O discurso psiquiátrico e a ideologia colonial na África britânica
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2016v9n18p467Palavras-chave:
Africa colonial britânica, Etnopsiquiatria, Discurso científico, Movimentos nacionalistas, Ideologia colonialResumo
Os estudos psiquiátricos produzidos por europeus durante o período colonial sobre disfunções mentais entre os africanos colaboram para uma reflexão sobre as normativas e paradigmas das ciências humanas. Considerando a afirmação de michel foucault de que a loucura nas sociedades ocidentais modernas se trata de um discurso constitutivo de relações de poder, o presente artigo investiga como os estados coloniais britânicos na áfrica procuraram exercer poder e controle por meio de teorias etnopsiquiátricas e seus discursos. Estudos psiquiátricos na áfrica colonial abrem a possibilidade de interpretação do que era considerado patológico e normal naquele contexto e oferecem significativas evidências sobre a ambiguidade nas conclusões alcançadas por seus médicos e pesquisadore s. Este ensaio explora um conjunto de produções psiquiátricas entre os anos de 1920-1960, período marcado pelo desencadeamento de uma série de movimentos nacionalistas e pró-independência na áfrica colonial britânica. O principal objetivo é elucidar a aliança entre a medicina ocidental e a autoridade colonial a fim de promover o controle das forças coloniais sobre a população africana. Concluiu-se que durante o processo de descolonização na áfrica, quando a força dominante estava em constante atrito com a população negra nativa, o conhecimento psiquiátrico ganhou o papel de elemento legitimador da missão civilizatória.Métricas
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CAROTHERS, J. C. A Study of Mental Derangement in Africans and an Attempt to Explain its Peculiarities, More Especially in Relation to the African Attitude to Life. The Journal of Mental Science, London, v. 93, p. 548-597, 1947.
CAROTHERS, J. C. Frontal Lobe Function and the African. The Journal of Mental Science, London, v. 97, n. 406, p. 12-48, 1951.
CAROTHERS, J. C. Some Speculations on Insanity in Africans in General. East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, v. 17, p.90-105, 1940.
CAROTHERS, J. C. The African Mind in Health and Disease. Geneva: World Health Organization. 1953.
CAROTHERS, J. C. The Psychology of Mau Mau. Nairobi: Government Printer, 1954.
CHANOCK, Martin. Law, Custom and Social Order: the colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987.
CLEARY, A. S. The Myth of Mau Mau in its International Context. African Affairs, London, v. 89, n. 355, p. 215-238, 1990.
DECRAENE, Philippe. O Pan-Africanismo. São Paulo: Difusão europeia do livro, 1962.
DUBOW, Saul. Wulf Sach's Black Hamlet: A Case of Psychic Vivisection?. African Affairs, London, v. 92, p. 519-556, 1993.
EDGERTON, R. B. Mau Mau: An African Crucible. New York: Free Press, 1989.
ELIAS, Norbert. The Civilising Process: State Formation and Civilization. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1978.
FANON, Frantz. Pele negra, máscaras brancas. Salvador: EDUFBA. 2008.
FANON, Frantz. The North African Syndrome. In: FANON, Frantz. Toward the African Revolution. Translation Haakon Chevalier. London: Pelican Books. 1967. p 13-26.
FANON, Frantz. Madness and Civilization. London: Random House. 1989
FANON, Frantz. Michel Foucault: power and knowledge. Sussex: Hassocks. 1980.
FREUD, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo. Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Translation A. A. Brill. New York: Vintage Books. 1946.
GERMAN, G. A. Mental Health in Africa 1. The extent of mental health problems in Africa today: An Update of Epidemiological Knowledge. British Journal of Psychiatry, London, v. 151, p. 435-439, 1987.
GILMAN, Sander. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. New York: Ithaca. 1985.
GORDON, H. L. An Inquiry into the correlation of Civilization and Mental Disorders. East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, v. 12. p. 327-335. 1935-6
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HABTE, A.; WAGAW. Educação e mudança social. In: MAZRUI, Ali A. (Ed.). História geral da África. VIII: África desde 1935. Brasília: UNESCO, 2010. p. 817-844.
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KELLER, R. Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962. Journal of Social History, Pittsburgh, v. 35, n. 2, p. 295-321, 2001.
KIRBY, M. The Unhappiness of the Kikuyu: Or the Seeds of Mau Mau. East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, v. 10, p. 529-532, 1957.
LAUBSCHER, B. J. F. Sex, Custom and Psychopathology: A study of South African Pagan natives. London: George Routledge, 1937.
MANNONI, Octave. Prospero and Caliban. London: Oxford, 1956.
MCCULLOCH, J. Black Peril, White Virtue. Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia 1902-1935. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
MCCULLOCH, J. Colonial Psychiatry and "the African mind". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
MCCULLOCH, J. The Emperor's New Clothes: Ethnopsychiatry in Colonial Africa. History of the Human Sciences, London, v. 6, n. 2, p. 35-52, 1993.
ODA, A. M. G. R.; BANZATO, A. E. M.; DALGALARRONDO, P. Some origins of cross-cultural psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, London, v.16, n. 2, p. 155-169, 2005.
OGOT, B. A. (Ed.). Hadith 4: Politics and Nationalism in Colonial Kenya. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1972.
PAPE, J. Black and White: The Perils of Sex in Colonial Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies, London, v. 16, n. 4, p. 31-49, 1990.
PHIRI, D. D. Malawians to Remember: John Chilembwe. Lilongwe: Longman, 1976.
POWER, Joey. Political culture and nationalism in Malawi: building Kwacha. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2010.
RITCHIE, J. F. The African as Suckling and as Adult: A Psychological Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1968.
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Do contrato social [1762]. Ensaio sobre a origem das línguas. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1978. (Coleção Os Pensadores).
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Discurso sobre a origem e os fundamentos da desigualdade entre os homens [1755]; Discurso sobre as ciências e as artes [1750]. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1993.
SADOWSKY, Jonathan. Psychiatry and Colonial Ideology in Nigeria. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Baltimore, v.71, n. 1, p. 94-111, 1997.
SHELLEY, H.; WATSON, H. W. An Investigation Concerning Mental Disorder in the Nyasaland natives. The Journal of Mental Science, London, v. 82, p. 702-725, 1936.
SIMONS, H. J. Mental Disease in Africans: Racial Determinism. The Journal of Mental Science, London, v. 104, p. 377-88, 1985.
VAUGHAN, Megan. Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991.
VAUGHAN, Megan. Idioms of Madness: Zomba Lunatic Asylum, Nyasaland, in the Colonial Period. Journal of Southern Africa Studies, London, v. 9, n. 2, p. 218-238, 1983.
VINT, F. W. A Preliminary Note on the Cell Content of the Prefrontal Cortex of the East African Native. East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, v. 9, p. 30-55, 1932-1933.
WILKINSON, J. The Mau Mau Movement: Some General and Medical Aspects. East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, v. 7, p. 294-314, 1954.
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SANTOS, G. S. O discurso psiquiátrico e a ideologia colonial na África britânica. Antíteses, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 18, p. 467–493, 2017. DOI: 10.5433/1984-3356.2016v9n18p467. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/20724. Acesso em: 19 abr. 2024.
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