Pathways Of Patients At The Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum 1890 To 1907
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Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to 1907 by Rory du Plessis Pdf
About the publication Pathways of patients explores the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum during the superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees, from 1890 to 1907. The hallmark of Pathways of patients is an examination of the asylum’s casebooks to bring into view the humanity of the patients, their distinct personal experiences, and their individuality. The book is underpinned by an allied goal to retrieve the casebook narratives of the patients’ life stories, their acts of agency, and their pathways to and from the asylum, with a view to understanding and portraying the context of patient experiences at the time.
Public Intellectuals in South Africa by Chris Broodryk Pdf
This edited collection gives voice to neglected public intellectuals in the arts, humanities, and journalism in South Africa who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalized and silenced in South African history Edward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political significance. The essays in Public Intellectuals in South Africa apply this interpretive prism and activist principle to a South African context and tell the stories of well-known figures as well as some that have been mostly forgotten. They include Magema Fuze, John Dube, Aggrey Klaaste, Mewa Ramgobin and Koos Roets, alongside marginalized figures such as Elijah Makiwane, Mandisi Sindo, William Pretorius and Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees. The essays capture the thoughts and opinions of these historical figures, who the contributors argue are public intellectuals who spoke out against the corruption of power, promoted a progressive politics that challenged the colonial project and its legacies, and encouraged a sustained dissent of the political status quo. Offering fascinating accounts of the life and work of these writers, critics and activists across a range of historical contexts and disciplines, from journalism and arts criticism to history and politics, it enriches the historical record of South African public intellectual life. This volume makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the value of research in the arts and humanities, and what constitutes public intellectualism in South Africa.
This volume captures the status of digital humanities within the Arts in South Africa. The primary research methodology falls within the broader tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics, with a specific emphasis on visual hermeneutics. Some of the tools utilised as part of the visual hermeneutic methods are geographic information system (GIS) mapping, sensory ethnography and narrative pathways. Digital humanities is positioned here as the necessary engagement of the humanities with the pervasive digital culture of the 21st century. It is posited that the humanities and arts, in particular, have an essential role to play in unlocking meaning from scientific, technological and data-driven research. The critical engagement with digital humanities is foregrounded throughout the volume, as this crucial engagement works through images. Images (as understood within image studies) are not merely another form of text but always more than text. As such, this book is the first of its kind in the South African scholarly landscape, and notably also a first on the African continent. Its targeted audience include both scholars within the humanities, particularly in the arts and social sciences. Researchers pursuing the new field of digital humanities may also find the ideas presented in this book significant. Several of the chapters analyse the question of dealing with digital humanities through representations of the self as viewed from the Global South. However, it should be noted that self-representation is not the only area covered in this volume. The latter chapters of the book discuss innovative ways of implementing digital humanities strategies and methodologies for teaching and researching in South Africa.
Voices in the History of Madness by Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor Pdf
This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses. Today, the development of service-user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. This edited collection of interdisciplinary chapters offers new and innovative perspectives on mental health and illness in the past and covers a breadth of opinions, views, and interpretations from patients, practitioners, policy makers, family members and wider communities. Its chronology runs from the early modern period to the twenty-first century and includes international and transnational analyses from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of sources and methodologies including oral histories, material culture, and the built environment. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Embodiment and the Arts: Views from South Africa by Jenni Lauwrens Pdf
About the publication Embodiment and the Arts: Views from South Africa presents a diversity of views on the nature and status of the body in relation to acting, advertisements, designs, films, installations, music, photographs, performance, typography, and video works. Applying the methodologies of phenomenology, hermeneutic phenomenology, embodied perception, ecological psychology, and sense-based research, the authors place the body at the centre of their analyses. The cornerstone of the research presented here is the view that aesthetic experience is active and engaged rather than passive and disinterested. This novel volume offers a rich and diverse range of applications of the paradigm of embodiment to the arts in South Africa. Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments Notes on contributors PART 1 Conceptualising embodiment and the arts Chapter 1 Embodiment and the arts in context Jenni Lauwrens 1 Plotting a course 2 Embodiment 3 Aesthetic embodiment 4 The sensorium 5 Too deep for words? 6 Overview of chapters Chapter 2 Enactive cognition in improvising musical ensembles: A South African perspective Marc Duby 1 Introduction 2 The promise of embodied cognition 3 4E cognition: A brief overview 4 Musicking and enactive cognition 5 Conclusion PART 2: Sensory scholarship Chapter 3 Sight/site-specific recording: Embodiment and absence Marc Röntsch 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Embodiment and artistic research 4 Jazz ensemble playing 5 Blinding 6 On absence 7 Conclusion Chapter 4 The art of touch in remote online environments Jenni Lauwrens 1 Introduction 2 The significance and boundaries of touch 3 Out of touch 4 Holding hands over the internet: Telepresence, co-presence and the promise of digital touch 5 Chasing the Holy Grail of touch 6 Haptic visuality and the memory of touch 7 Conclusion Chapter 5 Outer space and sensory deprivation (or why is outer space so bland?) Amanda du Preez 1 Introduction 2 On blandness 3 What does outer space smell, taste and look like? 4 Falling down or falling up? 5 Gravity mimicked 6 Unfolding within the fourfold 7 Conclusion Chapter 6 The typographic sensorium: A cross-modal reading of letterforms Kyle Rath 1 Introduction: Function(s) of type 2 Design and the typographic sensorium 2.1 Sight: Type as image 2.2 Touch: Type as haptic and kinaesthetic 2.3 Sound: Type as wave-form 2.4 Olfaction: Type as scent and taste 3 Conclusion PART 3: Material presence Chapter 7 A haptic and humanising reading of the subjects of studio portraits and asylum photography in colonial South Africa Rory du Plessis 1 Introduction 2 The Black Photo Album 3 Interpreting photographs from the Orange Free State Asylum, c 1900 3.1 First encounter 3.2 Second encounter 4 Conclusion Chapter 8 Athi-Patra Ruga’s politics of disorientation: Queer(y)ing threads Adéle Adendorff 1 Introduction 2 Spinning tales and fashioning avatars 3 The politics of disorientation 3.1 Queer(y)ing phenomenology 3.2 Miss Congo and the table in the drawing-room 4 Casting off: Tying up loose threads Chapter 9 Seeing an image at the University of Pretoria’s Africana collection in context Sikho Siyotula 1 Introduction 2 The grass at the University of Pretoria’s gates 3 The world visualised in Ethnic map of Southern Africa 4 Visualising the Nguni estate or Shakan period 5 Visualising the Mapungubwe and Zimbabwe estate 6 Conclusion PART 4: Embodied performance and composition Chapter 10 Navigating dissonance: Bodymind and character congruency in acting Èmil Haarhoff, Marth Munro and Marié-Heleen Coetzee 1 Introduction 2 Bodymind and embodiment 3 Acting as an embodied craft 4 Actor-character dissonance and heightened awareness 5 Navigating actor-character dissonance 5.1 Choice and reappraisal 5.2 Actively applying heightened bodymind awareness 6 Conclusion Chapter 11 Advocating the importance of nonverbal communication in multimodal actor training Elri Wium and Janine Lewis 1 Introduction 2 Case control study 3 Nonverbal communication as an analysis model 4 Discussion of syncretic behavioural communication design 5 Data collection and analysis through a mixed-methods approach 5.1 Observation study 5.2 Analysis of habitual characterisation (coded narrative recordings) 5.3 Assessing the semi-structured interviews 6 Conclusion Chapter 12 Embodied composition ontologies, process and technology: Gesture heuristics and creative potential in music Miles Warrington 1 Introduction 2 Creative spaces 3 Compositional approaches, processes and models 3.1 Gesture schemas and embodiment of sound 3.2 Gesture signification 3.3 Problem solving and gesture models 3.4 Hyperinstruments 4 Conclusion Index
Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective by Rebecca Wynter,Jennifer Wallis,Rob Ellis Pdf
This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter “The New Socialist Citizen and ‘Forgetting’ Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com.
Sites of Conscience by Elisabeth Punzi,Linda Steele Pdf
Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community – has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished. Sites of Conscience explores use of the concept of sites of conscience, which involves place-based memory activities such as walking tours, survivor-authored social histories, and performances and artistic works in or generated from sites of systemic suffering and injustice. These activities offer new ways to move forward from the unfinished deinstitutionalization project and its failures. Covering diverse national contexts, this volume proposes that acknowledging the memories and lived experiences of former residents – and keeping histories and social heritage of institutions alive rather than simply closing sites – holds the greatest potential for recognition, accountability, and action.
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain by John Tosh Pdf
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991). Here he brings together nine key articles which he has written over the past ten years. These pieces document the aspirations of the first contributors to the field, and the development of an agenda of key historical issues which have become central to our conceptualising of gender in history. Later essays take up the issue of periodisation and the relationship of masculinity to other historical identities and structures, particularly in the context of the family. The last two essays, published for the first time, approach British imperial history in a fresh way. They argue that the empire needs to be seen as a specifically male enterprise, answering to masculine aspirations and insecurities. This leads to illuminating insights into the nature of colonial emigration and the popular investment in empire during the era the New Imperialism.
Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society by Stef Eastoe Pdf
This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.
Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic by Jonathan Stadler Pdf
This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.
Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam by Effie Karageorgos Pdf
The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam battlefields reveal that their reactions to the war they were fighting were surprisingly unlike those on the home fronts from which they came. Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam follows these combat men from enlistment to the war front and analyses their words alongside theories of soldiering to demonstrate the transformation of soldiers as a response to developments in military procedure, as well as changing civilian opinion. In this way, the book illustrates the strength of a soldier's link to their home front lives.
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody by Jonathan Andrews,Anne Digby Pdf
This volume had its origin in a stimulating seminar series devoted to historical perspectives on gender and class in the history of psychiatry. The papers presented outlined a number of important perspectives on the place of gender and class within the history of psychiatry and, more broadly, medicine and society. There were also considerable inter-relationships between the various thematic strands developed in the papers - so much so, that organisers, speakers and participants alike were keen to see a published outcome.
Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics by Nigel C. Gibson,Roberto Beneduce Pdf
The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is in part because most of his psychiatric writings have remained untranslated. With a focus on Fanon’s key psychiatry texts, Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon’s psychiatic writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon’s better known work, written between 1952 and 1961 (Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution, The Wretched of the Earth). Both clinical and political, they draw on another notion of psychiatry that intersects history, ethnology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. The authors argue that Fanon’s work inaugurates a critical ethnopsychiatry based on a new concept of culture (anchored to historical events, particular situations, and lived experience) and on the relationship between the psychological and the cultural. Thus, Gibson and Beneduce contend that Fanon’s psychiatric writings also express Fanon’s wish, as he puts it in The Wretched of the Earth, to “develop a new way of thinking, not only for us but for humanity.”
