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- Title
Reading Cornelia Rau: At the Limits of Intelligibility.
- Authors
Gannon, Susanne; Saltmarsh, Sue
- Abstract
The article attempts to understand the ways in which discursive and social non/viability and un/intelligibility are constructed through government rhetoric by analyzing Ministerial media releases related to the case of Cornelia Rau, who was detained for 10 months as a suspected illegal immigrant and was deprived of adequate mental health treatment in Australia. The authors' analysis is based on Judith Butler's notion of intelligibility as a condition of unlawful detention.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; RAU, Cornelia; RHETORIC &; psychology; COMMITMENT &; detention of people with mental illness; INTELLIGIBILITY of speech; BUTLER, Judith, 1956-; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture, 2006, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1494-5355
- Publication type
Article