scholarly journals The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
PhebeAnn Marjory Wolframe
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Mad Studies ◽  
Higher Eduction ◽  
Systemic Discrimination ◽  
The Invisible

<p>In this paper, I suggest that one way to bring mad perspectives and discussions about saneism/mentalism--systemic discrimination against people who have been diagnosed as, or are perceived to be "mentally ill"--into higher eduction is to situate them within existing curricula across disciplines. One of the ways curricula can be modified is by adapting existing theoretical frameworks from other interdisciplinary fields to mad issues and contexts. As an example of this adaptation, I turn Peggy McIntosh's article "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1988), a staple of undergraduate humanities curricula, into a teaching tool for showing not only the ways in which "sane" people--those who have never been psychiatrized or perceived as "mentally ill"--have access to privileges that mad people do not, but also the ways in which saneism/mentalism intersects with other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and ableism.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Keywords:&nbsp;saneism, mentalism, mad studies, privilege, feminism, intersectionality, pedagogy</p>

scholarly journals Southernizing and decolonizing the Sociology of Language: African scholarship matters

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 259-263
Author(s):  
Stephanie Rudwick ◽  
Sinfree Makoni
Keyword(s):  
Related Problem ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Sociology Of Language

Abstract In this short article we call for decolonization strategies in the Sociology of Language through a focus shift towards the global South, in particular Africa and a heightened attention to “race” as a significant category. We highlight three primary points that require critical attention in a decolonized Sociology of Language: (i) the identification of northern sociolinguistic theories which have been masked as universal and a critical shift towards theoretical frameworks emerging from the South; (ii) the acknowledgement of “white” privilege and “white fragility” in language studies and its related problem of ignoring “race” as a significant category, in scholarship as well as among authors/editors; and (iii) the under-representation of (especially female) scholars of colour in sociolinguistic research.

scholarly journals Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Vine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Classic Article ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

Educators in the United States have failed in teaching about war. Educators have failed to teach broadly enough, consistently enough, and with the sense of urgency demanded by the immense destruction of the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars. In the spirit of exchanging ideas, strategies, and inspiration, this article offers 56 suggestions for teaching about war. While the suggestions are focused on people teaching about U.S. wars, they can be applied by anyone teaching about war anywhere, at any level, in any field, for any length of time. The article discusses how much of the violence of war is similar to the “invisible knapsack” Peggy McIntosh identifies in her classic article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” War is not the same as whiteness, but war, militarization, and militarism shape our daily lives in profound but often invisible ways. In this context, educators can help make war visible and contribute to movements to end current wars and stop future ones.

scholarly journals A novel teaching tool for visualizing the invisible bile duct axis in 3 dimensions during biliary cannulation (Compact Disc method)

VideoGIE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 389-394
Author(s):  
Mamoru Takenaka ◽  
Tomoe Yoshikawa ◽  
Kosuke Minaga ◽  
Kentaro Yamao ◽  
Masatoshi Kudo
Keyword(s):  
Bile Duct ◽  
Compact Disc ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Biliary Cannulation ◽  
The Invisible

Contesting “Authenticity” in Authentic Leadership through a Mad Studies Lens

2021 ◽  
pp. 153448432110205
Author(s):  
Greg Procknow ◽  
Tonette S. Rocco
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Mental Health Awareness ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Mad Studies ◽  
Awareness Curriculum

A Mad Studies/social model of mental distress lens was used to critique authentic leadership. We deconstructed the dilemma of authenticity and leadership by exploring how authentic leadership (dis)allows the inclusion of people with mental illness. We found that their minds are treated as disruptive and rarely ever read as authentic. For followers to view “mentally ill” leaders as authentic requires candidness, disability disclosure, and emulating norms typical to their ingroup membership. We conclude this paper by challenging HRD to rethink its stance on disruptive leadership as symptomatic of mental illness. Employees with mental health marginality can develop an authentic identity in the workplace through authenticity building experiences such as connecting mad leaders to peer-support training, offering specialized leadership development, and co-producing a mental health awareness curriculum that challenges unhealthy workplace discourses that stigmatize mad leaders and workers.

Disentangling Mental Illness Labeling Effects from Treatment Effects on Well-Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 215686932094959
Author(s):  
Peggy A. Thoits
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Clinical Disorder ◽  
National Comorbidity Survey Replication ◽  
Mad Studies ◽  
Social Causes

The emerging field of Mad Studies has returned attention to deficiencies of the medical model, refocusing scholars on social causes of mental health problems and on consumers’/survivors’ experiences of labeling and stigma. These themes echo issues addressed in traditional and modified labeling theories. A fundamental labeling premise is that professional categorization as “mentally ill” is a major determinant of individuals’ poorer psychological well-being. However, this relationship has not been tested appropriately because past studies frequently measured formal labeling by a person’s involvement in treatment. Treatment involvement can indicate the receipt of potentially beneficial services or harmful categorization with a stigmatizing label. Independent measures of these constructs in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication enable reexamining traditional and modified labeling hypotheses for individuals with (N = 1,255) and without (N = 4,172) a recurrent clinical disorder. Supporting labeling theory’s central proposition, formal labeling was linked to more negative affect and disability days in both groups. These relationships were not spurious products of preexisting serious symptoms, refuting a psychiatric explanation. Treatment involvement effects differed noticeably between the groups, underscoring the need to keep treatment and labeling measures distinct.

Policing in Europe: disability justice and abolitionist intersectional care

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Vanessa E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
Mad Studies ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Psychiatric Survivors

Over the last few years, the intersections between mental health and punitive violence have gained more attention within scholarship and activism around race and policing. Disability justice and intersectional approaches have argued that the discourses around and categorisations of various forms of disability are deeply rooted in projects of colonialism and enslavement, and their legacies. These discourses are strongly enacted in contemporary logics and practices of policing, as racialised people who identify or are categorised as mad, neurodiverse, mentally ill, psychiatric survivors and disabled are particularly vulnerable to police harassment and violence. This article discusses how policing is deeply intertwined with discourses around saneism – institutional and systemic oppression of people who identify, have been diagnosed as, or are perceived to be, mentally ill, which has implications for abolitionist intersectional thought and practice. Foregrounding a black feminist abolitionist analysis, in dialogue with intersectional disability justice and mad studies, the author argues that an accountable engagement with the mad analytics of policing of black lives has important implications for intersectional and abolitionist thought and activism as forms of care/ing for black lives.

The Invisible Exit Sign

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
ALAN ROCKOFF
Keyword(s):  
The Invisible
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