La cruauté du curatif

Auteurs-es

Mots-clés :

contre-récit, optimisme cruel, récit numérique, affect, guérison

Résumé

Dans cet article, nous nous appuyons sur le cadre théorique de l’optimisme cruel proposé par Lauren Berlant (2011) pour fonder notre critique des discours normatifs sur le handicap, le rétablissement et la guérison, lesquels influencent les conceptions de la santé. Nous soutenons que ces récits ne tiennent pas compte des expériences du handicap, qui se situent et évoluent à l’intersection de la race, du genre, de la classe, de la culture, de la sexualité et de l’identité personnelle. Ce travail nécessite d’abord de remettre en question les perspectives dominantes sur le rétablissement et la guérison qui sous-tendent les pratiques de réadaptation occidentales, puis de se tourner vers les conceptions noires et autochtones de la santé et de la guérison, ancrées dans la communauté et la justice sociale. Notre étude et notre discussion s’inscrivent dans un contexte nord-américain et canadien. Nous décrivons ensuite la méthodologie de contre-discours fondé sur les arts que nous utilisons pour offrir des aperçus de nos récits de handicap numérisés. Nos récits comportent des moments de perturbation, de vulnérabilité et d’isolement, nous permettant de transformer le silence en langage et en action, et de réfléchir à la dynamique complexe entre handicap, santé et maladie, dans laquelle nous sommes pris et que nous continuons de vivre. Nous montrons comment la mise en commun de nos contre-discours permet de contester la métanarration du « aller mieux ». Nous nous intéressons aux notions d’« aller mieux » parce que, comme la promesse cruelle du rétablissement, elles idéalisent un retour à la « normale » et minimisent les histoires qui influent sur le présent de manière vécue et ressentie. Plutôt que d’« aller mieux », notion imprégnée de promesses fantastiques, nous considérons l’authenticité de nos échecs et vulnérabilités comme génératrice, indéchiffrable et persistante.

Biographies de l'auteur-e

  • Alanna Veitch, Queen's University

    Alanna Veitch is an interdisciplinary poet-scholar and PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Queen’s University, with a master’s degree in health science. Her work grapples with disability, female embodiment, the politics of affect, aesthetics, crisis, and hope. Veitch writes out of necessity, bringing poem and image together to register moments that affect and endure. She has performed at local events, with publications in literary and academic journals including Critical Disability Discourses, Critical Studies, and Atlantis. Veitch’s doctoral work is a research-creation project that utilizes poetry and image to register the emotions that comprise an affective economy of disability.

  • Jen Rinaldi, Ontario Tech University

    Jen Rinaldi is an Associate Professor in Legal Studies at Ontario Tech University. She is a socio-legal scholar who uses critical arts-informed and participatory action research methods to study institutional and carceral violences. With her research collective Recounting Huronia, she documented survivor-centric histories of institutionalization. Her books with Kate Rossiter include Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions (Routledge, 2019), and the award-winning Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). She serves as a regional advocate for the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Ontario Team. She is committed to deinstitutionalization, and prison and police abolition.

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2026-04-29