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Insanity, Identity and Empire - Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Paperback)
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Insanity, Identity and Empire - Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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Loot Price R597
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Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial
social identities inside the institutions for the insane in
Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient
records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and
class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied
journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they
stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of
the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were
told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in
the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having
engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the
varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine,
historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants,
military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'.
This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of
this inquiry. -- .
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