Bedlam on the Streets

ISBN-13: 9780415232999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str.

Caroline Knowles

Opis

What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go? This work traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. Caroline Knowles situates this social geography of madness within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the community mental health care system is a system of neglect. A textured visual/spatial ethnography, the author combines photographic images of people and places with an examination of city space and the voices of schizophrenics. These provide harrowing testimony of the terrifying descent into madness in their stories of daily life marked by vulnerability and dangerousness.

Recenzje

'Bedlam more than succeeds ... its methodological plurality and ethico-political standpoint work together admirably.' - Sociology

Spis treści

1. Voice, Image and Text 2. Madness and the Grammar of Urban Space 3. Interior Space, Aesthetics and Subjectivities 4. Living in Transit 5. 'Schizophrenic' Lives 6. Dangerousness and Endangerment 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Caroline Knowles