Rupturing Concepts of Disability and Inclusion

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PART TWO: CONFIGURING THE WEAVE OF THE FRAGMENTS OF INCLUSION The quiltmaker can approach a project in two ways. One way is to be committed or attracted to a particular master design or meta-narrative, and then to find the appropriate fabrics to enhance and serve the design’s purpose. Therefore, the design, as a chosen preference of the maker, is the dictating force of the textual formation, which creatively constructs the texts to defend the principles within the design. The other way is to select fragments of fabrics for their inherent value, worth and symbolic representation, and to then use a design that captures and makes full significance of the fragments’ contextual importance. This research adopts both approaches, but gives significant attention to the latter approach to construct a quilt which reflects a complex conceptualisation of the ethical significance of inclusion for people with intellectual disability. I contend that the fragments, which will constitute three apparent socio-ethical fabrics of inclusion – Profound Exclusion, Technical Inclusion, and Legislative Inclusion – are configured by particular threads. I claim, then, that these are fragments of ethical melange, made of fabrics configured by the warps of theories, definitions, assumptions and understandings of disability, interlaced with the wefts of values, beliefs and perceptual framings of social practices. However, I also assert that the foundational ethical significance cannot be constructed and situated outside of the texture like an overlaid pattern. It is present within the weave of diverse strands and mingled colours. As well, the ethical significance is contained within intentional borders presenting as Selvedges of Definition, which, I have asserted, are constructed from matrices of patriarchal philosophy and theology. Therefore, it is in the holes of the weave that ethical significance is present, yet calendered, that is, influencing, yet concealed. This research contends that the configuration of the weave, which includes the holes between the threads, propones and supports expressions of an Ethic of Normalcy and an Ethic of Anomaly. Part Two outlines meaningful components which constitute three fragments of the fabrics of inclusion. Chapter Three highlights one set of ‘Threads of Configuration’, by exploring the warps of theories, definitions, assumptions and understandings of disability. Chapter Four highlights another set of threads by exploring the wefts of values, beliefs and perceptual framings of social practices of disability services with which the warps are interlaced. Chapter Five, ‘Wiping Away The Calendering For Ethical Understanding’ explores the constructions of the Selvedges of Definition which bind an Ethic of Normalcy and an Ethic of Anomaly. Figure Three diagrammatically outlines the weave of the fragments of the fabrics of inclusion. 37
PART 2 ‘Threads of Configuration - 1’ Warps of theories, definitions, assumptions and understandings of disability 38 Selvedges of Definition ‘Threads of Configuration - 2’ Wefts of values, beliefs and perceptual framings of social practices of disability. ‘Wiping the Calendering’ An Ethic of Normalcy and An Ethic of Anomaly present in the spaces between the Warps and the Wefts, and bounded by the Selvedges of Definition. Figure 3. The weave of the fragments of the fabrics of inclusion.
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DEDICATIONS This book is dedicated
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