Racing Madness: The Terrorizing Madness of the Post-9/11 Terrorist Body

Patel, Shaista

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“…This problematic entails a mutually reinforcing relationship between the material violence that is immanent in denial of legal personhood under civil mental health laws and the symbolic violence of psychiatry and the mental health paradigm. It also connects to scholarship and debates about the deployment of medico-legal and psychiatric epistemologies in ways that silence the political resistance and claims of marginalised groups at the intersections of different coercive legal frameworks, such as people in immigration detention (Joseph 2016) and incarcerated people labelled as 'mad Muslim terrorists' (Patel 2014).…”

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Beaupert

2018

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Beaupert

2018

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“…I posit here that this matters not only for the ongoing control of criminalized people designated as disabled, but also for our ability to read this control as an injustice. Forensic detention and its material effects might not be perceived as harms or injustices because not only are disabled bodies viewed as less worthy of sympathy (Patel, 2014), but specifically there is the additional affective dimension of fear related to associations between the “danger”, “risk” and disability. The focus on judging forensic detention against liberal notions of legality locates detention per se beyond legal accountability (Veitch, 2007) in the double sense of being lawful and “good” (see similarly Steele, 2014a).…”

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Disabling forensic mental health detention: The carcerality of the disabled body

Steele

2016

Punishment & Society

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“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 meaning to the possibility and permissibility of forensic detention and other interventions in the bodies of people designated with cognitive impairments and psychosocial disabilities (“people designated as disabled”). I apply this approach to an examination of a case study of one individual subjected to forensic detention: an Indigenous Australian woman with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Roseanne Fulton. By examining Fulton’s forensic detention, in the context of her earlier life circumstances and her subsequent journey through various “alternatives” to this forensic detention I show the interrelationships of forensic detention with a range of legal options for punishing, regulating and intervening in designated as disabled bodies and situate these interrelationships in a broader range of issues of violence, institutional failure, social disadvantage, settler colonialism, and ableism. My central argument is that the ongoing subjection of Fulton to a range of forms of control across her life suggest that the possibility of forensic detention and other forms of punishment of people designated as disabled is not attached to a particular material architectural space or a particular court order, but instead attaches to these individuals’ bodies via medico-legal designations as disabled and travels with these individuals through time and space. I propose that more directly it is the disabled body that is the space of punishment and the disabled body makes material architectural spaces punitive. A “reform”, indeed even an “abolition”, approach focused on material architectural spaces of disabled punishment will not interrupt the ongoing processes of control of criminalized people designated as disabled if it does not also acknowledge and challenge the temporal and carnal logics underpinning the carcerality of the disabled body itself.

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“…Indeed, in the post 9/11 world, western commentators typically depict the Muslim East as a space of torturous institutional practices, somewhat ironically. 67 It is in 'less civilised' countries (such as the Islamic state and often Russia) that outdated prison conditions are meant to prevail, not in the 'civilised' west. 68 Pain occupies a precarious position in the emotional economies of western societies.…”

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Miller¹

2016

A History of Force Feeding

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, a group of detainees at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, Cuba, went on hunger strike. At the height of their protest, 106 individuals were refusing to eat. For detainees incarcerated for over a decade without charge or trial, food refusal offered a potent way to rebel. Having been stripped of their capacity for political communication and placed in an institution that severely restricted personal freedom, the simple act of not eating allowed detainees to reassert control over their bodies. It granted autonomy and self-determination, posing a challenge to Guantánamo's disciplinary ethos. These hunger strikes were also highly political. By rejecting food, detainees openly defi ed the authority of the American government which had incarcerated them. They used their bodies as weapons, the last remaining resource available for remonstrating against adverse institutional conditions. 1 In turn, the newsworthy nature of these protests drew international attention to allegations of institutional torture and violence seemingly supported by the Obama administration. The protestors knew that hunger strikes attract worldwide interest from journalists, human rights activists, politicians, ethicists, and doctors. They had posed a formidable moral question: Is it acceptable to allow a prisoner to starve to death? Corpses present problems. A dead hunger striker can offer evidence of deplorable prison conditions. A death also goes some way towards validating dissident political perspectives. These, after all, had been worth dying for. Surely they must have some value? In the event of a death, less sympathetic

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Racing Madness: The Terrorizing Madness of the Post-9/11 Terrorist Body

Cited by 9 publications

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Disabling forensic mental health detention: The carcerality of the disabled body

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