The post-institutional era : visions of history in research on intellectual disability
(2017) In Disability and Society 32(9). p.1315-1332- Abstract
In this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific research and popular discourse. In particular, I discuss the construction of a narrative break between a past of institutionalisation and the present policies of citizenship. By drawing on how postcolonial theorists criticise common ideas about decolonisation, I argue that this narrative impedes our appreciation of how power has transformed, rather than disappeared, after deinstitutionalisation. Instead, I propose ‘post-institutionalisation’ as a name for the present era of intellectual disability politics, suggesting that we need to attend to continuities and discontinuities of how the group is governed; how paternalism... (More)
In this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific research and popular discourse. In particular, I discuss the construction of a narrative break between a past of institutionalisation and the present policies of citizenship. By drawing on how postcolonial theorists criticise common ideas about decolonisation, I argue that this narrative impedes our appreciation of how power has transformed, rather than disappeared, after deinstitutionalisation. Instead, I propose ‘post-institutionalisation’ as a name for the present era of intellectual disability politics, suggesting that we need to attend to continuities and discontinuities of how the group is governed; how paternalism lives on after deinstitutionalisation and how the goals of citizenship inclusion give rise to new technologies of government. I conclude the article by discussing the necessity and the dangers of involving people with intellectual disabilities in the analysis of post-institutional government.
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- author
- Altermark, Niklas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-10-21
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- deinstitutionalisation, disability studies, Intellectual disability, postcolonial theory, Spivak
- in
- Disability and Society
- volume
- 32
- issue
- 9
- pages
- 1315 - 1332
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- wos:000413900500003
- scopus:85019250182
- ISSN
- 0968-7599
- DOI
- 10.1080/09687599.2017.1322497
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 8356de72-0e0e-4cfe-8498-4f942b99af95
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- 2017-05-30 08:15:55
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