Bedlam on the streets / Caroline Knowles, with photography by Ludovic Dabert.

Main entry:

Knowles, Caroline, 1954-

Title & Author:

Bedlam on the streets / Caroline Knowles, with photography by Ludovic Dabert.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415232988 (hbk.)
9780415232982 (hbk.)
0415232996 (pbk.)
9780415232999 (pbk.)
9780203995938
0203995937

Subject:

Mentally ill Care Québec (Province) Montréal.
Mentally ill Québec (Province) Montréal Social conditions.
Community mental health services Québec (Province) Montréal.
Mentally ill Deinstitutionalization Québec (Province) Montréal.
Mentally ill Services for Québec (Province) Montréal.
Mental health services Québec (Province) Montréal.
People with mental disabilities.
Community mental health services.
Community Mental Health Services
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Soins Québec (Province) Montréal.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Québec (Province) Montréal Conditions sociales.
Services communautaires de santé mentale Québec (Province) Montréal.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Désinstitutionnalisation Québec (Province) Montréal.
Services de santé mentale Québec (Province) Montréal.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Services Québec (Province) Montréal.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle.
Services communautaires de santé mentale.
people with mental disabilities.
Mental health services
Mentally ill Care
Mentally ill Deinstitutionalization
Mentally ill Services for
Mentally ill Social conditions
Social conditions
Waanzin.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Stadssociologie.
Thuislozen.
Montréal (Quebec : Province) Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) Conditions sociales.
Québec Montréal

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222065
Call No.: RC480.53 .K5 2000
Status: Available

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