Bringing ancient disabilities and the emotions associated with them to present-day disabled people - their own stories in the past

将古代的残疾及其相关的情感带给当今的残疾人——他们过去的故事

• 批准号: 2734832
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2734832
• 关键词: Bringing; ancient; disabilities; emotions; associated

In scholarship and popular culture, the idea persists that attitudes towards disability in ancient Greece were hostile. The practice of killing disabled babies is widely proposed (Penrose 2015: 509); as is the belief that disabilities were the result of divine displeasure (Garland 2010: 59-61; Penrose 2015: 510). This pessimistic outlook has, however, been rebutted by some scholars (Rose 2003; Sneed 2018). I aim to build upon this ever-evolving Disability scholarship and, by integrating it with Emotion Studies, gain new insights into the lives of disabled people in Greece. The results of this research will be applied in an outreach setting and involve working with disabled people. I shall also examine the narrative tone and accessibility of the 'ancient disabled' in museums. The main objective is to make visible 'their stories in the past' while exploring whether emotions towards disability are cross-cultural. The first part of the project investigates how people in ancient Greece (non-disabled and disabled) felt towards disabled persons and disabilities. The research will engage with multiple sources of evidence dating to ca. 7th -4th century BC. These will include written sources (inscriptions, philosophical, literary, oratorical, medical, and legal texts) and material culture (sculpture, pots, votives, and architecture). The questions asked will explore the textual and visual language of disability, different life situations, and different treatments of disabled persons, in all its complexity. I shall build on the pioneering Unveiling Emotions project (PI Chaniotis 2012-21), which examines ancient sources not previously considered in Emotion Studies and provides new methodologies. My research will take these approaches further to incorporate disabled persons. To do so, I propose an interdisciplinary approach that has not yet been implemented in Classics - applying theories from Disability Studies and combining them with concepts from Emotion Studies. Seeing disability through the lenses of emotions will reveal the different rejection and/or acceptance strategies that the Greeks practised towards and by their disabled populace as well as how the latter's bodies and bodily experiences (their embodiment) were perceived. The second part of my project communicates the results of the first part to visitors and evaluates the presentation of ancient disability in present-day educational settings, specifically museums. It will examine the reception of ancient disability by contemporary disabled visitors and whether museums have adopted an adequately nuanced approach. I will conduct museum visits to study collections first-hand, deliver presentations on ancient disability, and organise workshops and discussions with disabled people to propose a new (better) way of displaying disability. This will build on the British Museum's 2020 study exploring the history of disability in their collection and continue previous work on the inclusion of disabled people in Classics - such as Deacy's Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum (2015) and her project on bringing myth to autistic children (2009-21). Disabled people are an under-represented and disadvantaged group in Classics (Leonard & Lovatt 2020; Sharples 2019); by working with them, the project aims to challenge the current assumptions about their place and importance in the field, and beyond academia.

在学术界和流行文化中，人们一直认为古希腊对残疾的态度是敌对的。杀死残疾婴儿的做法被广泛提出（Penrose 2015：509）;残疾是神圣不满的结果的信念也是如此（加兰2010：59-61; Penrose 2015：510）。然而，这种悲观的观点遭到了一些学者的反驳（Rose 2003; Sneed 2018）。我的目标是建立在这个不断发展的残疾奖学金，并通过将其与情感研究相结合，获得对希腊残疾人生活的新见解。这项研究的结果将应用于一个外展环境，并涉及与残疾人的工作。我还将研究博物馆中“古代残疾人”的叙述基调和可访问性。其主要目的是使“他们过去的故事”可见，同时探索对残疾的情感是否是跨文化的。该项目的第一部分调查古希腊人（非残疾人和残疾人）对残疾人和残疾人的感受。这项研究将涉及多种证据来源，可以追溯到公元前。公元前世纪。这些将包括书面来源（铭文，哲学，文学，演讲，医学和法律的文本）和物质文化（雕塑，壶，许愿和建筑）。所提出的问题将探讨残疾的文本和视觉语言，不同的生活状况，以及残疾人的不同待遇，以及其所有的复杂性。我将建立在开创性的揭开情感项目（PI Chaniotis 2012-21），该项目研究了情感研究中以前没有考虑过的古代来源，并提供了新的方法。我的研究将进一步采取这些方法来纳入残疾人。为此，我提出了一个跨学科的方法，尚未在经典实施-应用残疾研究的理论，并将它们与情感研究的概念相结合。从情感的角度看待残疾问题，将揭示希腊人对残疾人和残疾人采取的不同的拒绝和/或接受策略，以及如何看待残疾人的身体和身体体验（他们的体现）。我的项目的第二部分将第一部分的结果传达给游客，并评估在当今的教育环境中，特别是博物馆中，古代残疾的表现。它将研究当代残疾游客对古代残疾的接受情况，以及博物馆是否采取了充分细致入微的方法。我将进行博物馆参观，以研究第一手的藏品，提供关于古代残疾的演示，并组织研讨会和与残疾人的讨论，提出一个新的（更好的）展示残疾的方式。这将建立在大英博物馆的2020年研究探索残疾的历史在他们的收藏，并继续在经典作品中纳入残疾人以前的工作-如Deacy的嵌入平等和多样性的课程（2015年）和她的项目带来的神话自闭症儿童（2009-21）。残疾人是经典作品中代表性不足和弱势群体（伦纳德& Lovatt 2020; Sharples 2019）;通过与他们合作，该项目旨在挑战目前对他们在该领域和学术界之外的地位和重要性的假设。