Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection
© 2019
Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, ‘push’ current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage ‘abnormality’, and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues.
This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the “violence lens,” and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.
Product Details
- World Rights
- Page Count: 416 pages
- Dimensions: 6.0in x 1.0in x 9.0in
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Reviews
"Madness, Violence, and Power sets new lines of inquiry for mad studies and critical disability studies. Engaging with complex understandings of violence with sophistication, this collection is unique in its contributions by survivors."
Linda Steele, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia"Madness, Violence, and Power is a robust and rigorous collection that provides an essential resource for readers wishing to identify the key literature on the topic of madness and violence. The book is greatly enhanced by the use of research-based chapters and narratives of lived experience."
Kathleen Kendall, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton -
Author Information
Andrea Daley is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Renison University College (affiliated with University of Waterloo).
Lucy Costa is Deputy Executive Director of The Empowerment Council, an independent service user rights-based organization in Toronto, Canada.
Peter Beresford is a professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex, emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University London, and co-chair of Shaping Our Lives, a UK organization and network of user-led groups, service users, and people with disabilities. -
Table of contents
Foreword
Robert WhitakerIntroduction
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter BeresfordPART I: Dispatches on Violence
1. The Risk of Violence
Anonymous Female
2. A Personal Account of Mental Distress in Motherhood
Anonymous
3. Patient Engagement and the Process of Self-Empowerment in Secure and Forensic Psychiatric Settings in the UK
Sarah Markham
4. The Opposite of Violence
Carly ZwarensteinPART II: Prevailing Problems
5. Enacting Violence and Care: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Claims and Resistance
Christopher Van Veen, Katherine Teghtsoonian and Marina Morrow
6. Slow Death through Evidence-Based Research
Jijian Voronka
7. Changing Directions or Staying the Course? Recovery, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada’s Mental Health Strategy
Merrick Pilling
8. Homage to Spencer: The Politics of “Treatment” and “Choice” in Neoliberal Times
Meghann O’Leary and Liat Ben-Moshe
9. Indigenizing the Narrative: A Conversation on ODSP Assessments
Priya Raju and Nicole Penak
10. Madness, Violence and Media
Brigit McWadePART III: Law as Violence
11. Contemporary Forms of Legislative Imprisonment and Colonial Violence in Forensic Mental Health
Ameil J. Joseph
12. The (Un)Writing of Risk on my Mad Pregnant Body: A Mad Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Social Reproduction and Epistemic Violence Under Neoliberalism
Tobin Leblanc Haley
13. Uncovering Law’s Multiple Violences at the Inquest into the Death of Ashley Smith
C. Tess Sheldon, Karen R. Spector, and Mary Birdsell
14. Recounting Huronia: A Reflection on Legal Discourse and the Weight of Injustice
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
15. Madding the Muslim Terrorist: Orientalist Psychology in Canada’s ‘War on Terror’
Azeezah KanjiPART IV: Geographies of Violence
16. Coercive Practices in Mental Health Services: Stories of Recalcitrance, Resistance and Legitimation
Mick McKeown, Amy Scholes, Fiona Jones, and Will Aindow
17. Institutional Oppression and Violence as Self-Defence
Janet Lee-Evoy
18. “Gravity and Grace”: Acknowledging Restraint and Seclusion as Violence
Kevin Reel
19. Mad, Bad and Stuck in the ‘Hole’: Carceral Segregation as Slow Violence
Jennifer M. Kilty and Sandra Lehalle
20. Madness and Gentrification on Queen West: Violence and the Transformations of Parkdale and the Queen Street Site
Ben LosmanConclusion
Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Peter BeresfordGlossary of Terms
References
Index
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Subjects and Courses