Isabelle Perreault
Isabelle Perreault est professeure agrégée au département de criminologie à l’Université d’Ottawa. Elle travaille actuellement sur deux projets de recherche subventionnés par le CRSH : 1) le droit à disposer de son corps, de sa vie et de sa sexualité dans la loi criminelle canadienne depuis 1945 et 2) une sociohistoire du suicide au Québec de 1763 à nos jours. Ces projets prennent racines dans des sources d’archives du XVIIIe au XXIe siècle. En bref, elle s’intéresse à la façon dont les discours émanant des domaines de la politique, de la religion, des médias et de la science ont façonné et géré les soi-disant comportements mentaux, sociaux et sexuels jugés déviants au Canada francophone.
Elle est chercheure affiliée au Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales (CHRS) de l’UQAM et dirige un axe de recherche au Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités (CIRCEM) de l’Université d’Ottawa. Cet axe, intitulé « Enjeux biopolitiques et groupes minorisés » porte sur l’étude des biopolitiques canadiennes à partir des traces retrouvées en archive, traces qui émanent du contact entre un individu et une institution médicale, judiciaire ou policière sur les questions de suicide (assisté), d’avortement provoqué, de procréation assisté, de stérilisation et de pratiques sexuelles diverses. Une attention particulière est portée aux groupes minoritaires, par exemple la minorité francophone au Canada, et aux groupes minorisés par leurs histoires et leurs conditions de vie.
Isabelle Perreault is Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She is currently working on two research projects: 1) biopolitics and the Canadian penal code, and 2) a sociological history of suicide in Quebec from 1763 to the present. These projects are grounded in archival material from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. In short, she is interested by how discourses from the realms of politics, religion, the media and science have shaped and managed so-called mental, social and deviant sexual behaviours in French Canada.
She is an affiliated member at the Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales (CHRS) at UQAM and has a research axis at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités (CIRCEM) at University of Ottawa. This research axis, Biopolitical issues and minority groups, questions Canadian biopolitics from traces found in archives, traces that emanate from the contact between an individual and a medical, judicial or police institution on (assisted) suicide, induced abortion, assisted procreation, sterilization, non-procreative sexual practices and others subjects. A close attention is given to minority groups, such as the francophone minority, and to groups who are seen has minorities because of their life conditions and histories.
Elle est chercheure affiliée au Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales (CHRS) de l’UQAM et dirige un axe de recherche au Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités (CIRCEM) de l’Université d’Ottawa. Cet axe, intitulé « Enjeux biopolitiques et groupes minorisés » porte sur l’étude des biopolitiques canadiennes à partir des traces retrouvées en archive, traces qui émanent du contact entre un individu et une institution médicale, judiciaire ou policière sur les questions de suicide (assisté), d’avortement provoqué, de procréation assisté, de stérilisation et de pratiques sexuelles diverses. Une attention particulière est portée aux groupes minoritaires, par exemple la minorité francophone au Canada, et aux groupes minorisés par leurs histoires et leurs conditions de vie.
Isabelle Perreault is Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She is currently working on two research projects: 1) biopolitics and the Canadian penal code, and 2) a sociological history of suicide in Quebec from 1763 to the present. These projects are grounded in archival material from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. In short, she is interested by how discourses from the realms of politics, religion, the media and science have shaped and managed so-called mental, social and deviant sexual behaviours in French Canada.
She is an affiliated member at the Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales (CHRS) at UQAM and has a research axis at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités (CIRCEM) at University of Ottawa. This research axis, Biopolitical issues and minority groups, questions Canadian biopolitics from traces found in archives, traces that emanate from the contact between an individual and a medical, judicial or police institution on (assisted) suicide, induced abortion, assisted procreation, sterilization, non-procreative sexual practices and others subjects. A close attention is given to minority groups, such as the francophone minority, and to groups who are seen has minorities because of their life conditions and histories.
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through the Coroner’s investigations, the information they collected in the reports, but also by the evidence they used and the words selected to describe the events surrounding the death
(and death). We will see that a "suicide" can invoke different interpretations according to social actors that comment and explain the act, and depending on the historical period in which it
is named. We will also see that the determination of a suicide verdict in penal institutions show that the prisoner status as a pariah makes conceivable the "suicidal will" in the eyes of
the coroner (and his witnesses), whereas this is not the case for verdicts made for the general population.
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through the Coroner’s investigations, the information they collected in the reports, but also by the evidence they used and the words selected to describe the events surrounding the death
(and death). We will see that a "suicide" can invoke different interpretations according to social actors that comment and explain the act, and depending on the historical period in which it
is named. We will also see that the determination of a suicide verdict in penal institutions show that the prisoner status as a pariah makes conceivable the "suicidal will" in the eyes of
the coroner (and his witnesses), whereas this is not the case for verdicts made for the general population.