(Ebook) Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968 by Lynette Jackson ISBN 9781501725791, 1501725793

(Ebook) Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968 by Lynette Jackson ISBN 9781501725791, 1501725793

Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type."