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Bedlam on the streets
Author
Title
Bedlam on the streets / Caroline Knowles, with photography by Ludovic Dabert.
ISBN
0203995937 (electronic bk.)
9780203995938 (electronic bk.)
0415232988
0415232996
9780415232982
9780415232999
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
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Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Bedlam on the Streets explores the interplay between madness, race/ethnicity and the city, and traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, rooming houses, shopping malls and fast food joints. Caroline Knowles situates this social geography of madness within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare, globalization and race, arguing that the 'community mental health care' system is a system of neglect. A richly textured visual/spatial ethnography, this 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."--Jacket.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Persons with Mental Disabilities.
Community Mental Health Services
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