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The Resource Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968, Lynette A. Jackson

Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968, Lynette A. Jackson

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Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type."Through reconstruction and reinterpretation of patient narratives, Jackson shows how patients were diagnosed, detained, and deemed recovered. She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed the way citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages)
Contents
  • "Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia
  • Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933
  • Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni
  • Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness
  • Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942
  • The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968
Isbn
9781501725791
Instance
Label
Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Title
Surfacing up
Title remainder
psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Statement of responsibility
Lynette A. Jackson
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type."Through reconstruction and reinterpretation of patient narratives, Jackson shows how patients were diagnosed, detained, and deemed recovered. She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed the way citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order
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Jackson, Lynette
Dewey number
362.2/1/0096891
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
RC451.Z55
LC item number
J33 2005eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum
  • Ingutsheni Mental Hospital
  • Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum
  • Ingutsheni Mental Hospital
  • Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum
  • Ingutsheni Mental Hospital
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric hospital care
  • Social control
  • Mental Disorders
  • Commitment of Mentally Ill
  • History, 20th Century
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric
  • Mental Disorders
  • Social Control, Formal
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe
  • Simbabwe
Label
Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968, Lynette A. Jackson
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni -- Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness -- Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942 -- The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501725791
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, maps.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv3pfkf4
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • on1046086166
  • (OCoLC)1046086166
Label
Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968, Lynette A. Jackson
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni -- Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness -- Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942 -- The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501725791
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, maps.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv3pfkf4
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • on1046086166
  • (OCoLC)1046086166

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