Plaques, Politics and Preservation: Publicly Memorialising Mad Peopleâs Labour History

Geoffrey Reaume

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Chapter 6 Plaques, Politics and Preservation: Publicly Memorialising Mad Peopleâs Labour History

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519848_008

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Activist efforts to preserve and publicly memorialise nineteenth century patient built boundary walls at the former Toronto Asylum for the Insane will be analysed in the context of critically re-interpreting an asylumâs past while working with psychiatric facility administrators to ensure this material history is not destroyed and patientsâ labour history is properly acknowledged. Issues around co-option of this history by psychiatrists as well as some historiansâ reaction against activist efforts will be critiqued by discussing the politics of memorialising marginalized groups in history and how these efforts challenge traditional interpretations, in this case, mad peoplesâ unpaid work as exploitation rather than therapy.

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Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry

Series:Â Narratives and Mental Health, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004519848

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Oct 2024

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