cam a22 5 4500 594461812 CHVBK 20200815043517.0 190712s2020 xxu b||| 001 0 eng| 2019021696 978-0-8248-7800-9 cloth (IDSBB)007211473 (OCoLC)1098740140 HU/DLC ger SzZuIDS NEBIS UZH-ESZ SzZuIDS BS/BE rda RA790.7.F47 L43 2019 WM 11 LF4 362.196/890099611 23 Colonizing madness asylum and community in Fiji Jacqueline Leckie Honolulu, Hawaii University of Hawaiʻi Press [2020] x, 283 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references and index Introducing the colonalization of madness into Fiji -- Displaced minds: Indo-Fijians and mental distress -- Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, community and "madness" -- Mad women -- Diagnoses and discourse of mental disorders -- Struggling with madness: control, treatments, and resistance "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. 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. 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"-- Einrichtung (DE-588)4113393-6 gnd Heilanstalt (DE-588)4199848-0 gnd Kolonialismus (DE-588)4073624-6 gnd Wahnsinn (DE-588)4293233-6 gnd Mental illness Social aspects Fiji Mentally ill Fiji Suva Asylums Fiji Suva History Asylums fast Mental illness Social aspects fast Mentally ill fast Colonialism history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Hospitals, Psychiatric history Mental Disorders history Mental Disorders therapy Fidschi (DE-588)4017063-9 gnd Melanesien (DE-588)4038517-6 gnd Fiji fast Fiji Suva fast Fiji (DNLM)D005367 Leckie Jacqueline Verfasser aut BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB B583 B583 MAG IMG IDSBB 700 1- Leckie Jacqueline Verfasser aut SWISSBIB 584456123