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Review of "Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism"
No full textDoing Mad Studies: Making (Non)sense Together
No full textI am the person who is credited with having coined the term Mad Studies; here I explore how this new concept took shape
Embracing Polyphony: Voices, Improvisation, and the Hearing Voices Network
No full textThis paper theorizes at the intersection of practices of improvisation and the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) approach—two ways of being with others that embrace polyphonic identity, democratic participation, and polyculture. The paper itself is unapologetically polyvocal, moving between discussion of concepts drawn from Mad Studies and improvisation studies on one hand, and self-reflexive autoethnography on the other. Multiplicity of voice and identity and hearing voices phenomena are often interpreted as weakness, illness, or pathology as defined within bio-psychiatric conventions. In this paper I argue that hearing voices experiences and plurality are part of a broad, rich, and complex spectrum of human experience, and that inclusive frameworks such as the HVN serve to witness and support voice hearers marginalized by current systems which pathologize those outside of a narrowing range of normalcy. Safe spaces such as those created in HVN groups, like spaces for music and dance improvisation, are critical places of resistance that offer hope in the form of democratic creative action in connection with others. In this paper, I explore this terrain through autoethnographic and critical reflection
Why Mad Studies Needs Survivor Research and Survivor Research Needs Mad Studies
No full textMad Studies and survivor research are emerging fields of enquiry whose goals and boundaries are continually being shaped. This paper aims to explore intersections between the two fields and argues that fostering a stronger relationship could bring strengths to each. In section one, I outline points of intersection between Mad Studies and survivor research. In section two, I discuss why I believe that Mad Studies and survivor research need one another. Mad Studies gives survivor research a framework through a theorized radical counter-discourse to biomedical psychiatry and a model for conducting research beyond consumerist service user involvement arguments; survivor research offers Mad Studies preliminary thinking around the ethics and means of knowledge generation. In the final section, I explore our positioning within and beyond the academy. I conclude by discussing the potential benefits of a stronger relationship and posing questions for our future relationship
What Is Functional Research?: The Struggle So Far
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My Entire Life is Online: Informed Consent, Big Data, and Decolonial Knowledge
No full textResearch protocols require that informed consent is secured before a project is underway. In the collision of online and offline worlds, researchers continue to offer research participants forms of confidentiality and privacy that no longer exist. The explosion of big data and digital information has transpired with little attention to ethical considerations of consent, privacy, and confidentiality central to research ethics, as these online practices enter the terrain once the preserve of scholars. In this paper, I am concerned with the ethical, epistemological, and political implications of the reorganization of knowledge production in the age of new technologies, big data, and “informational capitalism” (Coll, 2014). Critical debates about research ethics must be harnessed to challenge the rigid, individualistic, and corporate view of consent and privacy now being fashioned by privacy experts. In particular, decolonial and Indigenous research protocols developed in response to settler colonialism exposes the dangers and possibilities of what lies ahead. As a new biopolitical force, check-box consent has become a form of conduct that elides the public–private entanglements of the Internet, new forms of surveillance/privacy, and knowledge(s) that favour austerity (for some), neo-liberalism, and securitization
Functional Research into Lonergan’s Collected Works
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Unsettling Stories: Theorizing Representational Violence and Practising Dignity
No full textIn this paper I examine how dominant social work discourses use representational violence to maintain binary helper/helped identities, often through evacuating relational or partially shared narratives that might instead be grounds for collaborative work and solidarity. I centre a practice example to interrogate the role that performative professionalism plays in representational violence. My argument is situated in the knowledge that there is no innocent ground from which to represent another’s story of violence, that representation is a process of producing the Other and mutually constitutive of the self (Macías, 2013). Drawing on Rossiter’s (1999) notion that justice requires representation, I conclude by considering the possibilities of transgressing dominant representational boundaries posed by the ethical dilemma of representing violence. I suggest that reproducing another’s experience of violence through representation might be disrupted by combining the theory of “unsettled practice,” one that denies totalizing representations, with Response-Based Practice to foreground a spectrum of representations of resistance and so centre fluid agentic being (Richardson, 2008; Richardson & Wade, 2009; Rossiter, 2011). While this paper centres a practice example, my argument is relevant to representation in research and is informed by a body of work that locates research as an important site of resistance to dominance (Brown & Strega, 2005). This paper argues that representing the violence that another has experienced through the act of critically reflecting on the re-telling of that violence may inform counter-representations that lead to social justice responses