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Disability, Chronic Illness and Debility Justice in Drama Therapy: Global- Political Perspectives
  • ISSN: 2054-7668
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Abstract

I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2016. In this episodic essay, I offer descriptions of personal encounters to contemplate specific lands and drama therapeutic landscapes. I am taking curious, meandering footsteps towards a neuroqueer, posthuman ecological drama therapy praxis. Sesame drama therapy often relies on imagination to offer itself to the conscious world, but ecosomatic experience can offer a ‘co-construct[ed]’ subjectivity, reframing Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh’ as a ‘relation of reversibility’ between ‘the seer and the seen’, the external and the internal – an ecological dynamic in which several liberatory frameworks take root.

Resumen

Recorrí el Sendero de los Apalaches en 2016. En este ensayo episódico, ofrezco descripciones de encuentros personales para contemplar tierras específicas y paisajes dramaterapéuticos. Estoy dando pasos curiosos y serpenteantes hacia una praxis de dramaterapia ecológica neuroqueer y posthumana. La dramaterapia de Sésamo a menudo depende de la imaginación para ofrecerse al mundo consciente, pero la experiencia ecosomática puede ofrecer una subjetividad ‘co-construida’, reformulando la ‘carne’ de Merleau-Ponty como una ‘relación de reversibilidad’ entre ‘lo vidente y lo visto’, lo externo y lo interno – una dinámica ecológica en la que se arraigan varios marcos liberadores.

Résumé

J’ai parcouru le sentier des Appalaches en 2016. Dans cet essai épisodique, je propose des descriptions de rencontres personnelles pour contempler des terres spécifiques et des paysages thérapeutiques dramatiques. Je fais des pas curieux et sinueux vers une pratique de thérapie dramatique écologique neuroqueer et post-humaine. La méthode de dramathérapie Sesame s’appuie souvent sur l’imagination pour s’offrir au monde conscient, mais l’expérience écosomatique peut offrir une subjectivité ‘co-construite’, recadrant la ‘chair’ de Merleau-Ponty comme une ‘relation de réversibilité’ entre ‘le voyant et le vu’, l’extérieur et l’intérieur – une dynamique écologique dans laquelle s’enracinent plusieurs cadres libérateurs.

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