Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Leckie, Jacqueline

Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781991016720)

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Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Leckie, Jacqueline

Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand

$40.00
Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Leckie, Jacqueline

Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.

Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie's timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.



Author: Jacqueline Leckie
ISBN-10: 1991016727
ISBN-13: 9781991016720
Publisher: Massey University
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2024
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
By Jacqueline Leckie
By Jacqueline Leckie
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Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Otepoti Dunedin. She was a former J. D. Stout research fellow and is now an adjunct research fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, and conjoint associate professor in the School of Creative Industries and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a fellow of the New Zealand Indian Research Institute, an affiliated researcher of Centre for Global Migrations (Otago), and co-editor of the Journal of Pacific History. She has taught at the University of the South Pacific, Kenyatta University and the University of Otago. Her publications have covered health history, the Indian diaspora, gender, ethnicity, and work within the Asia-Pacific. Her books include Invisible: New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians (2021), Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji (2020), Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (2007), To Labour with the State (1997), and A University for the Pacific: 50 Years of USP (2018).

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