Cadwallader Colden Jr. to Peter Van Bruch Livingston, August 28, 1760

Cadwallader Colden Jr., addressed from Coldenham, an Estate along the Hudson, wrote to Peter Van Brugh Livingston, addressed to Merchant at New York. He explained that his brother, David Colden paid Mr. Alexander. He was afraid to go to town because of smallpox.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1760s/1000/thumbnail.jp

Institutional Violence Against People with Disability: Recent Legal and Political Developments

International and Australian domestic evidence suggest that the prevalence of violence against people with disability is substantially higher than for the rest of the community. Much of the violence experienced by people with disability in Australia occurs within the purview of a variety of institutions, including group homes, large residential institutions, Australian Disability Enterprises (that is, disability employment facilities), schools, psychiatric facilities, hospitals and correctional facilities. This comment discusses recent domestic and international legal and political attempts to grapple with the issue of institutional violence against people with disability, focusing in particular on a series of Senate Committee inquiries into abuse and violence, regulation related to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the coming into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Australia’s anticipated ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and recent calls by Disability People’s Organisations and academics for a Royal Commission into violence against people with disability

Normality and disability: intersections among norms, law, and culture

This special issue of Continuum is published in a conjuncture where there is increased scholarly attention to the positioning as ‘abnormal’ of people designated as disabled, as well as people designated to other marginalized and denigrated categories (such as queer, chronic illness, racial and Indigenous minorities, poverty and criminality). Scholars have critiqued the cultural and material role of technologies of diagnosis and therapy, and discourses of biomedicine and science, in the construction of abnormality, as well as the significant and primary role of disability in positioning as abnormal certain bodies and subjects designated to other marginalized and denigrated categories (for example, through medicalizing and biologizing). The role of law in codifying, challenging, perpetuating and amending historical, material and institutional constructions of disability has also been the subject of much research, particularly highlighting the continuities and discontinuities with key other cultural conditions including settler-colonialism, imperialism, eugenics, reproductive rights, violence and torture, and contemporary forms of neoliberalism