This paper explores the politics of resilience and recovery narratives by bringing critical
ethnography and auto-ethnographic methods to bear on my own experiences with …

The clinical encounter begins with presentation of an illness experience; but throughout that
encounter, something else is constructed from it–a symptom. The symptom is a particular …

Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this
book interrogates law's complicity in the debilitation of disabled people. In a post …

“Disabling” forensic detention involves challenging the self-evidence of the meaning of
disability in forensic mental health law, and in turn illuminating the significance of this …

In this essay, I argue that certain injustices faced by mentally disabled persons are epistemic
injustices by drawing upon epistemic injustice literature, especially as it is developed by …

This article seeks to enhance criminology's understanding of the disability group home as a
targeted site for confining and regulating disabled bodies. In particular, it seeks to extend …

This chapter discusses child psychiatrisation as a form of oppression against children. Using
a mad studies framing it deconstructs this oppression, including providing an analysis of …

This paper intervenes on the contemporary Canadian discourse that equates bourgeois self-
making practices of progressive urban subjects with moves towards genuine spatial justice …

The study of transinstitutionalization necessarily varies by context. In this issue we guard
against misconceptions that institutionalization is an action that took place in the past, whose …

This article argues that civil mental health laws operate to constrict how people think,
understand, and speak about psychosocial disability, madness, and mental distress. It does …