Political Issues in Ireland Today
Manchester University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 5. August 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7190-5404-4 (ISBN)
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This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry. -- .
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2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5404-4 (9780719054044)
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Content
Direction of constitutional change, David Morgan; women's issues, Yvonne Galligan; European Union and Ireland, Brigid Laffan; citizen and consumers - new forms of public services, Patrick Butler and Neil Collins; local and regional reforms, Colin Knox and Richard Haslam; ethics as politics, Neil Collins and Terry Cradden; economic issues, John Considine and Eoin O'Leary; environmental issues, Lee McGovern; health policy, Denise McAlister, Marie Brady and Leslie Carswell; industrial relations, Terry Cradden; housing policy, Yvonne Galligan.