Affordances of Fun: An Ethnography of Special Educators and Intellectually Disabled Adults in India.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2026.2657571

Shruti Vaidya

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Abstract

In this article, I focus on a vocational and arts center named Udaan in Pune, India that prioritizes the value of fun as its institutional goal to analyze the affordances of fun for intellectually disabled adults. Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research, I examine how special educators at Udaan created a fun ethos for intellectually disabled adults through practices, such as, teasing, going on overnight trips, and organizing music performances. While this fun ethos was classed as gendered and sometimes unsettling, it also created subversive possibilities for intellectually disabled adults, pointing to the multidimensional, complex, and contradictory nature of fun.

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乐趣的启示：印度特殊教育工作者和智障成年人的民族志。

在本文中，我将重点放在印度浦那的一个名为Udaan的职业和艺术中心，该中心将乐趣的价值作为其机构目标，以分析智力残疾成年人的乐趣。在15个月的人种学研究中，我研究了乌丹大学的特殊教育工作者是如何通过一些实践，比如戏弄、通宵旅行和组织音乐表演，为智障成年人创造一种有趣的精神气质的。虽然这种有趣的精神被归类为性别，有时令人不安，但它也为智力残疾的成年人创造了颠覆性的可能性，指出了乐趣的多维、复杂和矛盾的本质。

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