What colour is your collar? Examining grey-collar disabled arts workers
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2023
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Rentschler, R.
Collins, A.
Williams, K.
Azmat, F.
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Paliszkiewicz, J.
Varoglu, D.
Varoglu, D.
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Source details - Title: International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 2023 / Paliszkiewicz, J., Varoglu, D. (ed./s), vol.8, pp.139-155
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Understanding disabled people as gray-collar workers who are under-paid, under-valued and under-employed is recognized as in urgent need of attention but remains unaddressed. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with disabled people, observations and document analysis, the authors argue that the disabled gray-collar workers in the performing arts provide a context and socio-cultural perspective on how gray-collar workers can attain dignity through social inclusion. Building on a novel framework of four dimensions of social inclusion theory – access, participation, representation and empowerment – the authors identify social interactions portrayed in the performing arts in order to deconstruct the processes that normalize and reinforce exclusion and inequality. The authors demonstrate how social inclusion can be “enabled” which has implications for theory, policy and practice.
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Copyright 2023 The author(s), published by Emerald Publishing