An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic

Author:   Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520300187


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic


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Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.  

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Author:   Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520300187


ISBN 10:   0520300181
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Entanglements Rupture: Chasing a Ghost 1 * Archiving Madness: From Colonial Psychiatry to the Establishment of Fann Interlude: Many Battles 2 * Origin Stories: Collomb's Fann and Senghor's Senegal Rupture: A Letter Unanswered 3 * Nostalgic for Modernity (Or, Looking Back on a Golden Age) Interlude: A Terrible Cry from the Past 4 * The Ink That Marked History Interlude: Each in His Corner 5 * Strategic Ambivalence Rupture: A Thing I Could Not See (The Joola) 6 * Distinctions of the Present Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Katie Kilroy-Marac is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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