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，人们坚持认为古希腊对待残疾的态度是敌对的。杀害残疾婴儿的做法被广泛提出(PenRose 2015：509)；因为人们相信残疾是上帝不高兴的结果(Garland 2010：59-61；PenRose 2015：510)。然而，这种悲观的前景已经被一些学者驳斥(Rose 2003；Snede 2018)。我的目标是在不断发展的残疾奖学金的基础上，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外展环境，并涉及残疾人工作。我还将研究博物馆中“古代残障人士”的叙事基调和可及性。主要目标是让人们看到他们过去的故事，同时探索对残疾的情感是否具有跨文化特征。该项目的第一部分调查了古希腊人(非残疾人和残疾人)对残疾人和残疾人的看法。这项研究将涉及公元前7世纪至4世纪的多个证据来源。这些将包括书面来源(铭文、哲学、文学、演讲、医学和法律文本)和物质文化(雕塑、锅、誓词和建筑)。提出的问题将探索残疾的文字和视觉语言，不同的生活状况，以及对残疾人的不同治疗，以及其所有的复杂性。我将在开创性的揭示情绪项目(PiChaniotis 2012-21)的基础上再接再厉，该项目考察了以前在情绪研究中没有考虑的古代来源，并提供了新的方法。我的研究将进一步采用这些方法，将残疾人纳入其中。为此，我提出了一种尚未在经典著作中实施的跨学科方法--应用残疾研究的理论，并将它们与情绪研究的概念相结合。通过情感的镜头来看待残疾，将揭示希腊人对残疾人群和他们的残疾人群所采取的不同的拒绝和/或接受策略，以及后者的身体和身体经历(他们的化身)是如何被感知的。我的项目的第二部分向参观者传达了第一部分的结果，并评估了古代残疾在当今教育环境中的呈现，特别是博物馆。它将审查当代残疾参观者接受古代残疾的情况，以及博物馆是否采取了足够细微的方法。我将参观博物馆，第一手研究收藏品，发表关于古代残疾的演讲，并组织研讨会和与残疾人讨论，提出一种新的(更好的)展示残疾的方式。这将建立在大英博物馆2020年探索其藏品中残疾历史的研究基础上，并继续之前在经典作品中纳入残疾人的工作--例如Deacy在课程中嵌入平等和多样性(2015)，以及她将神话带给自闭症儿童的项目(2009-21)。残疾人是经典著作中代表性不足的弱势群体(Leonard&Lovatt 2020；Sharples 2019)；通过与他们合作，该项目旨在挑战目前关于他们在该领域和学术界以外的地位和重要性的假设。