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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Leckie, Jacqueline, author.     Subjects     Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Fiji.     Mentally ill -- Fiji -- Suva.     Asylums -- Fiji -- Suva -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Leckie, Jacqueline, author.       by title:      Colonizing madness :...         MARC Display

Colonizing madness : asylum and community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie. by Leckie, Jacqueline, author. Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020] Subjects Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Fiji.   Mentally ill -- Fiji -- Suva.   Asylums -- Fiji -- Suva -- History. ISBN:  9780824878009 (cloth) 0824878000 (cloth) Description:  x, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Introducing the colonization 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 362.19689 Le Lost 04/25/2023 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H 362.19689 Le Non Circulating   Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 362.19689 Le Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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