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Power and the Politics of Madness: Mental Illness at the Intersection of State and Society.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Power and the Politics of Madness: Mental Illness at the Intersection of State and Society./
Author:	Daily, Anna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-11.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27960458
ISBN:	9798645449889

Power and the Politics of Madness: Mental Illness at the Intersection of State and Society.
Daily, Anna.

Power and the Politics of Madness: Mental Illness at the Intersection of State and Society. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 236 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

What keeps American political society from recognizing the Mad (commonly called "people with mental illness" or "the mentally ill") as a collective with unique political claims? My answer emerges in what I call a foundational politics of madness-an account of the existing discursive and material barriers that keep the Mad from forming a political group in contemporary democratic society with the purpose of identifying strategies to transform those barriers. In Power and the Politics of Madness, I argue that "the Mad" constitute a politically salient group of subjects vulnerable to unique forms of oppression. Mad oppression entails political exclusion of the Mad in democratic thought, de-politicization of madness via medical language and practice, erasure in cultural tropes with stereotypic functions, and denial of Mad subjectivity in critical disability studies. These practices are underwritten by a societal tendency to equate madness with "unreason" or a dangerous distortion of reason; unreason also attaches to mad subjects and results in the denial of the Mad as "knowers" or subjects able to produce valuable knowledge of the world. I develop my argument by investigating five discursive arenas, critically evaluating their treatment of madness and mad subjects: the history of democratic theory, medical discourses produced for popular consumption, representations of madness in popular visual media, and theories of disability agency in critical disability studies, and arguments for epistemic inclusion in medicine, virtue ethics, and disability studies. I conclude with a call for political theorists to develop and utilize new forms of discourse rooted in critical mad epistemologies. Critical mad epistemologies entail arguments and critical observations that center knowledge produced from the subject-position of madness by mad-identified subjects. I contend that by centering the knowledge of the Mad in the critical evaluation of the systemic relations of power in society challenges the tendency to equate madness with unreason, affirms the subjectivity of the Mad, and can provide the theoretical ground for a collective, mad-identified politics.

ISBN: 9798645449889Subjects--Topical Terms:

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