ABSTRACT
This chapter, which includes a forward-looking conclusion to our book, considers the role of networking for creating encounters that enable critical disability activism via integrated dance. It considers how networks are primarily internally focussed, with the aim of facilitating encounters between people working in a shared area of expertise or interest with a common purpose, rather than being externally focussed, like festivals. In the context of integrated dance, we analyse how a network like the African Dance Disability Network (ADDN) can facilitate encounters, both online and face to face, between African and wider global participants. It analyses the importance of shared/ing practice in the development of integrated dance and how a network can build in disability activism consciously. It then considers how the network has explored and impacted on the development of a nuanced and critical perception of intersectional citizenship that includes disabled subjects with wider publics, connecting back to festivals here. Finally, it looks forward to possible future research and work.
