Descripción del proyecto
Exploración de nuevas vías para proteger el derecho a la cultura de las personas con discapacidad
Una quinta parte de la población de la Unión Europea (UE) sufre algún tipo de discapacidad. Garantizar que las personas con discapacidad tengan acceso a la cultura, ya sea como consumidores o como contribuyentes aficionados o profesionales, es esencial para crear una sociedad integradora. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos DANCING investigará en qué medida la protección del derecho a formar parte de la cultura y la promoción de la diversidad cultural se cruzan y se complementan entre sí en el ordenamiento jurídico de la UE. Utilizará una combinación de investigación jurídica, empírica y basada en las artes en busca de tres objetivos complementarios, respectivamente: vivencial, normativo y teórico. El proyecto identificará y categorizará las barreras y los factores facilitadores de la participación cultural que experimentan las personas discapacitadas y en qué medida afectan al ámbito cultural más global. También ofrecerá una exploración normativa sobre la manera en que la UE puede luchar contra la discriminación, garantizar la accesibilidad en las actividades culturales, promover la identidad de los discapacitados y lograr la diversidad cultural.
Objetivo
The right of people with disabilities to participate in cultural life - which encompasses the rights of access to, and to be involved in cultural activities, as well as the recognition of disability identities, such as Deaf culture – has been for long denied. The cultural exclusion of disabled people has engendered their marginalisation. It has also entailed a loss for society as a whole, because of the lack of cultural diversity resulting from an inaccessible and exclusionary cultural realm. DANCING will investigate the extent to which the protection of the right to take part in culture of people with disabilities and the promotion of cultural diversity intersect and complement each other in the European Union (EU) legal order. It will disrupt the conventional approach adopted by EU law scholarship by using a combination of legal, empirical and arts-based research to pursue three complementary objectives, experiential, normative and theoretical respectively. First, it will identify and categorise barriers and facilitators to cultural participation experienced by disabled people and how they affect the wider cultural domain. Secondly, it will provide a normative exploration of how the EU has used and can use its competence to combat discrimination and its supporting competence on cultural matters, in synergy with its wide internal market powers, to ensure the accessibility of cultural activities, to promote disability identities, while achieving cultural diversity. In doing so, it will bridge, in an unprecedented way, the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Thirdly, it will advance the understanding of the legal concept of cultural diversity, which stems from the intersection of different sources of law, and will propose a new theorization of the promotion of cultural diversity within the EU legal order.
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
W23 Maynooth
Irlanda