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Surfacing Up : Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968 / Lynette Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in the History of PsychiatryPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 1 chart/graph/map, 1 table, 10 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501725791
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2/1/0096891 22
LOC classification:
  • RC451.Z55 J33 2005
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Colonial and Postcolonial Place-Names -- Introduction. Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Mental Health in Zimbabwe -- 1. "Lobengula's Wives Lived Here": The Colonization of Space and Meaning and the Birth of the Asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- 2. Bodies in Custody: Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- 3. Black Men, White "Civilization," and Routes to Ingutsheni -- 4. Women Interrupted: Traveling Women, Anxious Men, and Ascriptions of Madness -- 5. Psychiatric Modernity in Black and White, 1933-1942 -- 6. The Africans Do Not Complain: The Monologue of Reason about Madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968 -- Epilogue. Civilizing Mental Health Care: A Postcolonial Moment -- Notes -- Index
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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Colonial and Postcolonial Place-Names -- Introduction. Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Mental Health in Zimbabwe -- 1. "Lobengula's Wives Lived Here": The Colonization of Space and Meaning and the Birth of the Asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- 2. Bodies in Custody: Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- 3. Black Men, White "Civilization," and Routes to Ingutsheni -- 4. Women Interrupted: Traveling Women, Anxious Men, and Ascriptions of Madness -- 5. Psychiatric Modernity in Black and White, 1933-1942 -- 6. The Africans Do Not Complain: The Monologue of Reason about Madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968 -- Epilogue. Civilizing Mental Health Care: A Postcolonial Moment -- Notes -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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