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Conclusion: Assembling the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Marchella Ward
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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In the Conclusion to this book, we move from looking back to assembling a future. This chapter shows that the metaphorical uses of disability that have been examined throughout the book remain with us in the present. And it attempts to set out some approaches towards ending this practice of making meaning out of bodies. This will require, the conclusion argues, more than a commitment to neoliberal diversity initiatives and to inclusion (though inclusion remains nonetheless urgent) – it will require us to decolonise the way that we look, and to disassemble the classical tradition in favour of models that insist on the receiver’s accountability. Maria Oshodi’s 1992 play Hound is an important text in this chapter, which looks beyond the line, or inheritance model of classical reception to the example of Stacey Park Milbern’s ‘crip ancestorship’ model. Ultimately, the conclusion is invested in the core questions of this book: what kind of an ancient world would we need to imagine, who would we need to take as our ancestors, and how might we organise the models that figure our relationship with it and them, in order for a more equal future to become our reality?

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Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back
, pp. 234 - 251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion: Assembling the Future
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.008
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  • Conclusion: Assembling the Future
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.008
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  • Conclusion: Assembling the Future
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.008
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