Opening Ontario’s “Saddest Chapter”: A Social History of Huronia Regional Centre

Rossiter, Kate; Clarkson, Annalise

doi:10.15353/cjds.v2i3.99

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“…Opened in 1876 in Orillia, Ontario, the HRC warehoused thousands during its tenure as a custodial institution. Through this time, multiple alarms were sounded about the profound abuse and neglect occurring at HRC (for a full account see Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013). Following the institution's closure in 2009, horrifying accounts of violence at HRC began to surface.…”

Section: Setting the Stage: Locating Ourselvesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recounting Huronia Faithfully: Attenuating Our Methodology to the “Fabulation” of Truths-Telling

Halifax

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Rinaldi

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Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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If telling the truth is considered vital to research methodology, what happens in methodological spaces where “telling the truth” is futile? In this article, we examine the limitations, possibility, and even desirability of normative forms of empirically verifiable truth-telling and the potentialities for storied or fabulated truths with regard to knowledges that have historically been dismissed by their audiences as unreliable and even deceptive. To do so, we draw from critical theory, and Deleuzian theory in particular, to offer a detailed theoretical framework for understanding the notion of fabulated truth. We then turn to our own research to describe a project that embraced the potential of fabulation as a deeply generative methodological practice in regard to better understanding experiences of trauma. This project, which involved working alongside people with intellectual disabilities who have survived institutional incarceration, used fluid arts-based methods to help engage the affective force of trauma to story multiple truths about an otherwise unspeakable history.

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Section: Setting the Stage: Locating Ourselvesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recounting Huronia Faithfully: Attenuating Our Methodology to the “Fabulation” of Truths-Telling

Halifax

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Rinaldi

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“…The institutional use of sexual and geographic segregation (Radford & Brown, 2015), forced sterilization (Reaume, 2000), and targeting youth admission to institutions 6 (MacMurchy, 1914;McLaren, 1990) were used to prohibit the sexuality and reproductive justice of people labelled with disabilities (Williston, 1971, p. 22). At the same time, institutional environments facilitated wide-scale sexual abuse (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013;Rossiter & Rinaldi, 2018). As Shakespeare et al (1996) explain, "disabled people's right to sexual expression on the one hand, and to freedom from sexual abuse, on the other hand are not assured in the majority of residential settings" (p.…”

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“…Overcrowding, underfunding and lack of staff resulted in leaking roofs, lack of access to sanitation such as washrooms and showers, and holes in floors, roofs and walls (Berton, 1959) . Institutionalized people were force-fed, ridiculed, and given no autonomy -decisions such as what they ate, who their care provider would be, when they would bathe and how they would spend their time were forced upon them (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013).…”

Section: Developmental Services Systemmentioning

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“…for residents yet was used to replace the need for staff. Unpaid residents completed the laundry and kitchen tasks, general household duties and manual labour (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013). Thus, perpetual gross underfunding undermined any benevolent intentions of institutions and actively harmed the welfare and health of residents (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013).…”

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“…Unpaid residents completed the laundry and kitchen tasks, general household duties and manual labour (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013). Thus, perpetual gross underfunding undermined any benevolent intentions of institutions and actively harmed the welfare and health of residents (Rossiter & Clarkson, 2013). "Patient" labour emerged out of the tradition of incarcerated forced labour that was first used in prisons, such as the construction of the Kingston penitentiary by prisoners in the 1830s (McCoy, 2012).…”

Section: Developmental Services Systemmentioning

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This research investigates access to sexuality for disabled people in Ontario. To understand sexual access, this research uses frameworks of disability justice and critical carceral studies to make explicit the pervasive the ongoing institutionalization of disabled people. Critically analyzing transinstitutionalization policy reveals surveillance, spatial regulation, and the criminalization of sex work as prohibitive barriers in disabled people's realization of their sexual desires. The City of Ottawa serves as a case study to interrogate the municipal regulation of sexuality through Minimum Separation Distance bylaws. The findings of this study illustrate the shared use of policy tools to invisibilize disabled people and sex workers through spatial regulation and segregation. These shared policy tools demonstrate the need for coalitional politics between sex workers and disabled people. The harms associated with transinstitutionalization and criminalization demand urgent action. Abolition responds to this urgency, demanding decriminalization, deinstitutionalization and decarceration.

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2021

Emotion, Space and Society

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Opening Ontario’s “Saddest Chapter”: A Social History of Huronia Regional Centre

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Recounting Huronia Faithfully: Attenuating Our Methodology to the “Fabulation” of Truths-Telling

Recounting Huronia Faithfully: Attenuating Our Methodology to the “Fabulation” of Truths-Telling

The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

What survivors see: Creative condemnations of total institutionalization

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