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MADness, Religiosity and Environment: belief and materiality in community responses to mental difference and distress among early modern SEAfarers.

Descripción del proyecto

Estudiar la historia de la locura «desde abajo»

El enfoque psiquiátrico actual dado a la locura y a las enfermedades mentales ha evolucionado a partir de estudios limitados al ámbito nacional y al político. Sin embargo, la locura puede estar determinada por las comunidades, las creencias, el entorno material e inmaterial y los contextos culturales y sociales. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos MADSEA aplicará una metodología microhistórica para realizar un estudio comparativo con datos de archivo sobre la locura en el que utilizará como contexto la comunidad transnacional de los primeros marineros modernos en el duro entorno del océano. Se centrará en la interacción compleja de la religiosidad y el entorno en las vidas de los pacientes durante el siglo XVIII a fin de estudiar la locura con un enfoque inclusivo, en el que las experiencias colectivas, los entornos y la memoria histórica se comparten a través de las fronteras, siempre teniendo en cuenta los entornos y las creencias.

Objetivo

Madness is not only shaped by clinicians within the walls of asylums and psychiatric hospitals, but by ordinary people within communities. The non-material and material aspects of their lives, from belief and religiosity to physical environment, have driven individual and collective understanding, experiences and responses to mental difference and distress throughout history. Through shared cultures and experience, these community contexts can extend across the national and political boundaries which have dominated studies in the history of madness and psychiatry. MADSEA's primary objective is to develop an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of madness in these transnational community contexts, inclusive of the complex interaction of belief (religiosity) and materiality (environment) in the lives of ordinary sufferers. It uses early modern seafarers as a spatial, socio-cultural frame for its investigation, as their shared mobility and exposure to the dynamic effects of the ocean transcended borders and left a rich historical record of the action of religiosity and environment in their lives. Employing a microhistorical approach, MADSEA undertakes an in-depth comparative archival study of the meaning and societal impact of madness in the records of the eighteenth-century Danish-Norwegian and British navies. Blending qualitative and quantitative methods, it achieves three further objectives: establish how seafaring communities understood madness; gauge the degree mental difference and distress were stigmatised or tolerated; and evidence a trans-European seafaring community culture and response towards madness, to demonstrate how religiosity and environment, rather than national boundaries, shape mental illness. As such, MADSEA provides researchers with an empirical foundation and innovative methodological toolkit for accessing and analysing the experiences of ordinary people outside modern clinical settings, revitalising the history of madness 'from below'.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 207 312,00
Dirección
NORREGADE 10
1165 Kobenhavn
Dinamarca

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Región
Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 207 312,00