Sites of Conscience

Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
Herausgeber: Punzi, Elisabeth; Steele, Linda

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Produktbeschreibung

Sites of Conscience charts the importance of public engagement with histories, memories, and lived experiences of institutions in forging new directions in social justice with and for disabled people and people experiencing mental distress, in a context where deinstitutionalization has failed to fully recognise, redress, and repair the ongoing impacts of institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Disability Culture and Politics
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780774869331
• ISBN-10: 077486933X
• Artikelnr.: 71262503

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Punzi is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and the Center for Critical Heritage Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. With Christoph Singer and Cornelia Wächter, she is co-editor of Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing, and, with Annica Engström, of Mad Studies: Kulturarv och Konst. Linda Steele is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Disability, Criminal Justice, and Law. With Claire Spivakovsky and Penelope Weller, she is co-editor of The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the 'Deinstitutionalised' Community, and, with Gerard Goggin and Jessica Robyn Cadwallader, of Normalcy and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture. Contributors: Niklas Altermark, Gavin Andrews, Nicole Baur, Verusca Calabria, a conversation with Bec Dean, Lily Hibberd and Wart, Elena Demke, Rory du Plessis, Rob Ellis, Nigel Ingham, an interview with Alex Green, an interview with Janet Overfield-Shaw, Robin Kearns, Evadne Kelly, Helena Lindbom, Justine Lloyd, Nicole Matthews, David T. Mitchell, Graham Moon, Geoffrey Reaume, Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Cecilia Rodéhn, Kate Rossiter, Sharon L. Snyder, Matilda Svensson Chowdhury, Liz Tilley, Jan Walmsley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sites of Conscience and the Unfinished Project of
Deinstitutionalization / Linda Steele and Elisabeth Punzi
Part 1: Centring Survivor Voices and Experiences in the "Afterlives" of
Disability and Psychiatric Institutions
1 Historical Memory, Anti-psychiatry, and Mad People's History / Geoffrey
Reaume
2 Contested Memorialization: Filling the "Empty Space" of the T4 Murders /
Elena Demke
3 Names on Frosted Glass: From Fetishizing Perpetrator Mindsets to
Disability Memorialization of the Victims / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L.
Snyder
4 Truth, Reconciliation, and Disability Institutionalization in
Massachusetts / An interview with Alex Green
5 "I'm Not Really Here": Searching for Traces of Institutional Survivors in
Their Records / Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter
6 Listening to Peat Island: Planning, Press Coverage, and Deinstitutional
Violence at a Potential Site of Conscience / Justine Lloyd and Nicole
Matthews
7 "The Old Concept of Asylum Has a Valid Place": Patient Experiences of
Mental Hospitals as Therapeutic / Verusca Calabria and Rob Ellis
Part 2: Learning from Sites-of-Conscience Practices
8 Benevolent Asylum: Performance Art, Memory, and Decommissioned
Psychiatric Institutions / A conversation with Bec Dean, Lily Hibberd, and
Wart
9 Constructing History in the Post-institutional Era: Disability Theatre as
a Site of Critique / Niklas Altermark and Matilda Svensson Chowdhury
10 The Workhouse and Infirmary Southwell: Collaboration with
Learning-Disabled Neighbours and Partners / An interview with Janet
Overfield-Shaw
11 Intellectual Disability in South Africa: Affirmative Stories and
Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1920 / Rory du
Plessis
12 Pathways to Disrupt Eugenics in Higher Education / Evadne Kelly and
Carla Rice
13 "You Just Want to Do What's Right": Staff Collusion in Institutional
Abuse of People with Learning Disabilities / Nigel Ingham, Jan Walmsley,
and Liz Tilley
Part 3: Social Justice and Place Making in the Absence of Sites of
Conscience
14 A Place to Have a Cup of Coffee: Remembering and Returning to a
Dismantled Psychiatric Hospital / Helena Lindbom and Elisabeth Punzi
15 A Sense of Community within a Site of Amplified Stigma: The Strange Case
of Spookers / Robin Kearns, Graham Moon, and Gavin Andrews
16 Naming Streets in a Post-asylum Landscape: Cultural Heritage Processes
and the Politics of Ableism / Cecilia Rodéhn
17 "We Bent the Motorway": Community Action on Exminster Hospital / Nicole
Baur
List of Contributors; Index