Michael Rembis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1246594 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Rembis |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Rembis |
| ASSINATURA | REMBIS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0802-443X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Introduction
In this editors’ introduction to our special issue on Mad Methods, we reflect on the solidification of mad studies as it becomes increasingly recognized as an academic field. Tracing the rich histories, lineages, and activist genealogies that animate mad knowledges and methods, we remain grounded in the community-building and activist efforts from which the field emerges. We approach mad methods as an honoring of multiplicity, featuring authors w…
Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New “Patient Perspective”
To date, the history of madness has been (largely) the province of medical historians and sociologists, who, despite their calls since the 1980s to engage with “patients,” have done little to develop the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools and frameworks that would better illuminate the many lived experiences and multiple insights of mad people. In this article, I draw upon my work on madness, mad people, and asylums in the United S…
The Incorrigibles
Esme Cleall. Colonising Disability
Jarrett, Simon, Those They Called Idiots
Simon Jarrett has written a remarkable history of mental disability in England (with some evidence from France and the United States) from 1700 to the early twenty-first century. His focus in Those They Called Idiots is on both changing conceptualisations of ‘the idiot’, primarily in popular culture and legal discourse, and on the treatment of people considered ‘idiots’ over three centuries. Jarrett notes from the outset the expansion of the cate…
J ason E llis . A Class by Themselves? The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond
Jason Ellis’s A Class by Themselves? is a thoroughly researched, carefully argued examination of the development of special classes, programs, and schools—what was known as auxiliary education—in Toronto from the 1910s through the 1940s. Each of this exceptional book’s six chapters is organized around a specific theme or issue that confronted educators in Toronto during the formative years of auxiliary education. Ellis explores everything from eu…
Crip Camp
Nominated for over thirty awards, including Best Documentary Feature from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and co-produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, Crip Camp begins in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp founded in 1951 for disabled people located in New York's Catskill Mountains, and follows some of the campers through their participation in disability rights protests, including the 504 Sit-ins…
Bess Williamson. Accessible America
In 2003, Catherine Kudlick wrote in the pages of the AHR that historians needed to consider “another ‘Other.’” She was referring to disability. In her review essay, Kudlick encouraged historians to think about disability, and when they thought about it, to conceive of it not merely as a pathologized, medicalized, or individualized experience, but also as a shared social, cultural, political, and economic—in short, human—condition. Kudlick argued …
Disability Studies
This chapter reviews three special journal issues that appeared in 2017, each of which takes up important considerations of disability and care. It is divided into five sections: 1. Analytical Foundations; 2. Caregivers; 3. Mutual and Inter-Dependencies; 4. Care Receivers; 5. Conclusions. The articles reviewed here engage with physical, sensory, developmental or intellectual disabilities, and mental disabilities, including people living on the au…
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, an…
Discrediting the Red Scare
With Discrediting the Red Scare Robert Justin Goldstein gives readers a carefully researched, thoughtful, and detailed account of one man's struggle against the oppressive force of America's loyalty and security state at the height of the Cold War, from 1948 to 1956. The book traces the story of James Kutcher, born on December 26, 1912, in Newark, New Jersey, to Russian immigrant parents. Politicized by the Great Depression, Kutcher joined a Soci…
Disabling Domesticity
Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family. Contributors to Disabling Domesticity focus on the varied domestic sites where…
Disability Studies
Disability Studies
In last year’s article in this same journal, I discussed various theorizations of ‘normal’, ‘normality’, and more specifically, Lennard Davis’ assertion that we are witnessing the ‘end of normal’. Ideas about normality have formed a core concept upon which disability studies work has been built for decades. The authors I consider in this review article take on an equally important and no less capacious or fraught concept: citizenship. Or as Hirsc…
Amanda H. Littauer. Bad Girls
In Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties, Amanda H. Littauer draws on an array of cultural sources, including “documents created by the U.S. Military, the Federal Security Agency’s Social Protection Division, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Traveler’s Aid Society, and the American Social Hygiene (later Health) Association (ASHA)” (10), as well as nationally distributed publications, surveys, le…
Civil Disabilities
Journal Article Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging Get access Ed. by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Beth Linker. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vi, 307 pp. $65.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1152–1153, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav744 Published: 01 March 2016
Disability Studies
(Re)Defining disability in the ‘genetic age’
In this article I explore the intersections among behavioral genetics, 'new' eugenics, and disability and their implications for future conceptualizations of impairment and its perceived role in socially deviant behavior and societal 'reform'. Critics from a number of different backgrounds have pointed out the shortcomings of behavioral genetics, most notably that it has not yielded any meaningful findings. Missing from most discussions, however,…
Beyond the Binary
I ain't been reading while on prarole
This article analyzes professional challenges to the 1915 commitment law and the ultimate demise of eugenic institutionalization in Illinois. It reveals the pivotal role of psychologists and intelligence testing in the debate over the necessity and viability of a state-sponsored system of eugenic commitment. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on a specific group of young female test subjects and the female professionals who attempted to m…
Beyond the Binary
(Re)Defining disability in the ‘genetic age’
In this article I explore the intersections among behavioral genetics, 'new' eugenics, and disability and their implications for future conceptualizations of impairment and its perceived role in socially deviant behavior and societal 'reform'. Critics from a number of different backgrounds have pointed out the shortcomings of behavioral genetics, most notably that it has not yielded any meaningful findings. Missing from most discussions, however,…
Crip Camp
Nominated for over thirty awards, including Best Documentary Feature from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and co-produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, Crip Camp begins in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp founded in 1951 for disabled people located in New York's Catskill Mountains, and follows some of the campers through their participation in disability rights protests, including the 504 Sit-ins…
I ain't been reading while on prarole
This article analyzes professional challenges to the 1915 commitment law and the ultimate demise of eugenic institutionalization in Illinois. It reveals the pivotal role of psychologists and intelligence testing in the debate over the necessity and viability of a state-sponsored system of eugenic commitment. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on a specific group of young female test subjects and the female professionals who attempted to m…
(Re)Defining disability in the ‘genetic age’
In this article I explore the intersections among behavioral genetics, 'new' eugenics, and disability and their implications for future conceptualizations of impairment and its perceived role in socially deviant behavior and societal 'reform'. Critics from a number of different backgrounds have pointed out the shortcomings of behavioral genetics, most notably that it has not yielded any meaningful findings. Missing from most discussions, however,…
Beyond the Binary
Disability Studies
Disability Studies
In last year’s article in this same journal, I discussed various theorizations of ‘normal’, ‘normality’, and more specifically, Lennard Davis’ assertion that we are witnessing the ‘end of normal’. Ideas about normality have formed a core concept upon which disability studies work has been built for decades. The authors I consider in this review article take on an equally important and no less capacious or fraught concept: citizenship. Or as Hirsc…
Amanda H. Littauer. Bad Girls
In Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties, Amanda H. Littauer draws on an array of cultural sources, including “documents created by the U.S. Military, the Federal Security Agency’s Social Protection Division, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Traveler’s Aid Society, and the American Social Hygiene (later Health) Association (ASHA)” (10), as well as nationally distributed publications, surveys, le…
Civil Disabilities
Journal Article Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging Get access Ed. by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Beth Linker. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vi, 307 pp. $65.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1152–1153, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav744 Published: 01 March 2016
Disabling Domesticity
Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family. Contributors to Disabling Domesticity focus on the varied domestic sites where…
Disability Studies
Disability Studies
This chapter reviews three special journal issues that appeared in 2017, each of which takes up important considerations of disability and care. It is divided into five sections: 1. Analytical Foundations; 2. Caregivers; 3. Mutual and Inter-Dependencies; 4. Care Receivers; 5. Conclusions. The articles reviewed here engage with physical, sensory, developmental or intellectual disabilities, and mental disabilities, including people living on the au…
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, an…
Discrediting the Red Scare
With Discrediting the Red Scare Robert Justin Goldstein gives readers a carefully researched, thoughtful, and detailed account of one man's struggle against the oppressive force of America's loyalty and security state at the height of the Cold War, from 1948 to 1956. The book traces the story of James Kutcher, born on December 26, 1912, in Newark, New Jersey, to Russian immigrant parents. Politicized by the Great Depression, Kutcher joined a Soci…
Bess Williamson. Accessible America
In 2003, Catherine Kudlick wrote in the pages of the AHR that historians needed to consider “another ‘Other.’” She was referring to disability. In her review essay, Kudlick encouraged historians to think about disability, and when they thought about it, to conceive of it not merely as a pathologized, medicalized, or individualized experience, but also as a shared social, cultural, political, and economic—in short, human—condition. Kudlick argued …
Jarrett, Simon, Those They Called Idiots
Simon Jarrett has written a remarkable history of mental disability in England (with some evidence from France and the United States) from 1700 to the early twenty-first century. His focus in Those They Called Idiots is on both changing conceptualisations of ‘the idiot’, primarily in popular culture and legal discourse, and on the treatment of people considered ‘idiots’ over three centuries. Jarrett notes from the outset the expansion of the cate…
J ason E llis . A Class by Themselves? The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond
Jason Ellis’s A Class by Themselves? is a thoroughly researched, carefully argued examination of the development of special classes, programs, and schools—what was known as auxiliary education—in Toronto from the 1910s through the 1940s. Each of this exceptional book’s six chapters is organized around a specific theme or issue that confronted educators in Toronto during the formative years of auxiliary education. Ellis explores everything from eu…
Crip Camp
Nominated for over thirty awards, including Best Documentary Feature from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and co-produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, Crip Camp begins in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp founded in 1951 for disabled people located in New York's Catskill Mountains, and follows some of the campers through their participation in disability rights protests, including the 504 Sit-ins…
Esme Cleall. Colonising Disability
Introduction
In this editors’ introduction to our special issue on Mad Methods, we reflect on the solidification of mad studies as it becomes increasingly recognized as an academic field. Tracing the rich histories, lineages, and activist genealogies that animate mad knowledges and methods, we remain grounded in the community-building and activist efforts from which the field emerges. We approach mad methods as an honoring of multiplicity, featuring authors w…
Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New “Patient Perspective”
To date, the history of madness has been (largely) the province of medical historians and sociologists, who, despite their calls since the 1980s to engage with “patients,” have done little to develop the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools and frameworks that would better illuminate the many lived experiences and multiple insights of mad people. In this article, I draw upon my work on madness, mad people, and asylums in the United S…
The Incorrigibles
Sociology (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Disability studies (5 obras) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)