Legacies of Institutionalisation

Claire Spivakovsky is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Melbourne.Linda Steele is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney.Penelope Weller is Professor at the Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University.

• Introduction: The Lasting Legacies of Institutionalisation: Questioning Law’s Roles in the Emancipation of People with Disabilities Claire Spivakovsky, Linda Steele and Penelope WellerPart OnePower Dynamics that Shape the Conditions and Possibilities of People With Disabilities Within and Beyond Sites of Physical Confinement1. Navigating Mental Health Tribunals as a Mad-identified Layperson: An Autoethnographical Account of Liminality Liz Brosnan2. The ‘Will to Empower’ in Contemporary Mental Health Practice Penelope Weller3. The Biopolitics of Disability in Late Francoism and the Spanish Democratic Transition (1959–81) Salvador Cayuela Sánchez4. Disability Law in Spain: Moving Forward Towards Full Citizenship and Inclusion? Eduardo Díaz Velázquez5 Accommodation in the Academy: Working with Episodic Disabilities and Living In Between Roxanne Mykitiuk6. Disabling Solitary: An Anti-Carceral Critique of Canada’s Solitary Confinement Litigation Sheila WildemanPart TwoComplicated Alliances: The Confluence of Ableist, Sanist, Gendered, Classed and Racialised Logics in Law, Policy and Practice 7. Excavating Hostility and Rationalising Violence through Anti-immigrant Confluent Discourses of Racial Threat, Risk, Burden and Lack Ameil Joseph8. Disability–Indigenous Gendered Relations in Settler–Colonial Australia: Continuities, Trajectories and Enmeshments Karen Soldatic9. Disability, Gender and Institutions: An Examination of Australian Cases Involving Personality Disorders Isabel Karpin and Karen O’Connell10. Reconciling Cognitive Disability and Corrosive Social Disadvantage: Identity, Transgression and Debility Leanne Dowse11. Fixated Persons Units: A Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) Analysis Fleur Beaupert and Shelley BielefeldPart ThreeInstitutionalisation and Human Rights: The Role of the CRPD in the Emancipationof People with Disabilities 12. A Matter of Engagement: Analysing the Submissions to the CRPD Committee on General Comment #1 Peter Barlett13. Making Sense of Cheshire West Lucy Series14. The Production of ‘Dependent Individuals’ Within the Application of Spanish Law 39/2006 on Personal Autonomy and Dependent Carein Andalusia, Basque Country and Madrid Melania Moscoso Pérez and R Lucas Platero15. To Use or Not to Use Physical Restraints in Paediatric Psychiatric Care: Should Health Professionals as Guarantors Use Coercive Measures to Protect from Potential Harm? Elvira Pértega Andía16. Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? Jill Stavert17. Diffabled People’s Access to Indonesia’s Criminal Justice System Dio Ashar Wicaksana