Timothy Barlott
Biographic Data
| ID | 106681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Barlott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Barlott |
| SIGNATURE | BARLOTT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7868-783X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Does Borderline Do? Thinking with Debility and Capacity
This essay grapples with several debates surrounding “borderline personality disorder (BPD),” a highly stigmatized and gendered psychiatric label disproportionately given to cisgender women and used to invalidate their experiences. There is a growing effort to destigmatize “BPD”—particularly on social media—and advocate for better treatment. However, these movements can overlook long-standing feminist critiques of the diagnosis itself, as well as…
A critical interpretive synthesis to reimagine caring for people with a chronic and persistent mental illness in palliative care
Rethinking posthumanism in rehabilitation science
Posthumanism is a theoretical paradigm in Western continental philosophy with emerging significance and popularity in the health disciplines. Rehabilitation science scholars in fields like occupational therapy and physical therapy have taken up posthumanism, valuing its interventions into the harms of European humanist conceptualizations of the "(hu)man" which perpetuate individualism, ableism, and anthropocentrism. This paper responds to the per…
A collective narrative of care and complex mental illness
Caring is a fundamental concept in healthcare, yet it is fraught with challenges for people living with complex mental illnesses (CMI). Many scholars theorize relationality and interdependence in their definitions of care, however, there has paradoxically been a sustained failure to involve the testimonies and voices of the people who clinicians are connected to and have interdependent relationships with. Using the work of feminist ethics of care…
Physiotherapy’s necessity for ableism
Although critical disability studies has become more widely recognized within physiotherapy scholarship and education, ableism still profoundly influences and directs the physiotherapy profession. We draw from post-structural French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's philosophy to highlight how ableism is bound up in the taken-for-granted assumptions of physiotherapy. We outline how ableism is entangled with the profession's ontology and European notio…
Shame – Rupture – Becoming
Becoming-sick
Becoming, a concept from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,1 is an asignifying process of transformation that unsettles the taken-for-granted. Engaging with micropolitical movements of power and resistance, becomings generate fissures and lines of escape that are difficult to classify or categorize. In this Deleuzio-Guattarian intoxicated poem, the author explores his imperceptible becoming following the surgical removal of an oral ca…
Desiring occupation
In this paper, we operationalise a postmodern conceptualisation of desire in order to articulate occupation as a passionate, creative, and productive process that is entangled with the social world. Employing the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we use the concepts of assemblage and desire to theorise how passionate impulses are socially constructed and produce the flows of everyday life. The concept of assemblages refers to the d…
A transactional perspective on the everyday use of technology by people with learning disabilities
Research points to the potential benefit of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for people with learning disabilities. However, there has been limited exploration of the interconnected nature of people and social context when considering how people with learning disabilities use ICTs. The result has been an overemphasis on (and assumptions of) the skill limitations and individual capacity of people with learning disabilities and the…
Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry
how these intra-actions pushed in some directions and away from others. Although Ahmed would likely not consider herself 'post-humanist', we argue that her socio-political theories of how objects and emotions entangle are of great interest to furthering critical post-human understandings of health. Rather than threatening decision-making, we suggest that feelings (and their affects) are central to it. The article demonstrates the productive poten…
Destabilising social inclusion and recovery, and pursuing 'lines of flight' in the mental health sector
People who have been diagnosed with serious mental illness have a long history of confinement, social stigma and marginalisation that has constrained their participation in society. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we have used the concepts of: assemblages , major and minor and deterritorialisation to critically analyse two pervasive and ‘taken‐for‐granted’ assemblages in mental health: recovery ( including clinical rec…
The Dissident Interview
Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we experimentally chart a cartography of a peculiar interview (an "off-topic" and "dissident" interview that disrupts the agenda of the interviewer). In this article, we aim to traverse the micropolitics of the interview, the entangled relations of power and resistance. We intentionally chart the intensive topography of the peculiar and re-present what was once missed (or passed over). Thinking with …
Becoming minor
This paper draws upon the poststructural work of Deleuze and Guattari to outline a framework for analyzing social formations in a way that is acentred from the individual. The concepts of the major and minor, becoming minor and the rhizome provide a useful framework for scholars and practitioners to engage in affirmative political modes of thought, challenge dominant discourses and seek transformative processes. The major are the dominant things …
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Becoming minor
This paper draws upon the poststructural work of Deleuze and Guattari to outline a framework for analyzing social formations in a way that is acentred from the individual. The concepts of the major and minor, becoming minor and the rhizome provide a useful framework for scholars and practitioners to engage in affirmative political modes of thought, challenge dominant discourses and seek transformative processes. The major are the dominant things …
Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry
how these intra-actions pushed in some directions and away from others. Although Ahmed would likely not consider herself 'post-humanist', we argue that her socio-political theories of how objects and emotions entangle are of great interest to furthering critical post-human understandings of health. Rather than threatening decision-making, we suggest that feelings (and their affects) are central to it. The article demonstrates the productive poten…
Desiring occupation
In this paper, we operationalise a postmodern conceptualisation of desire in order to articulate occupation as a passionate, creative, and productive process that is entangled with the social world. Employing the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we use the concepts of assemblage and desire to theorise how passionate impulses are socially constructed and produce the flows of everyday life. The concept of assemblages refers to the d…
The Dissident Interview
Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we experimentally chart a cartography of a peculiar interview (an "off-topic" and "dissident" interview that disrupts the agenda of the interviewer). In this article, we aim to traverse the micropolitics of the interview, the entangled relations of power and resistance. We intentionally chart the intensive topography of the peculiar and re-present what was once missed (or passed over). Thinking with …
A transactional perspective on the everyday use of technology by people with learning disabilities
Research points to the potential benefit of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for people with learning disabilities. However, there has been limited exploration of the interconnected nature of people and social context when considering how people with learning disabilities use ICTs. The result has been an overemphasis on (and assumptions of) the skill limitations and individual capacity of people with learning disabilities and the…
Shame – Rupture – Becoming
Destabilising social inclusion and recovery, and pursuing 'lines of flight' in the mental health sector
People who have been diagnosed with serious mental illness have a long history of confinement, social stigma and marginalisation that has constrained their participation in society. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we have used the concepts of: assemblages , major and minor and deterritorialisation to critically analyse two pervasive and ‘taken‐for‐granted’ assemblages in mental health: recovery ( including clinical rec…
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Project Backpage
The sex industry occurs in many venues, ranging from the highly visible survival sex trade on the street to venues such as regulated massage parlors and strip clubs, to less visible escort agencies making use of hotel venues, and the highly invisible exploitation that occurs through trick pads and microbrothels operating out of homes, apartments, or condos. In many communities, outreach efforts have focused primarily on direct face-to-face contac…
Becoming minor
This paper draws upon the poststructural work of Deleuze and Guattari to outline a framework for analyzing social formations in a way that is acentred from the individual. The concepts of the major and minor, becoming minor and the rhizome provide a useful framework for scholars and practitioners to engage in affirmative political modes of thought, challenge dominant discourses and seek transformative processes. The major are the dominant things …
Destabilising social inclusion and recovery, and pursuing 'lines of flight' in the mental health sector
People who have been diagnosed with serious mental illness have a long history of confinement, social stigma and marginalisation that has constrained their participation in society. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we have used the concepts of: assemblages , major and minor and deterritorialisation to critically analyse two pervasive and ‘taken‐for‐granted’ assemblages in mental health: recovery ( including clinical rec…
The Dissident Interview
Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we experimentally chart a cartography of a peculiar interview (an "off-topic" and "dissident" interview that disrupts the agenda of the interviewer). In this article, we aim to traverse the micropolitics of the interview, the entangled relations of power and resistance. We intentionally chart the intensive topography of the peculiar and re-present what was once missed (or passed over). Thinking with …
Becoming-sick
Becoming, a concept from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,1 is an asignifying process of transformation that unsettles the taken-for-granted. Engaging with micropolitical movements of power and resistance, becomings generate fissures and lines of escape that are difficult to classify or categorize. In this Deleuzio-Guattarian intoxicated poem, the author explores his imperceptible becoming following the surgical removal of an oral ca…
Desiring occupation
In this paper, we operationalise a postmodern conceptualisation of desire in order to articulate occupation as a passionate, creative, and productive process that is entangled with the social world. Employing the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we use the concepts of assemblage and desire to theorise how passionate impulses are socially constructed and produce the flows of everyday life. The concept of assemblages refers to the d…
A transactional perspective on the everyday use of technology by people with learning disabilities
Research points to the potential benefit of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for people with learning disabilities. However, there has been limited exploration of the interconnected nature of people and social context when considering how people with learning disabilities use ICTs. The result has been an overemphasis on (and assumptions of) the skill limitations and individual capacity of people with learning disabilities and the…
Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry
how these intra-actions pushed in some directions and away from others. Although Ahmed would likely not consider herself 'post-humanist', we argue that her socio-political theories of how objects and emotions entangle are of great interest to furthering critical post-human understandings of health. Rather than threatening decision-making, we suggest that feelings (and their affects) are central to it. The article demonstrates the productive poten…
Physiotherapy’s necessity for ableism
Although critical disability studies has become more widely recognized within physiotherapy scholarship and education, ableism still profoundly influences and directs the physiotherapy profession. We draw from post-structural French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's philosophy to highlight how ableism is bound up in the taken-for-granted assumptions of physiotherapy. We outline how ableism is entangled with the profession's ontology and European notio…
Shame – Rupture – Becoming
What Does Borderline Do? Thinking with Debility and Capacity
This essay grapples with several debates surrounding “borderline personality disorder (BPD),” a highly stigmatized and gendered psychiatric label disproportionately given to cisgender women and used to invalidate their experiences. There is a growing effort to destigmatize “BPD”—particularly on social media—and advocate for better treatment. However, these movements can overlook long-standing feminist critiques of the diagnosis itself, as well as…
A critical interpretive synthesis to reimagine caring for people with a chronic and persistent mental illness in palliative care
Rethinking posthumanism in rehabilitation science
Posthumanism is a theoretical paradigm in Western continental philosophy with emerging significance and popularity in the health disciplines. Rehabilitation science scholars in fields like occupational therapy and physical therapy have taken up posthumanism, valuing its interventions into the harms of European humanist conceptualizations of the "(hu)man" which perpetuate individualism, ableism, and anthropocentrism. This paper responds to the per…
A collective narrative of care and complex mental illness
Caring is a fundamental concept in healthcare, yet it is fraught with challenges for people living with complex mental illnesses (CMI). Many scholars theorize relationality and interdependence in their definitions of care, however, there has paradoxically been a sustained failure to involve the testimonies and voices of the people who clinicians are connected to and have interdependent relationships with. Using the work of feminist ethics of care…
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