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Social Exclusion in a Mental Health Court?
No full textThis article is based on a study, inspired by institutional ethnographic methods, of a mental health court (MHC) situated in Montréal, Canada. The focus of this article is on the qualitative results of the project, namely, the perceptions and experiences of accused (N=20) who were involved in the court as well as key actors (N=10) who make up the multidisciplinary team. In addition, findings from participant observation and a quantitative review of court files are drawn upon to flesh out the data. We argue that MHCs promote a special form of social exclusion based on othering that considers accused to be deviant, dangerous, or fragile. In an effort to control risk, MHCs target risky behaviours and reward individual mobilization efforts through their promotion of autonomy and self-regulation and their emphasis on psychiatric interventions. These new “socio-medico-juridical practices” bridge two systems of domination, psychiatry and the law, in an effort to “de-marginalize” mentally ill accused along three axes of intervention —juridical, therapeutic, and individualization and responsibilization efforts
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THE DICTIONARY OF CANADIANISMS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES, SECOND EDITION AND REGIONAL VARIATION: THE COMPLEX CASE OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Get PDFThis short and informal account speaks briefly to the problem of regionalisms in the context of Canadian English as it relates to the forthcoming Second Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, DCHP-2, which I have had the honour to lead since its inception in March 2006. I will present some data and statistics, yet my conclusions will be tentative and will end with a plea for assistance. At the time of writing, DCHP-2 is targeted for completion in 2016 in open access format (Dollinger et al. forthc.). A digital edition of the first edition (Avis, Crate, Drysdale, Leechman, Scargill and Lovell 1967) is now available as DCHP-1 Online (Dollinger, Brinton and Fee 2013)
ID Politics: The Violence of Modernity
No full textScholarship in feminism, anticolonialism, Disability and Mad studies, have repositioned storytelling as instructive to the present and to the ethics of care. Emplotted with time and space, like the acts and lives of others, stories make discernible those everyday encounters, sites of practices, and material conditions that usher power and pain. They destabilize essentialism, so, too, the asymmetries that ensue, and are therefore pivotal in the politics toward self-definition. It has even been argued that the concept of the story garners much of the attention once assigned to that of identity. But here, I juxtapose, I entwine, no, I exbody competing multivalent social scripts, each a verse in itself, to nuance—albeit creatively—the story in this current age of governmentality and concomitant surveillance technologies. Paying homage to Patricia Hill Collins, I evoke intersectionality and endeavour to bring us back to identity politics … analytically