192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go? This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. This social geography of madness is situated within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the... Read more
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 8. Conclusion
Biography
Caroline Knowles
'Bedlam more than succeeds ... its methodological plurality and ethico-political standpoint work together admirably.' - Sociology
