Korea Journal
- P-ISSN0023-3900
- E-ISSN2733-9343
- A&HCI, SCOPUS, KCI
How South Korea Constructed a Shadow Carceral State through Institutions for People with Mental Disabilities in the 1980s
How South Korea Constructed a Shadow Carceral State through Institutions for People with Mental Disabilities in the 1980s
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초록
This article reexamines the history of placing people with mental disabilities in carceral facilities in South Korea from a feminist disability studies perspective. The large-scale institutionalization that took place during the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan (1980–1987) has typically been analyzed as a product of the government’s violent attempt at social control and the economic interests of private welfare institutions that cooperated with the government. This article uses the concept of a shadow carceral state to rethink how people with mental disabilities were institutionalized in South Korea in the 1980s, and argues that during the period of democratization, the framing of institutional reform as based on liberal human rights and identity condoned unjust and unequal structures that continue to produce abnormal populations that are housed in institutions.
- keywords
- institutionalization, capacity/debility, mental disabilities, family, intersectionality
Abstract
This article reexamines the history of placing people with mental disabilities in carceral facilities in South Korea from a feminist disability studies perspective. The large-scale institutionalization that took place during the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan (1980–1987) has typically been analyzed as a product of the government’s violent attempt at social control and the economic interests of private welfare institutions that cooperated with the government. This article uses the concept of a shadow carceral state to rethink how people with mental disabilities were institutionalized in South Korea in the 1980s, and argues that during the period of democratization, the framing of institutional reform as based on liberal human rights and identity condoned unjust and unequal structures that continue to produce abnormal populations that are housed in institutions.
- keywords
- institutionalization, capacity/debility, mental disabilities, family, intersectionality
- 투고일Submission Date
- 2024-04-29
- 수정일Revised Date
- 2024-08-29
- 게재확정일Accepted Date
- 2024-09-19
- 다운로드 수
- 조회수
- 0KCI 피인용수
- 0WOS 피인용수