Colonizing Madness : : Asylum and Community in Fiji / / Jacqueline Leckie.
In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands’ most enduring psychiatric institution—St Giles Psychiatric Hospital—established as Fiji’s...
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Leckie, Jacqueline, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Colonizing Madness : Asylum and Community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2019] ©2020 1 online resource (294 p.) : 26 b&w illustrations, 4 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introducing the Colonization of Madness into Fiji -- Chapter 2. Displaced Minds: Indo-Fijians and Mental Distress -- Chapter 3. Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, Community, and “Madness” -- Chapter 4. Mad Women -- Chapter 5. Diagnoses and Discourse of Mental Disorders -- Chapter 6. Struggling with Madness: Control, Treatments, and Resistance -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Recolonizing Mental Health in Postcolonial Fiji? -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands’ most enduring psychiatric institution—St Giles Psychiatric Hospital—established as Fiji’s Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji’s indigenous, migrant, and colonial communities and examines how individuals and communities lived with the label of madness in an ethnically complex island society. Tracking longitudinal change from the 1880s to the present in the construction and treatment of mental disorder in Fiji, the book emphasizes the colonization of madness across and within the divides of culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, economics, and power. Colonization of madness in Fiji was forged by the entanglement of colonial institutions and cultures that reflected tensions and prejudices within homes, villages, workplaces, and churches. Mental despair was equally an outcome of the destruction and displacement wrought by migration and colonialism. Madness was further cast within the wider world of colonial psychiatry, Western biomedicine, and asylum building. One of the chapters explores medical discourse and diagnoses within colonial worlds and practices. The “community within” the asylum is a feature in Leckie’s study, with attention to patient agency to show how those labeled insane resisted diagnoses of their minds, confinement, and constraints—ranging from straitjackets to electric shock treatments to drug therapies. She argues that madness in colonial Fiji reflects dynamics between the asylum and the community, and that “reading” asylum archives sheds new light on race/ethnicity, gender, and power in colonial Fiji. Exploring the meaning of madness in Fiji, the author does not shy away from asking controversial questions about how Pacific cultures define normality and abnormality and also how communities respond. Carefully researched and clearly written, Colonizing Madness offers an engaging narrative, a superb example of an intersectional history with a broad appeal to understanding global developments in mental health. Her theses address the contradictions of current efforts to discard the asylum model and to make mental health a reality for all in postcolonial societies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Asylums Fiji Suva History. Asylums-Fiji-Suva-History. Mental illness Social aspects Fiji. Mental illness-Social aspects-Fiji. Mentally ill Fiji Suva. Mentally ill-Fiji-Suva. HISTORY / Oceania. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2 9783110696295 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 English 9783110610178 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 9783110606195 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PP ROW Ebook Package English 2020 9783110696301 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110689624 print 9780824878009 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824881900?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824881900 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824881900/original |
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Leckie, Jacqueline, Leckie, Jacqueline, Colonizing Madness : Asylum and Community in Fiji / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introducing the Colonization of Madness into Fiji -- Chapter 2. Displaced Minds: Indo-Fijians and Mental Distress -- Chapter 3. Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, Community, and “Madness” -- Chapter 4. Mad Women -- Chapter 5. Diagnoses and Discourse of Mental Disorders -- Chapter 6. Struggling with Madness: Control, Treatments, and Resistance -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Recolonizing Mental Health in Postcolonial Fiji? -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introducing the Colonization of Madness into Fiji -- Chapter 2. Displaced Minds: Indo-Fijians and Mental Distress -- Chapter 3. Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, Community, and “Madness” -- Chapter 4. Mad Women -- Chapter 5. Diagnoses and Discourse of Mental Disorders -- Chapter 6. Struggling with Madness: Control, Treatments, and Resistance -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Recolonizing Mental Health in Postcolonial Fiji? -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
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