“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?