H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

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

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-02-01 → 2024-01-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 207 312 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Връзката между вярванията, средата и психическото здраве при моряците в датско-норвежкия и британския флот през 18-ти век е в центъра на анализа. Това помага да се разбере как общностите са възприемали и приемали психическите разстройства извън болниците и националните граници.

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

Our understanding of mental illness has been shaped by the study of experiences of mental difference, disturbance and distress within the walls of psychiatric hospitals and asylums, often within single national contexts. Yet human experiences are rarely so neatly confined to institutional and political boundaries, especially experiences of madness. The non-material and material aspects of ordinary peoples’ lives, from their religiosity to the physical world within which they lived, moved and worked, have driven individual and collective understanding, experiences and responses to mental difference and distress throughout history. Shared cultures and experiences create community contexts that extend across borders and challenge national narratives, but have been difficult to study. Early modern seafarers, a group whose shared transnational experience of the ocean environment meant they often had more in common with each other than their compatriots on land, provide us with a valuable opportunity to understand the intersection of belief, environment, community and madness outside of national and institutional limits. MADSEA's primary objective has been to develop a methodology for the study of madness in these transnational community contexts, inclusive of the complex interaction of belief and environment in the lives of ordinary sufferers. Through its in-depth comparative archival study of the meaning and societal impact of mental difference, disturbance and distress in the records of the 18th-century Danish-Norwegian and British navies, it achieves three further objectives: establishing how seafaring communities understood madness; gauging the degree to which mental difference and distress were stigmatised or tolerated within these dangerous environments; and testing the extent of a trans-European seafaring community culture and response to madness, to demonstrate the importance of a transnational approach to understanding mental illness.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

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'.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNКоординаторДания