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Population ControlTheorizing Institutional Violence |
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How common patterns of institutionalization in Canada give rise to institutional violence and abuse.
Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.
Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to institutional violence - whether in residential schools, internment camps, or correctional or psychiatric facilities. This violence is not dependent on any particular space, but on underlying patterns of institutionalization that can spill over into community settings even as Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities. Contributors to the collection argue that there is a logic across community settings that claim to provide care for unruly populations: a logic of institutional violence, which involves a deep entanglement of both loathing and care. This loathing signals a devaluation of the institutionalized and leaves certain populations vulnerable to state intervention under the guise of care. When that offer of care is polluted by loathing, however, there comes along with it an unavoidable and socially prescribed violence.
Offering a series of case studies in the Canadian context - from historical asylums and laundries for “fallen women” to contemporary prisons, group homes, and emergency shelters - Population Control understands institutional violence as a unique and predictable social phenomenon, and makes inroads toward preventing its reoccurrence.
Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to institutional violence - whether in residential schools, internment camps, or correctional or psychiatric facilities. This violence is not dependent on any particular space, but on underlying patterns of institutionalization that can spill over into community settings even as Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities. Contributors to the collection argue that there is a logic across community settings that claim to provide care for unruly populations: a logic of institutional violence, which involves a deep entanglement of both loathing and care. This loathing signals a devaluation of the institutionalized and leaves certain populations vulnerable to state intervention under the guise of care. When that offer of care is polluted by loathing, however, there comes along with it an unavoidable and socially prescribed violence.
Offering a series of case studies in the Canadian context - from historical asylums and laundries for “fallen women” to contemporary prisons, group homes, and emergency shelters - Population Control understands institutional violence as a unique and predictable social phenomenon, and makes inroads toward preventing its reoccurrence.
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344 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780228019305
November 2023
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada
“[Population Control] … has a wide methodological scope, ethnographic and ethical density, and a palpable sense of care forits institutionalized subjects, providing widely applicable lessons on how to research, articulate and challenge institutional violence. These stories need to be heard.” Medicine, Conflict, Survival
“[Population Control] … has a wide methodological scope, ethnographic and ethical density, and a palpable sense of care forits institutionalized subjects, providing widely applicable lessons on how to research, articulate and challenge institutional violence. These stories need to be heard.” Medicine, Conflict, Survival
Jen Rinaldi is associate professor in legal studies at Ontario Tech University.
Kate Rossiter is associate professor in health studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Kate Rossiter is associate professor in health studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Introduction 3
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
Section One: Roots of Total Institutional Violence
1 Making Sense of Institutional Violence through Social Theory: An Autoethnography of Adolescent Trauma and Survival 27
Claudia Malacrida
2 “Spectacles of Humiliation”: Symbolic Violence and the Regulation of Good Shepherd Inmates 47
Rie Croll
3 Manufacturing Structural Vulnerability and Institutional Violence: The Language of Childhood and Disability 68
Katharine Viscardis
4 The Societal Underpinnings of Institutionalizing Othered Bodies: A Typology of Institutional Violence at the Huronia Regional Centre and the Mohawk Institute 92
Annalise Clarkson
Section Two: Loathing in the TransInstitutional Era
5 Invisible Institutions: Institutionalization of People Labelled with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities 115
Megan Q. Linton
6 The Violence of Work: Sheltered Workshops in Ontario, Canada 137
Siobhán Saravanamuttu
7 Institutionalizing Unfree Labour in Ontario’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Farmsteads 159
Shanti Fernando and Jen Rinaldi
8 Danger, Safety, and the Rhetoric of Urban Crisis: Institutional Logics and Windsor’s Downtown Core 179
Jijian Voronka, Adrian Guta, Tina (Jordan) Nguyen, Grace Shaw, and Aman Ahluwalia Cameron
Section Three: Care Qua Violence
9 Gendered and Disability Violence, Uninterrupted: Law’s Formulation of and Complicity in Violence against Women Labelled with Intellectual Disability in Community-Based Institutional Settings 201
Tess Sheldon
10 The List as Deterrent for “Others” 238
Alex Tigchelaar
11 We Want You to Listen: The Shelter Video Project Collective on Colonial/Capitalist Violence 268
The Shelter Video Project Collective: Kim Jackson, Shirley Berry, Sandie Guignard, Asil Lavoie, Lisa LaBlanc, Minutet Nima, Opal Sparks, Marlene Bluebird Stickings
12 Kaleidoscope: Hope in Action beyond Institution 293
Mo Korchinski, Lynn Fels, and Ruth Elwood Martin
Index 319
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
Section One: Roots of Total Institutional Violence
1 Making Sense of Institutional Violence through Social Theory: An Autoethnography of Adolescent Trauma and Survival 27
Claudia Malacrida
2 “Spectacles of Humiliation”: Symbolic Violence and the Regulation of Good Shepherd Inmates 47
Rie Croll
3 Manufacturing Structural Vulnerability and Institutional Violence: The Language of Childhood and Disability 68
Katharine Viscardis
4 The Societal Underpinnings of Institutionalizing Othered Bodies: A Typology of Institutional Violence at the Huronia Regional Centre and the Mohawk Institute 92
Annalise Clarkson
Section Two: Loathing in the TransInstitutional Era
5 Invisible Institutions: Institutionalization of People Labelled with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities 115
Megan Q. Linton
6 The Violence of Work: Sheltered Workshops in Ontario, Canada 137
Siobhán Saravanamuttu
7 Institutionalizing Unfree Labour in Ontario’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Farmsteads 159
Shanti Fernando and Jen Rinaldi
8 Danger, Safety, and the Rhetoric of Urban Crisis: Institutional Logics and Windsor’s Downtown Core 179
Jijian Voronka, Adrian Guta, Tina (Jordan) Nguyen, Grace Shaw, and Aman Ahluwalia Cameron
Section Three: Care Qua Violence
9 Gendered and Disability Violence, Uninterrupted: Law’s Formulation of and Complicity in Violence against Women Labelled with Intellectual Disability in Community-Based Institutional Settings 201
Tess Sheldon
10 The List as Deterrent for “Others” 238
Alex Tigchelaar
11 We Want You to Listen: The Shelter Video Project Collective on Colonial/Capitalist Violence 268
The Shelter Video Project Collective: Kim Jackson, Shirley Berry, Sandie Guignard, Asil Lavoie, Lisa LaBlanc, Minutet Nima, Opal Sparks, Marlene Bluebird Stickings
12 Kaleidoscope: Hope in Action beyond Institution 293
Mo Korchinski, Lynn Fels, and Ruth Elwood Martin
Index 319
