New and emerging research on the history and geography of Scottish ‘madness’, asylums and psychiatry
Call for Papers: 2016 Theme Issue for History of Psychiatry
Guest Editors: Jonathan Andrews (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University) and Chris Philo (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Rationale
Notwithstanding notable contributions from scholars such as Jonathan
Andrews, Mike Barfoot, Alan Beveridge, Gayle Davies, Rab Houston, Gavin
Miller, Iain Smith and others, it arguably remains the case that
Scottish psychiatry has tended to be the ‘Cinderella’ in the existing
historiography of British psychiatry. While the journal History of Psychiatry
has carried ‘country reports’ on both the historiography of and
substantive histories of psychiatry (expansively understood) in
different parts of the world, furnishing a rich vein of ‘regional’
surveys, nothing of this kind has yet occurred in the journal
specifically for Scotland.
The purpose of this proposed theme issue will be to rectify this absence, and in so doing to profile new and emerging research
in the field of work on Scottish ‘madness’, asylums and psychiatry,
particularly through giving a platform to a new generation of
researchers (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers or other early
career researchers) now starting to contribute new empirical evidence –
linked to fresh conceptual and methodological agendas – to our
understanding of ideas, practices, institutions and patient experiences
in this Scottish history. By bringing together a sample of their work,
together with an introductory essay contextualising their contributions,
the ambition will be to create a theme issue that is more than the sum
of its parts: one allowing – through covering a diversity of time
periods, types of ‘lunacy’ reforms and asylum/clinical provisions,
species of mental disorder, forms of treatment, experiences ‘from below’
of patients, etc. – to paint a reinvigorated overall picture of the
turbulent history and changing geography of the Scottish ‘mad-business’.
The envisaged temporal focus of the theme issue will be early-1700s
through to mid-1900s, although the editors would be prepared to consider
contributions tackling both earlier and later periods. The ambition is
that, while papers will report detailed empirical research on particular
situations, events, individuals, institutions, etc., there should be an
attempt in every paper to see its empirical focus within the context of
a broader narrative of key transitions within the past of Scottish
‘madness’, asylums and psychiatry. Moreover, some comparative sense,
alert to the possible distinctiveness of the Scottish case relative to
what has occurred elsewhere in the British Isles and beyond, would be
welcomed. It will be essential that authors demonstrate an awareness of
existing scholarship in the history of Scottish psychiatry, as well as
thoroughly explaining the nature and provenance of archival (or other
primary) sources employed in the empirical studies reported.
Potential contributors
Given the focus on ‘new and emerging research’, the anticipation is
that contributors will be PhD students and postdoctoral/early career
researchers (whose own PhD awards will likely have been in the last 10
years). Nonetheless, the editors would be prepared to hear from other
scholars who might not ‘fit’ these categories, provided that a case is
made about the novelty of the contribution being made to scholarship on
the history of Scottish psychiatry. No a priori preference will
be given to potential contributors from any particular institution or
part of the world, and the baseline criteria for inclusion will be the
quality of the paper submitted.
Individuals interested in contributing should sent a proposal to Jonathan Andrews (jonathan.andrews@ncl.ac.uk) and Chris Philo (Christopher.Philo@glasgow.ac.uk) by end of November 2014,
with suggested title, abstract (max. 200 words) and your contact
details. It is possible at this stage that we may deem a potential
contribution unsuitable or make suggestions about how it might usefully
be recast to be suitable. The go-ahead at this stage can be no guarantee
that a paper will be published in the journal (which will depend entirely on how it fares in the usual refereeing process).
Papers should be submitted by end of June 2015 via e-mail as WORD attachments simultaneously to both the journal editor, German E. Berrios (gebll@cam.ac.uk), and the theme issue guest editors, Jonathan Andrews (jonathan.andrews@ncl.ac.uk) and Chris Philo (Christopher.Philo@glasgow.ac.uk).
Andrews and Philo will coordinate the refereeing of the papers, with
oversight from Berrios. In the event that more papers successfully
negotiate the refereeing process than can be accommodated in the theme
issue itself, the journal would undertake to publish ones not selected
for the theme issue in subsequent general issues of the journal. It
should be underlined that the decisions to publish or not will be based
squarely on the referees’ reports and approved by Berrios.
Submissions
Papers should be prepared according to the Notes for Contributors provided in the journal, and the absolute maximum length should be 10,000 words (including notes and references).
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