Tracing and troubling continuities between ableism and colonialism in Canada

Hutcheon, Emily; Lashewicz, Bonnie

doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1647145

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“…These are still powerful dualisms today, with implications for who is given personhood, largely dependent on who is associated with the mind, and who is associated with the body (Clare, 2017). These dualisms have been used as justification for eugenics, and for determining whose body is disposable (Hutcheon & Lashewicz, 2020). In the same way, they have worked to systematize medicine in the way that it is organized by each system of the body.…”

Section: Cartesian Dualisms and Fragmenting Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care

Sebring

2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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In recent years, the term 'medical gaslighting' and accompanying accounts of self-identified women experiencing invalidation, dismissal and inadequate care have proliferated in the media. Gaslighting has primarily been conceptualized in the field of psychology as a phenomenon within interpersonal relationships. Following the work of Paige Sweet (American Sociological Review, 84, 2019, 851), I argue that a sociological explanation is necessary. Such an explanation illustrates how medical gaslighting is not simply an interpersonal exchange, but the result of deeply embedded and largely unchallenged ideologies underpinning health-care services. Through an intersectional feminist and Foucauldian analysis, I illuminate the ideological structures of western medicine that allow for medical gaslighting to be commonplace in the lives of women, transgender, intersex, queer and racialized individuals seeking health care. Importantly, these are not mutually exclusive groups, and I use the term bio-Others to highlight and connect how those with embodied differences are treated in medicine. This article indicates the importance of opening a robust discussion about the sociology of medical gaslighting, so that we might better understand what structural barriers people of marginalized social locations face in accessing quality health care and develop creative solutions to challenge health-care inequities.

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Section: Cartesian Dualisms and Fragmenting Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care

Sebring

2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…They are more likely to be labelled as violent and oppositional, leading to high rates of punishment and medicalisation that have resulted in the school-to-prison pipeline (Harp & Bunting, 2020). Similar experiences are seen globally, as racialised persons are over-represented in clinical populations, subjected to individualised and medical treatments, or placed under carceral control (Fernando, 2014) -systems predominantly run and staffed by white persons (Hutcheon & Lashewicz, 2020). Such disproportionality recreates conditions of dependence.…”

Section: A Short History Of Mental Health As a Colonial Toolmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The Indigenous were pathologised as savage, too dangerous to remain among the 'civil' and, thus, subjected to genocide or displacement (Glenn, 2015). Indigenous persons who remained were portrayed as primitive, ultimately unbefitting life in the colony and, thus, subjected to cultural assimilation (Hutcheon & Lashewicz, 2020). When they resisted assimilation into the colonial world, they were diagnosed as inherently lazy with low mental acumen.…”

Section: A Short History Of Mental Health As a Colonial Toolmentioning

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Unsettling colonial mentalities in family therapy: Entering negotiated spaces

Jordan

2021

Journal of Family Therapy

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This article discusses the settler colonial roots of family therapy, positing that much of what is considered the standard or ideal family form comes from colonialism.Utilising settler colonial theory as a guide, I identify how the colonial nations, built through the violent exclusion of Indigenous and exogenous peoples, utilised the family to further their goals. Rather than suggest settler colonialism was an historic event, I consider how it continues today, privileging white families of European descent. To move the conversation forward on how white therapists from majoritised cultures can engage with racialised clients, I describe the negotiated spaces as a meeting ground where therapists and clients navigate differing worldviews. In these negotiations, our clients trust us, and to be accountable to this trust, we can unsettle the influence of settler colonialism. To conclude this paper, I discuss four possible pathways to begin the complicated process of unsettling.

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“…Disability studies have benefited from a 'global turn' in the last decade (Erevelles 2011;McRuer 2018). According to the inter-sectional approach of some indigenous and disabled activists and scholars (Hutcheon and Lashewicz 2020), contemporary forms of ableism are also mutually implicated in projects of colonialism. Moreover, the global disability movement has been criticized for being too closely tied to hegemonic representations of disability originating primarily from the Global North (see Connell 2011;Grech 2015;Jaffee 2016).…”

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Toward a Critical and Comparative Anthropology of Disability

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This article places anthropology in dialogue with critical disability studies (CDS) in order to reassess historical and emerging ethnographic readings of difference. We argue that one unintended consequence of a lack of attention to disability in anthropology, generally, has been an impoverished conception of personhood and power. Building on insights from CDS and the ethnographic literature, we show how non-normative bodies and minds can play a critical role in relationships with non-human others and exemplary persons. Looking beyond hegemonic and secular ideas of disability as a form of misfortune or lack not only offers alternatives for being with disability, in keeping with the aims of CDS, but also shows new directions for comparative discussions of power and difference.

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Tracing and troubling continuities between ableism and colonialism in Canada

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care

Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care

Unsettling colonial mentalities in family therapy: Entering negotiated spaces

Toward a Critical and Comparative Anthropology of Disability

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