Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies on "Sites and Shapes of Transinstitutionalization" (Vol. 9 No. 3)

[Jay Dolmage]

Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the release of a new, guest-edited issue of the CJDS on "Sites and Shapes of Transinstitutionalization."  Please share widely!

As Guest Editors Tobin Leblanc Haley and Chelsea Temple Jones write,

"Transinstitutionalization is, admittedly, an unwieldy and contested term. Once used primarily to describe the movement of people from almshouses to state facilities (Morrissey & Goldman, 1986), from psychiatric institutions to prisons (Thakker et al., 2007), and to insufficient networks of community support (Slovenko, 2003), the word is now mobilized to capture the numerous ways in which institutionalization and institutionalizing conditions are sustained in the era of neoliberal inclusionism. It is, when used in this way, what Bonnie Burstow calls a refusal term (2013)—in this case, a rejection of the notion that the institutionalization and institutional violences against people whose lives are marked by medical pathologization have been eradicated. It is a demand for critical interrogation of education, language, psychiatric hospitals, assessment practices, warehousing, community-based care, and incarceration, among other sites, where the authors in this collection find themselves and others."


FOREWORD
Sites and Shapes of Transinstitutionalization
Tobin Leblanc Haley, Chelsea Temple Jones

ARTICLES
Commentary: Shapes and Sites of Deaf People’s Transinstitutionalization
Kristin Snoddon, Joanne Weber

Disability as a Colonial Construct: The Missing Discourse of Culture in Conceptualizations of Disabled Indigenous Children
Nicole Ineese-Nash

Women’s Forensic Mental Health Care: The Need for Gender-Based Analysis
Jessica Evans, Lucy Costa

Uncertain Subjects: Shaping Disabled Women’s Lives Through Income Support Policy
Sally A. Kimpson

Reflections on Advocating for Age-Appropriate Care in B.C.: An Intricate Dance of Crip Time and Governmental Processes
Michelle Hewitt

Tensions of Trans-institutionalization in Disabled Childhoods: A Photo Essay
Kathryn Church, Jessica Vorstermans, Kathryn Underwood

CREATIVE WORKS

... what they wanted were HOMES
Kimberlee Collins, Anne Zbitnew, Jennie Grimard

REVIEWS

Review of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Andrea J. Pitts

Review of All The Weight of our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
Nancy Marshall

Jay Dolmage, Ph.D
(my pronouns: he/him/his)
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Chair, Equity Committee of the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo
Professor of English
Associate Chair of English, UCOI
University of Waterloo
Department of English
224 Hagey Hall of Humanities Building
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x31035
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dolmage at uwaterloo.ca

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