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Blickar tillbaka på studier om intellektuella funktionshinder

NYTT FRÅN VÅRA FORSKARE: Niklas Altermarks artikel 'The Post-Institutional Era: Visions of History in Research on Intellectual Disability' finns med i 30-års jubileumsutgåvan av den ledande tidskriften för funktionshinderforskningen Disability & Society. Altermark analyserar i sin nyskrivna artikel hur historieskrivning påverkar hur vi ser på människor med intellektuella funktionshinder.

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Abstract på engelska

In this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific research and popular discourse. In particular, I discuss the construction of a narrative break between a past of institutionalisation and the present policies of citizenship. By drawing on how postcolonial theorists criticise common ideas about decolonisation, I argue that this narrative impedes our appreciation of how power has transformed, rather than disappeared, after deinstitutionalisation. Instead, I propose ‘post-institutionalisation’ as a name for the present era of intellectual disability politics, suggesting that we need to attend to continuities and discontinuities of how the group is governed; how paternalism lives on after deinstitutionalisation and how the goals of citizenship inclusion give rise to new technologies of government. I conclude the article by discussing the necessity and the dangers of involving people with intellectual disabilities in the analysis of post-institutional government.

Keywords: Intellectual disability, deinstitutionalisation, Spivak, postcolonial theory, disability studies