1st Edition
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Post-Institutional
Chapter 2. Pathology
Part II: Citizenship
Chapter 3. Philosophy
Chapter 4. Discourse
Chapter 5. Control
Part III: Resistance
Chapter 6. Vulnerability
Chapter 7. Representation
Chapter 8. Ethics
Conclusions: Post-Institutional Critique
Appendix 1
References
Index
Biography
Niklas Altermark is a researcher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. His work focuses on ideas revolving around vulnerability, as a grounds for exclusion but also as a resource of critical theory, in order to understand the historical and present government of groups that are judged to be deviating. Altermark’s articles have for example appeared in Disability & Society and Review of Disability Studies – An International Journal. Lately, he has been engaged in the Swedish struggle against austerity measures striking down on people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mental health conditions.
'Making no humanist friends, Altermark's outstanding book disseminates the very ideals of citizenship that are peddled in the name of social inclusion but are revealed to be of the most pernicious kinds of thought that render people with intellectual disabilities surplus to requirements. Read this. Read it now.' - Daniel Goodley, Director of Research, The Universtiy of Sheffield
