Mad studies är en framväxande akademisk disciplin, teori och aktivism om erfarenheter, historia, kulturer och politik som berör galenskap, neurodiversitet, och mental hälsa.[1]

Mad studies utgår från patienters perspektiv, och föddes i överlevnadsrörelser i bland annat Kanada, USA, Storbritannien och Australien.

Metoder inom mad studies inspireras av bland annat antropologi, etnografi, critical race theory och queer studies.[2]

Likheter finns också med kritisk handikappvetenskap och kritisk social teori.[3]

Historia redigera

Richard A. Ingram, forskare vid School of Disability Studies vid Ryerson University, ska ha myntat uttrycket Mad studies 2008. I artikeln Doing Mad Studies: Making (Non)sense Together pekar Ingram på ett antal teoretiker som skapat en akademisk grund som mad studies byggt vidare på. Däribland Nietzsche, Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze och Guattari.[4]

Mad studies i Sverige redigera

Mad studies är ett nytt forkningsfält. I Sverige finns 2021 några projekt:

Centrala texter redigera

  • This is Survivor Research (2009) [10]
  • Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (2011) [11]
  • Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies (2013) [12]
  • Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution (2014) [13]
  • Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World (2014) [14]
  • Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (2014) [15]
  • Madness, Distress, and the Politics of Disablement (2015) [16]
  • Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting (2015) [17]
  • Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies (2016) [18]
  • Deportation and the Confluence of Violence within Forensic Mental Health and Immigration Systems (2015) [19]

Källor redigera

  1. ^ Castrodale, Mark Anthony (2015-03-03). ”Mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian mad studies” (på engelska). Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 17 (3): sid. 284–246. doi:10.1080/15017419.2014.895415. ISSN 1745-3011. http://www.sjdr.se/articles/10.1080/15017419.2014.895415/. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  2. ^ LeFrançois, Menzies, and Reaume, editors (2013). Mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian mad studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. sid. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-55130-534-9 
  3. ^ Mark Cresswell, Helen Spandler (20 april 2013). ”The Engaged Academic: Academic intellectuals and the psychiatric survivor movement”. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. sid. 12–13. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/2024/3/2024_Spandler.pdf. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  4. ^ [a b] Ingram, Richard A. (2016-12-29). ”Doing Mad Studies: Making (Non)sense Together” (på engelska). Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice 5 (3): sid. 11–17. ISSN 1925-1270. https://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/article/view/1680. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  5. ^ ”Our projects – Mad heritage and contemporary arts”. https://madheritage.se/our-projects/. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  6. ^ ”Mad studies – Mad heritage and contemporary arts”. https://madheritage.se/mad-studies/. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  7. ^ ”Mad studies möter kritiska kulturarvstudier | Göteborgs universitet”. www.gu.se. https://www.gu.se/nyheter/mad-studies-moter-kritiska-kulturarvstudier. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  8. ^ Infoglue-support. ”Cecilia Rodehn - Uppsala universitet”. katalog.uu.se. https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N9-1287. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  9. ^ Rodehn, Cecilia (2020). ”Galenskapsstudier”. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap 41 (3): sid. 51–73. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423256. Läst 31 juli 2021. 
  10. ^ Sweeney, Beresford, Faulkner, Nettle, Rose (2009). This is Survivor Research. UK: PCCS Books. ISBN 978-1906254148 
  11. ^ Price (2011). Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472051380 
  12. ^ LeFrançois, Menzies, and Reaume, editors (2013). Mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian mad studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. ISBN 978-1-55130-534-9 
  13. ^ Burstow, LeFrancois, and Diamond, eds (2014). Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0773543300 
  14. ^ Mills (2014). Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of the Majority World. East Essex: Routledge. ISBN 9781848721609 
  15. ^ Ben-Moshe, Chapman, & Carey (eds) (2014). Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1137404053 
  16. ^ Spandler, Anderson, Sapey (2015). Madness, Distress, and the Politics of Disablement. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1447314585 
  17. ^ Burstow (2015). Psychiatry and the Business of Maddness. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1137503848 
  18. ^ Russo and Sweeney, ads (2016). Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies. Monmouth: PCCS Books. ISBN 978-1910919231 
  19. ^ Joseph, Ameil (2015). Deportation and the Confluence of Violence within Forensic Mental Health and Immigration Systems. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-349-55826-1