Dancing Right(s): Dance, Disability and Legal Empowerment in Post-War Sri Lanka
Dancing Right(s): Dance, Disability and Legal Empowerment in Post-War Sri Lanka
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舞蹈权利：战后斯里兰卡的舞蹈、残疾和法律赋权
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10.3366/drs.2020.0319
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2020
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0.3
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H. Blades
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H. Blades
斯里兰卡漫长的内战(1983-2009年)造成了大规模的个人、身体和社会创伤和大量死亡。此外，许多人因战争而致残。斯里兰卡的残疾人经常被边缘化，被排除在公共领域之外。虽然有来自国家和非政府组织的支持残疾人的倡议，但支持通常采用以慈善为基础的方法，这种方法被批评为助长了边缘化和残疾人对他人的依赖。表演赋权(2016-18年)是一个研究项目，旨在探讨将舞蹈讲习班与人权教育相结合是否可以为斯里兰卡的残疾人带来更大的法律赋权。在这篇文章中，我回顾了参与该项目的五名泰米尔妇女的经历，概述了她们如何获得自信和权利意识，使她们能够自我宣传并改变日常生活，表明法律赋权增加了。我认为，这种变化在一定程度上是由于他们在研讨会上经历的不同形式的表演，这些表演使他们能够从日常生活中获得一系列的交通工具。
Sri Lanka's long civil war (1983–2009) resulted in large-scale personal, physical and social trauma and a high number of deaths. Furthermore, many people became disabled due to the war. Disabled people in Sri Lanka have often been marginalized and excluded from the public sphere. Whilst there are initiatives to support disabled people from both the State and Non-Governmental Organisations, support often adopts a charity-based approach which has been criticised for contributing to marginalisation and the dependency of disabled people on others. Performing Empowerment (2016–18) was a research project that responded to this context by seeking to examine whether combining dance workshops with human rights education might lead to greater legal empowerment for disabled people in Sri Lanka. In this paper, I reflect on the experiences of five Tamil women who took part in the project, outlining how they gained confidence and rights awareness which enabled them to self-advocate and make changes to their everyday lives, demonstrating increased legal empowerment. I argue that this change arose in part through different forms of performance that they experienced within the workshops, which enabled a series of transportations from their daily lives.