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Sites of Conscience charts the importance of public engagement with histories, memories, and lived experiences of institutions in forging new directions in social justice with and for disabled people and people experiencing mental distress, in a context where deinstitutionalization has failed to fully recognise, redress, and repair the ongoing impacts of institutions.
List of contents
Introduction: Sites of Conscience and the Unfinished Project of Deinstitutionalization /
Linda Steele and Elisabeth PunziPart 1: Centring Survivor Voices and Experiences in the "Afterlives" of Disability and Psychiatric Institutions1 Historical Memory, Anti-psychiatry, and Mad People's History /
Geoffrey Reaume2 Contested Memorialization: Filling the "Empty Space" of the T4 Murders /
Elena Demke3 Names on Frosted Glass: From Fetishizing Perpetrator Mindsets to Disability Memorialization of the Victims /
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder4 Truth, Reconciliation, and Disability Institutionalization in Massachusetts /
An interview with Alex Green5 "I'm Not Really Here": Searching for Traces of Institutional Survivors in Their Records /
Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter6 Listening to Peat Island: Planning, Press Coverage, and Deinstitutional Violence at a Potential Site of Conscience /
Justine Lloyd and Nicole Matthews7 "The Old Concept of Asylum Has a Valid Place": Patient Experiences of Mental Hospitals as Therapeutic /
Verusca Calabria and Rob EllisPart 2: Learning from Sites-of-Conscience Practices8 Benevolent Asylum: Performance Art, Memory, and Decommissioned Psychiatric Institutions /
A conversation with Bec Dean, Lily Hibberd, and Wart9 Constructing History in the Post-institutional Era: Disability Theatre as a Site of Critique /
Niklas Altermark and Matilda Svensson Chowdhury10 The Workhouse and Infirmary Southwell: Collaboration with Learning-Disabled Neighbours and Partners /
An interview with Janet Overfield-Shaw11 Intellectual Disability in South Africa: Affirmative Stories and Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1920 /
Rory du Plessis12 Pathways to Disrupt Eugenics in Higher Education /
Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice13 "You Just Want to Do What's Right": Staff Collusion in Institutional Abuse of People with Learning Disabilities /
Nigel Ingham, Jan Walmsley, and Liz TilleyPart 3: Social Justice and Place Making in the Absence of Sites of Conscience14 A Place to Have a Cup of Coffee: Remembering and Returning to a Dismantled Psychiatric Hospital /
Helena Lindbom and Elisabeth Punzi15 A Sense of Community within a Site of Amplified Stigma: The Strange Case of Spookers /
Robin Kearns, Graham Moon, and Gavin Andrews16 Naming Streets in a Post-asylum Landscape: Cultural Heritage Processes and the Politics of Ableism /
Cecilia Rodéhn17 "We Bent the Motorway": Community Action on Exminster Hospital /
Nicole BaurList of Contributors; Index
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Edited by Elisabeth Punzi and Linda Steele
Summary
Sites of Conscience charts the importance of public engagement with histories, memories, and lived experiences of institutions in forging new directions in social justice with and for disabled people and people experiencing mental distress, in a context where deinstitutionalization has failed to fully recognise, redress, and repair the ongoing impacts of institutions.
