Street Names and the Narration of Madness in a Post-Asylum Landscape
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| Názov: | Street Names and the Narration of Madness in a Post-Asylum Landscape |
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| Autori: | Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977 |
| Zdroj: | Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry Narratives and Mental Health. :122-142 |
| Predmety: | Mad Studies, Cultural heritage, Street Names, Post-Asylum Landscape, Psychiatric hospital, Genusvetenskap, Gender Studies, Social and Economic Geography, Kulturgeografi, Kulturvård, Conservation |
| Popis: | The aim of this article is to discuss street naming at Ulleråker, a former psychiatric hospital located in the town Uppsala in southeastern Sweden. Specifically, the article explores streets named after Gustaf Fröding’s poems: what kinds of stories are narrated in the urban landscape when Fröding’s poems are used as inspiration for street names? Fröding (1860–1911) is a well-known Swedish writer and poet who was an inmate at Ulleråker. Furthermore, the article explores the cultural heritage this produces in the post-asylum landscape. The street-naming process and the street names are subjected to a mad reading, and the article adopts theories and methodologies from Critical Heritage Studies, Human Geography, and Mad Studies. I argue that the street naming builds on sanist discourses that further gendered and classed stereotypes of people diagnosed with mental distress. These discourses are then subverted, and the article shows how the street names narrate and materialize different kinds of experiences of madness in the post-asylum landscape. |
| Popis súboru: | electronic |
| Prístupová URL adresa: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-548727 https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1932066/FULLTEXT01.pdf |
| Databáza: | SwePub |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | The aim of this article is to discuss street naming at Ulleråker, a former psychiatric hospital located in the town Uppsala in southeastern Sweden. Specifically, the article explores streets named after Gustaf Fröding’s poems: what kinds of stories are narrated in the urban landscape when Fröding’s poems are used as inspiration for street names? Fröding (1860–1911) is a well-known Swedish writer and poet who was an inmate at Ulleråker. Furthermore, the article explores the cultural heritage this produces in the post-asylum landscape. The street-naming process and the street names are subjected to a mad reading, and the article adopts theories and methodologies from Critical Heritage Studies, Human Geography, and Mad Studies. I argue that the street naming builds on sanist discourses that further gendered and classed stereotypes of people diagnosed with mental distress. These discourses are then subverted, and the article shows how the street names narrate and materialize different kinds of experiences of madness in the post-asylum landscape. |
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| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004519848_009 |