Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Time: September 14, 2015 all day
Location: University of Sheffield
City/Town: Sheffield
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Phone: china.mills@sheffield.ac.uk
Event Type: one, day, seminar
Organized By: University of Sheffield - school of education
Latest Activity: Jun 28, 2015
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Colonising Madness: Postcolonial theory within Critical Disability Studies, Mad Studies, and Critical (Educational) Psychology
Organised by China Mills and Dan Goodley, at the Critical Education and Psychology Centre for the Human (CEPCH), at Sheffield University’s School of Education
Within Critical Disability Studies, Mad Studies, and Critical (Educational) Psychology, (post)colonial theory is increasingly being put to use. This work surrounds us with calls to decolonize education, disability, (global) mental health, methodologies, and more. It implies that the ableism and sanism enshrined in education, models of disability and ‘mental disorder’ from the global North, and the psy-disciplines more generally, are colonial: that they have historically been and continue to be tools of colonialism, and/or that they themselves colonize lived realities and ways of life. Postcolonial theory is also used to illuminate how intersecting forms of oppression and discrimination may be inscribed on people’s bodies, psyches and spirits, in multiple ways and across generations. And it is also used to read resistance.
This event emerges from this contested space and aims to enable a group of interdisciplinary scholars, activists and postgraduate researchers, to come together to discuss and critically reflect on the use of (post)colonial theory and discourses of (de)colonization within their own work and lives. The workshop will be framed around, though not exclusive to, a series of questions:
At this workshop speakers will share how they put postcolonial scholarship ‘to work’. Speakers include; Muna Abdi (University of Sheffield), Shaun Grech (The Critical Institute, Malta), Bruce Cohen (University of Auckland), Bill Penson (UCLAN), Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) and China Mills (University of Sheffield). Talks will be interspersed with short five minute ‘provocations’ (questions, debates, anxieties) from scholars and activists around the world. This event actively seeks to promote the work of postgraduate researchers and activists, alongside other forms of scholarship, and a limited number of bursaries to cover travel expenses are available.
Please contact China Mills china.mills@sheffield.ac.uk (no later than July 1st), if you’d like to share a provocation, apply for a bursary, and to let us know how we can make the workshop accessible for you.
We look forward to seeing you in September.
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