Sites of Conscience

Introduction: Sites of Conscience and the Unfinished Project of Deinstitutionalization / Linda Steele and Elisabeth Punzi

Part 1: Centring Survivor Voices and Experiences in the “Afterlives” of Disability and Psychiatric Institutions

1 Historical Memory, Anti-psychiatry, and Mad People’s History / Geoffrey Reaume

2 Contested Memorialization: Filling the “Empty Space” of the T4 Murders / Elena Demke

3 Names on Frosted Glass: From Fetishizing Perpetrator Mindsets to Disability Memorialization of the Victims / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

4 Truth, Reconciliation, and Disability Institutionalization in Massachusetts / An interview with Alex Green

5 “I’m Not Really Here”: Searching for Traces of Institutional Survivors in Their Records / Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter

6 Listening to Peat Island: Planning, Press Coverage, and Deinstitutional Violence at a Potential Site of Conscience / Justine Lloyd and Nicole Matthews

7 “The Old Concept of Asylum Has a Valid Place”: Patient Experiences of Mental Hospitals as Therapeutic / Verusca Calabria and Rob Ellis

Part 2: Learning from Sites-of-Conscience Practices

8 Benevolent Asylum: Performance Art, Memory, and Decommissioned Psychiatric Institutions / A conversation with Bec Dean, Lily Hibberd, and Wart

9 Constructing History in the Post-institutional Era: Disability Theatre as a Site of Critique / Niklas Altermark and Matilda Svensson Chowdhury

10 The Workhouse and Infirmary Southwell: Collaboration with Learning-Disabled Neighbours and Partners / An interview with Janet Overfield-Shaw

11 Intellectual Disability in South Africa: Affirmative Stories and Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890–1920 / Rory du Plessis

12 Pathways to Disrupt Eugenics in Higher Education / Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice

13 “You Just Want to Do What’s Right”: Staff Collusion in Institutional Abuse of People with Learning Disabilities / Nigel Ingham, Jan Walmsley, and Liz Tilley

Part 3: Social Justice and Place Making in the Absence of Sites of Conscience

14 A Place to Have a Cup of Coffee: Remembering and Returning to a Dismantled Psychiatric Hospital / Helena Lindbom and Elisabeth Punzi

15 A Sense of Community within a Site of Amplified Stigma: The Strange Case of Spookers / Robin Kearns, Graham Moon, and Gavin Andrews

16 Naming Streets in a Post-asylum Landscape: Cultural Heritage Processes and the Politics of Ableism / Cecilia Rodéhn

17 “We Bent the Motorway”: Community Action on Exminster Hospital / Nicole Baur

List of Contributors; Index