Throughout the pandemic, I have written a number of posts on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (e.g. here, here here, here, here) and more formal publications about the horrors of nursing homes in Canada and abroad and the ageism and ableism that the institutionalization of elders and disabled people reinforces. In “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the […]
Why Have (Feminist) Philosophers Ignored Nursing Home Incarceration?
My article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex” appears in the recently published special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I guest edited. The article is in partictular the culmination of research that I conducted on nursing homes and other so-called long-term care institutions from early 2000 to mid […]
Some of Our Favourite Posts of 2021
This post provides a retrospective of some of the most popular BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts from 2021. The Dialogues on Disability interviews for the year were also crowd favourites. You can find the archive of the Dialogues on Disability series interviews here. Each of the series interviews from the past year will be featured in the […]
Engineering (the Apparatus of) Disability, University of Zurich and Arché, St. Andrews Online, Oct. 19, 2021
On Tuesday, October 19 (4-6 pm CEST/3-5 pm BST/10am-12pm EST), I will give a presentation entitled “Engineering (the Apparatus of) Disability” to the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar, which is jointly hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich and the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews. The seminar’s Zoom […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Christine Overall
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-fifth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Why Nursing-Home Incarceration Must End
On Wednesday of this week, the Auditor General of Ontario, Bonnie Lysyk, released her report on the catastrophic events that have occurred in Ontario nursing homes during the past pandemic year and the Ford Progressive Conservative government’s response to them. The report identified systemic underfunding, staff shortages, lack of PPE, lack of infection control, shared […]
Philosophy of Disability and the Critical Disability Studies Conference at York
Later today, I will give a Keynote presentation entitled “Philosophy of Disability, Critical Disability Studies, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex” to the Annual York University Critical Disability Studies Conference. Due to the pandemic, this year’s conference is taking place over four consecutive Wednedays this month. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to share my work on […]
The Carceral Character of Nursing Homes and How Eugenics in Canada is MAiD
This post comprises an excerpt from my article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada,” which is forthcoming in Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, a special issue of The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies of which I am guest editor. Additional posts about nursing homes and about MAiD […]
Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex
The writing below constitutes an excerpt of the penultimate version of my article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex,” which will appear in Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, a special issue that I’m guest editing for The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies. The issue should be out by June […]
Bramble, Pandemic Ethics, the Nursing Home-Industrial Complex, and the Scope of Mainstream Philosophy
This post comprises a comment that I contributed to the discussion at PEA Soup of Ben Bramble’s Pandemic Ethics. Bramble’s book, which is open access, online here, was discussed across three PEA Soup posts. My comment below appears on the third of these posts. I wanted to point out what I regard as a grave […]
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