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Against Rights: Critiquing the contemporary neoliberal management of “difficult” mental health
We critique contemporary management of “difficult” mental health, offering a discussion of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs), the limitations of rights advocacy, and offer some alternative avenues for organizing against the neoliberal and carceral management of “difficult” mental health.
Reimagining prevention: centring care in youth support
Community-based services can be a crucial support system for marginalised young people, particularly when schools fail to meet their needs. Yet these same young people are also among those most frequently targeted or harmed by police or other state services.
Suing for sexual violence
In spite of tort law’s ‘architecture of bias’, some feminist scholars and activists have argued that there is potential for tort law to be expanded to encompass and redress harms which more often and more greatly affect women and other marginalised people. While this can be important for some survivors to meet material needs and provide recognition for a wrong and harm, Martha Chamallas argues that it is not only a matter of individual compensation. It is connected to addressing systemic injustices because harm and violence are not equally inflicted and experienced, varying with intersecting forms of oppression.