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Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions book cover

1st Edition

Institutional Violence and Disability Punishing Conditions

By Kate Rossiter, Jen Rinaldi Copyright 2019
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge
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"This was several times with that damn cribbage board. I hate cribbage boards to this very day. They never beat us on the arms or legs or stuff, it was always on the bottom of the feet, I couldn't figure it out." Brian L., Huronia Regional Centre Survivor Over the past two decades, the public has borne　witness to ongoing revelations　of　shocking, intense, and even sadistic forms of... Read more

Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Institutional Cases & the Conditions for Moral Abdication; Chapter 3: The Institutional Violence Continuum; Chapter 4: Thoughtlessness & Violence as Work Culture; Chapter 5: Quantifying & Re-Inscribing Violence; Chapter 6: Embedded Trauma & Embodied Resistance; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Bibliography





　

Biography

Kate Rossiter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford campus, and is the Principal of "Recounting Huronia: An Arts-Based Participatory Research Project." Kate’s background combines the critical social scientific study of public health and embodiment with theatre and performance studies. Kate lives in Brantford, Ontario with her partner and two children.





Jen Rinaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her research takes up how non-normative—particularly cripped, Mad, fat, and queer—bodies are read, marked, and produced in and through socio-legal discourse. She explores these themes using collaborative and narrative-based methodologies and community arts praxis. Jen lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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