4 Truth, Reconciliation, and Disability Institutionalization in Massachusetts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. SITES OF CONSCIENCE 1
5. Introduction Sites of Conscience, Social Justice, and the Unfinished Project of Deinstitutionalization 1
6. PART 1 Centring Survivor Voices and Experiences in the “Afterlives” of Disability and Psychiatric Institutions
7. 1 Historical Memory, Anti-psychiatry, and Mad People’s History 29
8. 2 Contested Memorialization Filling the “Empty Space” of the T4 Murders 46
9. 3 Names on Frosted Glass From Fetishizing Perpetrator Mindsets to Disability Memorialization of the Victims 64
10. 4 Truth, Reconciliation, and Disability Institutionalization in Massachusetts 80
11. 5 “I’m Not Really Here” Searching for Traces of Institutional Survivors in Their Records 91
12. 6 Listening to Peat Island Planning, Press Coverage, and Deinstitutional Violence at a Potential Site of Conscience 109
13. 7 “The Old Concept of Asylum Has a Valid Place” Patient Experiences of Mental Hospitals as Therapeutic 126
14. PART 2 Learning from Sites of Conscience Practices
15. 8 Benevolent Asylum Performance Art, Memory, and Decommissioned Psychiatric Institutions 145
16. 9 Constructing History in the Post-institutional Era Disability Theatre as a Site of Critique 166
17. 10 The Workhouse and Infirmary Southwell Collaboration with Learning-Disabled Neighbours and Partners 182
18. 11 Intellectual Disability in South Africa Affirmative Stories and Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890–1920 196
19. 12 Pathways to Disrupt Eugenics in Higher Education 213
20. 13 “You Just Want to Do What’s Right” Staff Collusion in Institutional Abuse of People with Learning Disabilities 231
21. PART 3 Social Justice and Place Making in the Absence of Sites of Conscience
22. 14 A Place to Have a Cup of Cofee: Remembering and Returning to a Dismantled Psychiatric Hospita 251
23. 15 A Sense of Community within a Site of Amplified Stigma The Strange Case of Spookers 266
24. 16 Naming Streets in a Post-asylum Landscape Cultural Heritage Processes and the Politics of Ableism 283
25. 17 “We Bent the Motorway” Community Action on Exminster Hospital 298
26. Contributors 315
27. Index 322