TY - JOUR AU - Shaw, Carolyn May PY - 2022/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - An Autoethnographic Journey in Developing Post-Ableist Music Therapy JF - Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy JA - Voices VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Research DO - 10.15845/voices.v22i1.3314 UR - https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314 SP - AB - <p>This paper describes my journey in developing Post-Ableist Music Therapy and offers vignettes of its use in practice. In the style of an autoethnography, it recounts the way I began actively to address the ableism that was uncovered during the analysis process of my PhD research: ‘Developing Post-Ableist Music Therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability’(<a href="https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314/3406#S2019">Shaw, 2019</a>). I set about developing an ethic for practice that would address ableism by using the Foucauldian tool of creating the self as a work of art. I engaged in a creative process as a way to defamiliarise and reconceptualise practice. Post-Ableist Music Therapy was developed and extended the relational ethic beyond what was present in the practice studied, by drawing on aspects of posthumanism (valuing interdependence;&nbsp;<a href="https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314/3406#BR2013">Braidotti, 2013</a>), agonistic pluralism (<a href="https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314/3406#C2001">Chambers, 2001</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314/3406#C2002">Cloyes, 2002</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3314/3406#M2016">Mouffe, 2016</a>), and increasing the incorporation of disability studies. Posthumanism was used as a foundation for PAMT (due to the ableist tendencies of humanism), which differs to current music therapy orientations. Therefore, PAMT is offered as an alternative lens in the critical orientations’ apparatus: a social justice practice that is not based on empowerment and humanism, but instead on agonism and posthumanism.</p> ER -