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CRPD Debates Highlight Historical Tensions Between Human Rights and Psychiatry
Spanish scholars use Foucault and Agamben to explore the history of debates over the CRPD and the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities.
By Samantha Lilly -February 1, 2023
www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/looking-at-the-crpd-debates-through-foucault-and-agamben/
A new article published in the Brazilian journal Revista Direito e Praxis, titled “Human rights and psychiatric power in dispute: Towards a radicalization of democracy,” provides a history of the evolving debates over the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities.
The Spanish authors from the University of Barcelona, Pérez Pérez, Margot Pujol I Llombart, and Enrico Mora, draw on the work of philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgi Agamben to highlight the paradoxes of modern conceptions of mental illness and disability and trace them back through time. In doing so, they highlight the medicalization and creation of mental illness categories, critique past attempts to deliver rights to neurodivergent people, and explore the recent development of the Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). They write:
“It is from this place that the CRPD is inscribed in a project of radical democracy that aims to recognize the multiplicity of the human. The abolition of forced commitment and treatment opens the possibility of imagining and deploying forms of support and accompaniment free of violence, de-medicalized, de-judicialized, and radically democratic for those who undergo experiences of intense suffering or madness, which increases their recognition as constitutive of the human.”
Spanish scholars use Foucault and Agamben to explore the history of debates over the CRPD and the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities.
By Samantha Lilly -February 1, 2023
www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/looking-at-the-crpd-debates-through-foucault-and-agamben/
A new article published in the Brazilian journal Revista Direito e Praxis, titled “Human rights and psychiatric power in dispute: Towards a radicalization of democracy,” provides a history of the evolving debates over the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities.
The Spanish authors from the University of Barcelona, Pérez Pérez, Margot Pujol I Llombart, and Enrico Mora, draw on the work of philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgi Agamben to highlight the paradoxes of modern conceptions of mental illness and disability and trace them back through time. In doing so, they highlight the medicalization and creation of mental illness categories, critique past attempts to deliver rights to neurodivergent people, and explore the recent development of the Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). They write:
“It is from this place that the CRPD is inscribed in a project of radical democracy that aims to recognize the multiplicity of the human. The abolition of forced commitment and treatment opens the possibility of imagining and deploying forms of support and accompaniment free of violence, de-medicalized, de-judicialized, and radically democratic for those who undergo experiences of intense suffering or madness, which increases their recognition as constitutive of the human.”