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Ontological boundaries or contextual borders: the urban ethics of the asylum
- Source :
- Urban Planning, Built environment, ethics and everyday life, Urban Planning, Vol 5, Iss 4 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- PRT, 2020.
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Abstract
- What and where is ‘the asylum’ today? To what extent do mental healthcare facilities stand out as clearly bounded entities in the modern urban landscape, perhaps reflecting their history as deliberately set-apart and then often stigmatised places? To what extent have they maybe become less obtrusive, more sunk into and interacting with their urban surroundings? What issues of urban ethics are at stake: concerning who/what is starkly demarcated in the city, perhaps subjected to exclusionary logics and pressures, or more sensitively integrated into the city, planned for inclusion and co-dwelling? These questions underscore our article, rooted in an in-depth case study of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, opened as a ‘lunatic asylum’ on its present, originally greenfield, site in the 1840s and remaining open today surrounded by dense urban expansion. Building from the ‘voices’ of patients, staff and others familiar with the site, we discuss the sense of this asylum as ‘other’ to, as ‘outside’ of, or merely ’beside’ the urban fabric. Drawing from concepts of ‘orientations’ (Ahmed, 2006), sites as spatial constructions (Burns & Kahn, 2005), the power of borders and boundaries (Haselsberger, 2014; Sennett, 2018), issues of site, stigma and related urban ethical matters will be foregrounded. Where are the boundaries that divide the hospital campus from the urban context? What are the material signifiers, the cultural associations or the emotional attachments that continue to set the boundaries? Or, in practice, do boundaries melt into messier, overlapping, intersecting border zones, textured by diverse, sometimes contradictory, bordering practices? And, if so, what are the implications? open access GART-PSYSPAC: discourse, dwelling, doing
- Subjects :
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
0211 other engineering and technologies
Social Sciences
Raum
02 engineering and technology
Umwelt
Boundary (real estate)
Sociology & anthropology
ddc:150
Human geography
Psychology
Sociology
hospital
ddc:710
Built environment
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
Krankenhaus
05 social sciences
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
021107 urban & regional planning
urban ethics
psychiatry
boundary
Aesthetics
symbols
ddc:301
050703 geography
environment
zone
Ethik
Inclusion (disability rights)
asylum
border
built environment
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Psychologie
0507 social and economic geography
Context (language use)
Human Geography
Messier object
Power (social and political)
lcsh:HT165.5-169.9
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Psychology
symbols.namesake
Stadt
town
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Landscaping and area planning
Kulturgeografi
Samhällsvetenskap
lcsh:City planning
ethics
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Urban Studies
Stigma
stigma
Psychologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Lunatic
Psychiatrie
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21837635
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urban Planning, Built environment, ethics and everyday life, Urban Planning, Vol 5, Iss 4 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ba92f70a11f1e64d269fb8b1506c6e64