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Seminar: 'Mad Studies and an Ethic of Unruliness'
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Prof Bren A. LeFrançois, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada presented a seminar on the theme of mad studies, followed by a discussion with social work students and other participants on the implications of mad studies for professional practice.
In this seminar, Prof LeFrançois argued that the overwhelming presence of inequitable power relations and epistemic injustice continue to buoy our need to change how madness is understood and how mad people are treated and researched. This talk provided an overview of Mad Studies as a theoretical lens, a methodology and an ethical practice. The concept of unruliness was detailed along with an analysis of its importance in research, care work, activism and our day-to-day relations with each other.
Bren A. LeFrançois is a University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Their scholarship focusses on the psychiatrisation of young people and on anti-sanist, anti-colonial and anti-racist praxis. They are a co-editor (along with Geoffrey Reaume and Robert Menzies) of the edited volume Mad Matters which is currently being developed into its second edition (along with a new co-editor, Idil Abdillahi).
This seminar was hosted by the ISS21 Disability & Mental Health Cluster, UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures and the School of Applied Social Studies.
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