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This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the
years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new
generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for
psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric
practices were tied to shifting political and development
priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of
transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a
question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the
mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap
between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival
research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this
question came to dominate both national and international
discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World
Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation
and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of
psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of
marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence,
the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.
How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture,
and society? This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an
analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention
to ways of thinking about African spaces--physical, visceral,
somatic, and imagined--as well as about time and temporality.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings
histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with
work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond
history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged for its ability
to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the
colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally complicate
contemporary narratives, such as those of sustainable development,
migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore
highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary
realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped
out.
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