Danielle Landry
Biographic Data
| ID | 6328218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Landry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Landry |
| SIGNATURE | LANDRY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8905-6411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A fight worth remembering
This institutional ethnographic (IE) study of a little-known Ontario-based mad history recounts how, in the 1980s and 1990s, ex-mental patients established a number of social enterprises (also known as consumer/survivor businesses), secured government funding and through these sites, got politically active around issues that impacted their lives. This research poses critical sociological questions about the circulation of activist knowledge-pract…
A Mad-positive Children’s Book List (Dispatch)
Exploring disabled children's activism, resistance and presence perhaps ought to include some consideration of how adults can spark children's interest in activism, or at least offer them various critical, counter-hegemonic representations of madness, disability, and d/Deafness at an early age.In Canada, where I write from, it has become increasingly easy to find children's books that tackle all kinds of equity issues, from historical and present…
Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada
How might those of us located within post-secondary institutions support students who have experience of the mental health system in a meaningful way? Drawing on scholarship in social movement studies and a case study in Ontario, Canada, I distinguish between the prevailing mental health and wellness offerings of educational institutions and distinct forms of grassroots organising led by and for mad-identified students. This paper reflects on my …
Mobilizing Mad Art in the Neoliberal University
Mad art is consistently relegated to the therapeutic realm, understood simply as a benevolent force in the lives of mad people. This divorces mad art from its origins in the asylum and disconnects it from aesthetic markers that consider the skill, technique, and practice of the mad artist. When mad art objects are de-contextualized they reify biomedical interpretations of mad art/artists in ways that employ cultural practices as a form of regulat…
Unlearning through Mad Studies
Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, as both curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness, then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people. This …
Survivor research in Canada
Beginning with discussion of what constitutes survivor research in Canada, this paper presents the findings of a critical discourse analysis of published accounts of survivor research over the last twenty-five years. Though they are varied, these texts demonstrate a rhetorical shift from a focus on the individual mind/body out to the social world experienced by psychiatric consumer/survivors. Findings indicate that survivor research engages with …
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Survivor research in Canada
Beginning with discussion of what constitutes survivor research in Canada, this paper presents the findings of a critical discourse analysis of published accounts of survivor research over the last twenty-five years. Though they are varied, these texts demonstrate a rhetorical shift from a focus on the individual mind/body out to the social world experienced by psychiatric consumer/survivors. Findings indicate that survivor research engages with …
Unlearning through Mad Studies
Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, as both curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness, then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people. This …
Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada
How might those of us located within post-secondary institutions support students who have experience of the mental health system in a meaningful way? Drawing on scholarship in social movement studies and a case study in Ontario, Canada, I distinguish between the prevailing mental health and wellness offerings of educational institutions and distinct forms of grassroots organising led by and for mad-identified students. This paper reflects on my …
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Survivor research in Canada
Beginning with discussion of what constitutes survivor research in Canada, this paper presents the findings of a critical discourse analysis of published accounts of survivor research over the last twenty-five years. Though they are varied, these texts demonstrate a rhetorical shift from a focus on the individual mind/body out to the social world experienced by psychiatric consumer/survivors. Findings indicate that survivor research engages with …
Mobilizing Mad Art in the Neoliberal University
Mad art is consistently relegated to the therapeutic realm, understood simply as a benevolent force in the lives of mad people. This divorces mad art from its origins in the asylum and disconnects it from aesthetic markers that consider the skill, technique, and practice of the mad artist. When mad art objects are de-contextualized they reify biomedical interpretations of mad art/artists in ways that employ cultural practices as a form of regulat…
Unlearning through Mad Studies
Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, as both curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness, then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people. This …
Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada
How might those of us located within post-secondary institutions support students who have experience of the mental health system in a meaningful way? Drawing on scholarship in social movement studies and a case study in Ontario, Canada, I distinguish between the prevailing mental health and wellness offerings of educational institutions and distinct forms of grassroots organising led by and for mad-identified students. This paper reflects on my …
A Mad-positive Children’s Book List (Dispatch)
Exploring disabled children's activism, resistance and presence perhaps ought to include some consideration of how adults can spark children's interest in activism, or at least offer them various critical, counter-hegemonic representations of madness, disability, and d/Deafness at an early age.In Canada, where I write from, it has become increasingly easy to find children's books that tackle all kinds of equity issues, from historical and present…
A fight worth remembering
This institutional ethnographic (IE) study of a little-known Ontario-based mad history recounts how, in the 1980s and 1990s, ex-mental patients established a number of social enterprises (also known as consumer/survivor businesses), secured government funding and through these sites, got politically active around issues that impacted their lives. This research poses critical sociological questions about the circulation of activist knowledge-pract…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)