Developing professional equality: an analysis of a social movement in the Scottish dance industry
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyses the growth of professional equality in the Scottish dance industry. It defines the growth of professional equality as a social movement driven by a group of core and peripheral individuals and organisations bound together by a shared cause. Through defining professional equality as a social movement, the article analyses the challenges, strategies and contextual factorsthat enabled the emergence of Scotland as a ‘hotspot’ for disabled dancers. The data used in this article is an autoethnographic account of professional equality coproduced by the first author (as interrogator) and the second author (as autoethnographer). Using theautoethnographic method allows us to address the development of professional equality ‘from within’ the movement and to highlight three key factors that drive the movement forward: the genesis of the professional equality movement within the dance industry (rather than outside it); informal networks, which secure information sharingand collective advocacy across the sector; and the institutional characteristics of the industry, in particular the lack of a national disability arts organisation.
Authors: Holly Patrick, Caroline Bowditch
Language: English
Topic: Arts and Performance Studies
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
Award: G5217781111
OpenAlex ID: W2016267655