New Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly: Mad Studies

Disability Studies Quarterly are pleased to announce a new special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly: Mad Methods

Guest Editors: Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis

Prefatory Matter

Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness

Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis

Mad Identities

Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New “Patient Perspective”

Michael Rembis

Wading in Digital Waters: Black Mad/Cripistemologies of Motherhood and “Mental Illness” in Online Support Groups Amid the Double Pandemic

Nadia N. Mbonde

Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions 

Stefanie Gil Franco

Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy

Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless and Sara Hashemi

Mad Pedagogies

Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History  

Geoffrey Reaume

LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility

Alexis Padilla

Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis

Lauren Spring

Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures

Maria Karmiris

Mad Interventions

Contending with the “adult gaze” in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children and youth

Maria Liegghio

Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies

Efrat Gold

Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation 

Christina Foisy

Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings

Jose Miguel Esteban