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dc.contributor.author | Kurchina-Tyson, Adria | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-07T15:03:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-07T15:03:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017-08-16 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2790 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The recent circulation of ‘mental health literacy’ texts in mainstream North American media conceptualizes ‘mental illness’ in medicalized terms as a response to what is referred to as ‘stigma’. This paper examines the roots of psychiatry in white supremacy to investigate the visualized juxtaposition of a racialized ‘madness’ against a normalized ‘mental illness’. First I explore theoretically the concepts of madness and mental illness, the identity politics of both concepts, and how these are framed and distinguished in dominant discourses. Second, using critical discourse analysis I suggest how Marc Lepine and Vince Li’s acts of violence are attributed to the production of racialized madness in Canadian news media. I then examine how mental illness is normalized in campaign and documentary films. Reading mental health literacy media as a colonial text, this research finds that stigma is framed as a primitive social behaviour in order to reproduce colonial pathologies rooted in psychiatry. | en_CA |
dc.language.iso | en | en_CA |
dc.subject | mental illness | en_CA |
dc.subject | madness | en_CA |
dc.subject | nationalism | en_CA |
dc.subject | racism | en_CA |
dc.subject | classism | en_CA |
dc.subject | misogyny | en_CA |
dc.subject | white supremacy | en_CA |
dc.subject | colonialism | en_CA |
dc.subject | psychiatry | en_CA |
dc.subject | feminism | en_CA |
dc.title | Surveilling ‘stigma’: reading mental health literacy as a colonial text | en_CA |
dc.type | Thesis | en_CA |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) in Interdisciplinary Humanities | en_CA |
dc.publisher.grantor | Laurentian University of Sudbury | en_CA |
Appears in Collections: | Interdisciplinary Humanities- Master's Theses Master's Theses |
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