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“Completely Useless”: Exiling the Disabled to Tsarist Siberia

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Abstract: The ostracizing of mentally and physically disabled individuals
is a cross-cultural phenomenon that amounts to what
Henri-Jacques Stiker calls a “murderous system,” which does not kill
such individuals outright, but instead indirectly. This as well as Foucault’s
notions about the construction of madness and deviancy
serve as a departure point for understanding tsarist Russia’s murderous
system of deporting the disabled to Siberia. This article
charts this system’s operation over the longue durée, from the midsixteenth
to the late nineteenth century; describes the motivations
and factors conditioning those powerbrokers who exiled the disabled;
and provides data on the number of disabled exiles and describes
conditions they faced. I argue that the state’s exploitation of
the peasantry, the peasantry’s inculcation of commodifying economic
imperatives, and the availability of Siberia’s expanses combined
to make Russia’s a uniquely murderous system that lasted for
centuries.

Keywords: disabled, krugovaia poruka, murderous system, nesposobnye,
nepriniatye, posel´chiki, propitannye

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Judul Seri

Sibirica

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Penerbit

: Berghahn Journals., 2011

Deskripsi Fisik

Sibirica, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2011: 26–49

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English

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POLITIK

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