In 1991, a young British woman committed suicide in a Californian apartment. Her husband
was also found dead in an adjacent room. The complex circumstances of the event garnered …

The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University is one of the university's 27
organized research units (ORUs), providing a home for research outside traditional …

On June 20, 2020, Ejaz Choudry, a sixty-two-year-old father of four, was killed by Ontario's
Peel Regional Police during a mental health “wellness check.” A viral video capturing the …

This chapter pivots on the date of June 3, 2019, when the final report of the Canadian
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA …

In this chapter, we engage with different forms of atrocities committed against imprisoned
dissidents in post-revolutionary Iran. This is just a sample of state violence at large against …

This chapter discusses the value of the cultural-historical theory of subjectivity both for
professional practice and for research in the field of mental health. Drawing on empirical …

During the past thirty years, there has been increasing concern regarding physical restraint
and its association with death, injury, pain and emotional upset. Internationally there has …

Almost ten years ago, I wrote about alternatives to (disability) incarceration, charting some
ways to resist carceral responses to harm and difference. By carceral, I was referring to …

This chapter reflects on the diverse range of coercive medico-legal interventions that have
been introduced over time in relation to people deemed to be unable to make competent …

This article discusses three films made about the Sir George Williams Affair:),) and the
widely distributed National Film Board film). It comprises a critique of the latter, arguing that …