Canadian Journal of Disability Studies | |
Institutional Survivorship: Abandonment and the âMachinery of the Establishmentâ | |
Madeline Burghardt1  | |
[1] York University | |
关键词: Institutionalization, survivors, abandonment, capitalism, conditions of possibility; | |
DOI : 10.15353/cjds.v6i3.368 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Canadian Disability Studies Association | |
【 摘 要 】
Institutions are a central and painful feature in the historical record of the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities in Canada. To date, scholarly work has provided a robust understanding of the multiple intersecting factors and âpolitical rationalitiesâ (Chapman, 2014) that have contributed to institutionsâ development, including their relationship with capitalismâs âexploitative social relations of production and consumptionâ (Erevelles, 2014, para. 6). Accounts from institutional survivors that describe the direct and lived experience of institutionalization have begun to emerge in Canadian disability studies and historical canons. Based on research that examined the impact of institutionalization on families, this paper draws from survivor narratives to explore the alienation and abandonment that survivors experienced as a result of having been institutionalized. It interrogates the connection between survivorsâ experiences and the function of their alienation in the workings of a capitalist system. Additionally, this paper addresses some of the historical, social and political conditions of the time and place of concern (post World War II Ontario), and discusses how those conditions created a discourse of persuasion in the institutionalization of children with intellectual disabilities.Â
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