Metaphorical Quilt – ‘A Transformatory Ethic of Inclusion’ .158
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DEDICATIONS This book is dedicated
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