“We may have to use other means yet, but it will be a dangerous operation…”

By Jayne Clapton PhD

School of Human Services

Setting the context

What are the similarities?

(Sunday Mail, 7/5/2006)

The influence of Michel Foucault1926-1984

Making people problems:

The Anomalous ‘Them’

‘Mad’ ‘Poor’

‘Imbecile’

‘Poor’

‘Criminal’

Locking ‘them’ upThe Anomalous ‘them’The social

The political

LawScientismMedical-IsationEconomy

The asylum, the institution

The hospital, the prison

Watching ‘them’ – keeping control

The dangerousThe unhealthyThe surplusThe uselessThe contagionThe contaminant

Acts of dismantling - the drilling

What needs to be done?

Hitting barriers

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Sandstone Quartz

Sandstone Quartz

It’s the structure that counts …

Quartz-cemented sandstoneSandstone

The amoral - [im]moral binary

• Amoral:• Dependency is expected• Moral agency is suspended

or surrendered • Seen as ‘pardoned beings’

who require protective action• Described as the-not-able-to-

be included • Based on notions of equality

as non-sameness

• Immoral:

• Independence is privileged

• Autonomous individuals who choose not to do the right, good, or just actions

• Failed citizens who require corrective action

• Inclusion is restricted

• Based on notions of equality as sameness

<-Medical power

What can we do?

Can there be a happy ending?