Catharine Coleborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 157933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catharine Coleborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleborne |
| SIGNATURE | COLEBORNE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9289-4755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840–1910
Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world. Studying the language of v…
DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible
Critical Family History and Migration: Introductory Essay
Inspired by the work of Christine Sleeter and Avril Bell, among others, the articles that comprise this Special Issue seek to respond to questions focused on the relationship between family history and the processes of migration and colonisation and how this might impact on a family’s sense of itself today [...]
Co-producing madness: International perspectives on the public histories of mental illness
Public engagement is increasingly seen as an expected part of the armoury of the twenty-first century academic. With increased scrutiny on the humanities, stemming from a neo-liberal critique of their value, it appears to offer a relatively straightforward opportunity to demonstrate the real-world application of research beyond the ivory towers of academia. For historians of madness and mental ill health, the links between their findings and the …
From the margins: Madness and history in Australia
This Introduction situates the Australian scholarship on the histories of mental illness, madness, psychiatry and institutions in a wider perspective. It argues for the relevance and importance of histories of madness in our present
Goodna Girls: A History of Children in a Queensland Mental Asylum
Goodna Girls: A History of Children in a Queensland Mental Asylum." Australian Historical Studies, 52(2), pp. 309–310
Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850–1890s
Australasian colonies were promoted as ‘lands of opportunity’ for British medical practitioners of the Victorian period, but once there doctors often found that any problems they faced had travelled with them. Furthermore, the act of migration could add to personal difficulty. This article builds on existing work about the challenges confronting doctors in England, and on the potential of asylum records to address the consequences of migration, t…
Letters to Lizzie: Archival Practice and the Entangled Worlds of Charlie Fraser
Letters exchanged between immigrants and their relatives who remained ‘at home’ are recognised as a valuable resource for exploring identities and emotions in the formation of settler societies. This article departs from this cultural approach to focus instead on the materiality and mobility of the letters as ‘analogue’ sources of knowledge suitable for digitisation, and what this means for histories of place. Our case study traces the movement o…
Law, history, colonialism: The reach of empire
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection offers exciting new perspectives on the length and breadth of empire. As issues of native title, truth and reconciliation com…
The Power of Humanity: 100 Years of Australian Red Cross, 1914–2014
These two commissioned histories focus on national centenaries of the Red Cross. The commissions attracted fine authors and historians. In their careers, Oppenheimer and Tennant have written about
An end to Bedlam? The enduring subject of madness in social and cultural history
In the queue for the highly successful Wellcome Collection exhibition in London – ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’ – during its first public days in September 2016, I pondered the significance of the lengthy line snaking through the foyer, and the roped-off limit on new entrants. As I waited I anticipated visitors’ reactions. Was this the new face of public knowledge about mental health, and interest in its history? Have we always been so interest…
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, the book pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis. The book reminds us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies: and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is…
Insanity, identity and empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, the book pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis. The book reminds us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies: and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is…
Histories of Nation and Place, Australian Style
Louise Hide, Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914
Journal Article Louise Hide, Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914 Get access Louise Hide, Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 256. £60. ISBN 978 1 137 32142 8. Catharine Coleborne Catharine Coleborne University of Waikato [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 2, M…
White men and weak masculinity: Men in the public asylums in Victoria, Australia, and New Zealand, 1860s–1900s
This article reveals a set of formulations of masculine identity through the fragments of extant casebook evidence from nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions in Victoria, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand. It shows that some patterns in the identification of masculinity and insanity emerge, also highlighting the relevance of individual stories and ‘cases’ to fully understand how masculine identities were fashioned through medical institu…
Museums and Mental Health
For this edition of Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, we have asked a group of museum practitioners to respond to a thought-provoking article about a Taiwanese project that explored the particular needs of visitors diagnosed with schizophrenia. Allegaert, Besley, Coleborne, Chynoweth, Gale, and Sirik have used Chen et al.’s article as a jumping off point from which to write on the broader topic of mental health provision in museums’ engagement…
Challenging White Australia’
The articles published in this issue reflect two dominant currents of Australian historiography in the last few decades: war and immigration restriction.Historians have complicated the history of i
Australia: Present and Past Histories
This issue of Australian Historical Studies speaks to several defining features of Australian historiography both in recent years, and in our past scholarly endeavours: settler colonialism and its
Katherine Foxhall. Health, Medicine, and the Sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815–1860
Katherine Foxhall's book about health, medicine, and sea voyages to Australia is elegant and nicely researched. By focusing on voyaging emigrants and convicts—and their transformation into “colonists” at the end of their journeys—this book tackles the rich trove of sources about maritime health, while demonstrating how colonialism and its dynamics can shed light on the worlds of emigrants and their experiences of health and illness. Foxhall there…
Caring for a Man Who Sexually Abused Children
Child sex abuse is a serious health concern, involving considerable pain, suffering, and hurt for victims and their families, as well as generating public interest and scrutiny. Such abuse damages, weakens, but perhaps surprisingly does not necessarily sever all family ties. In this article, people from familial networks within which child sexual abuse has occurred recount their experiences of extending compassion and support to a man who has sex…
In This Issue
In This Issue
Colonial Families and Cultures of Health: Glimpses of Illness and Domestic Medicine in Private Records in New Zealand and Australia, 1850–1910
This article draws on both published and unpublished private family writing to examine how European settler colonial families in southeastern Australia and New Zealand negotiated worlds of sickness and health between 1850 and 1910. It argues that personal writing is a neglected yet rich repository for shedding light on colonial cultures of health across families and households in colonial Australia and New Zealand. In examining challenges to well…
Insanity and ethnicity in New Zealand: Māori encounters with the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1860—1900
This article examines Māori patients at the Auckland Mental Hospital between 1860 and 1900. We argue that the patient case notes reveal ‘European’ categories in which Māori were situated, and demonstrate the extent to which the authorities at the hospital grappled with their appearance, their language and their culture, all of which were elements of their ethnicity. We argue that the use of institutional case records is highly suggestive of some …
Law, history, colonialism: The reach of empire
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection offers exciting new perspectives on the length and breadth of empire. As issues of native title, truth and reconciliation com…
Families, Patients and Emotions: Asylums for the Insane in Colonial Australia and New Zealand, c. 1880-1910
Historians have successfully challenged the social control thesis in relation to nineteenth century insane asylums in many different parts of the world. They have asserted that families were actively involved in committal. Their work has enriched the field, and provided new possibilities for historians researching in asylum archives. Yet despite the very ‘emotional’ content of these archives, historians have not often specifically examined the qu…
States of Mind: Searching for Mental Health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918
In this excellent, important history of colonial mental health, Julie Parle advances several key ideas about the study of colonial psychiatry. First, Western psychiatry's reach was tentative in Natal and Zululand in the period she studies. ‘Colonial psychiatry’, she writes, ‘was of limited significance’ (p. 7). Focused on areas of southern Africa that have so far escaped attention, in part due to the relative lack of extant institutional records,…
Critical Family History and Migration: Introductory Essay
Inspired by the work of Christine Sleeter and Avril Bell, among others, the articles that comprise this Special Issue seek to respond to questions focused on the relationship between family history and the processes of migration and colonisation and how this might impact on a family’s sense of itself today [...]
The Power of Humanity: 100 Years of Australian Red Cross, 1914–2014
These two commissioned histories focus on national centenaries of the Red Cross. The commissions attracted fine authors and historians. In their careers, Oppenheimer and Tennant have written about
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry
Journal Article Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry Get access Catharine Coleborne Catharine Coleborne University of Waikato, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/sochis/hki043 Published: 01 August 2005
Remembering Psychiatry's Past: The Psychiatric Collection and its Display at Porirua Hospital Museum, New Zealand
This article explores the historical meanings of a collection of psychiatric objects on display at the Porirua Hospital Museum, at Porirua, near Wellington, in New Zealand. Founded in 1987 to celebrate the original asylum's centenary, the museum commemorates the history of the institution. Its curators are former psychiatric nursing staff. Visitors to the museum include educators, researchers and members of the psychiatric community. This article…
Co-producing madness: International perspectives on the public histories of mental illness
Public engagement is increasingly seen as an expected part of the armoury of the twenty-first century academic. With increased scrutiny on the humanities, stemming from a neo-liberal critique of their value, it appears to offer a relatively straightforward opportunity to demonstrate the real-world application of research beyond the ivory towers of academia. For historians of madness and mental ill health, the links between their findings and the …
His Brain was Wrong, His Mind Astray: Families and the Language of Insanity in New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, 1880s-1910
Family and friends made descriptions of the behavior of individuals at the time of their committal to institutions for the insane in Australasian colonies, including Gladesville Hospital for the Insane, Sydney, New South Wales; Goodna Hospital for the Insane, near Brisbane in Queensland; and the Auckland Mental Hospital in New Zealand’s North Island, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These lay descriptions of insanity, gleaned…
Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971
(2001). Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 86-96
Gender and Australian history in the 1990s
Tom Griffiths, Hunters and Collectors (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1996. Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1997. Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: A History, Volume One (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1997. Tom Griffiths, Hunters and Collectors (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1996. Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 19…
Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971
(2001). Ten‐pound poms revisited: Battlers’ tales and British migration to Australia, 1947‐1971. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Scatterlings of Empire, pp. 86-96
JAS Review of books
David Hendy, Radio in the Global Age, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp 260, pb $53.90. Rob Johnson, Cash for Comment: The Seduction of Journo Culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp 286, pb $32.95. J Mohan Malik (ed.), Australia's Security in the 21st Century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, 304 pp, $32.95. Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, pp 377, pb $24.95. Eve Langley, The Pea‐Pickers (1942), A&R Classics, Sydney, 2001,…
Law, History and Postcolonial Theory and Method
This Special Issue of Law Text Culture, ‘Making Law Visible: Past and Present Histories and Postcolonial Theory’ originated with a one-day symposium at the University of Waikato titled ‘Law, History and Postcolonial Theory and Method’. The symposium sought to recognise and stimulate multidisciplinary analyses through the lenses of postcolonial theory that made visible the operation of the law at the intersections of ‘race’, class and gender from …
Remembering Psychiatry's Past: The Psychiatric Collection and its Display at Porirua Hospital Museum, New Zealand
This article explores the historical meanings of a collection of psychiatric objects on display at the Porirua Hospital Museum, at Porirua, near Wellington, in New Zealand. Founded in 1987 to celebrate the original asylum's centenary, the museum commemorates the history of the institution. Its curators are former psychiatric nursing staff. Visitors to the museum include educators, researchers and members of the psychiatric community. This article…
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry
Journal Article Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry Get access Catharine Coleborne Catharine Coleborne University of Waikato, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/sochis/hki043 Published: 01 August 2005
Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian England
Hilary Marland, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 320. £52.50 (hbk). ISBN 1–4039–2038–9. In Dangerous Motherhood, Hilary Marland explores ‘puerperal insanity’, the mental disorder associated with pregnancy and childbirth in the Victorian era, through a ‘sad collection’ (p. 140) of asylum and hospital case notes, the medical notes of individual physicians, diaries and letters, and medical writings, mostly though not exclusively drawn from…
Families, Patients and Emotions: Asylums for the Insane in Colonial Australia and New Zealand, c. 1880-1910
Historians have successfully challenged the social control thesis in relation to nineteenth century insane asylums in many different parts of the world. They have asserted that families were actively involved in committal. Their work has enriched the field, and provided new possibilities for historians researching in asylum archives. Yet despite the very ‘emotional’ content of these archives, historians have not often specifically examined the qu…
Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century: Comparisons and Approaches
This volume provides a series of historical overviews of psychiatry and mental health care in the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, Germany (both East and West) and France. It also includes focused thematic studies derived from research in Japan, Italy and Sweden, and a number of the essays offer global overviews, including two concluding reflective chapters which attempt a synthesis of the work as a whole. The specific aims of the collect…
His Brain was Wrong, His Mind Astray: Families and the Language of Insanity in New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, 1880s-1910
Family and friends made descriptions of the behavior of individuals at the time of their committal to institutions for the insane in Australasian colonies, including Gladesville Hospital for the Insane, Sydney, New South Wales; Goodna Hospital for the Insane, near Brisbane in Queensland; and the Auckland Mental Hospital in New Zealand’s North Island, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These lay descriptions of insanity, gleaned…
Robert Winston's Superhuman: Spectacle, Surveillance and Patient Narrative
Health psychologists are being challenged by researchers to consider interdisciplinary approaches to health research, particularly around media representations. This article argues that the praxis and research of health psychology might benefit from strategic and interdisciplinary readings of media texts. It argues that insights from current documentary theory are important because they show us how documentary texts are structured and how medical…
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Journal Article The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry Get access Andrew Scull, The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry, London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 256. £65. ISBN 0415770068. Catharine Coleborne Catharine Coleborne University of Waikato, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume …
States of Mind: Searching for Mental Health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918
In this excellent, important history of colonial mental health, Julie Parle advances several key ideas about the study of colonial psychiatry. First, Western psychiatry's reach was tentative in Natal and Zululand in the period she studies. ‘Colonial psychiatry’, she writes, ‘was of limited significance’ (p. 7). Focused on areas of southern Africa that have so far escaped attention, in part due to the relative lack of extant institutional records,…
Pursuing Families for Maintenance Payments to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1860s–1914
Between the 1860s and 1914, the collection of maintenance payments for the public care of the insane was improved, yet attempts to encourage full payments from families and friends of the insane consistently failed. These efforts to recover maintenance reveal the vulnerabilities of the colonial family in relation to mental illness. This article argues that cooperation and resistance to maintenance payments by families of the institutionalised coe…
Insanity and ethnicity in New Zealand: Māori encounters with the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1860—1900
This article examines Māori patients at the Auckland Mental Hospital between 1860 and 1900. We argue that the patient case notes reveal ‘European’ categories in which Māori were situated, and demonstrate the extent to which the authorities at the hospital grappled with their appearance, their language and their culture, all of which were elements of their ethnicity. We argue that the use of institutional case records is highly suggestive of some …
Regulating 'Mobility' and Masculinity through Institutions in Colonial Victoria, 1870s-1890s
David Rollison shows us that ‘mobility’ and ‘settlement’ operated in a dynamic and dialectical relationship in the past. Mobility, he argues, was a force for social change. Social institutions in early modern England, such as families, the Law, and the Church, were not immobile in the face of new populations. Travellers, sojourners, internal migrants and strangers moved through ‘settled’ spaces and featured in everyday life. ‘Thus movement,’ Roll…
Emotions, Digital Tools and Public Histories: Digital Storytelling using Windows Movie Maker in the History Tertiary Classroom
In the teaching of ‘Digital Histories’ for university students, we focus on a range of digital practices for making history. The teaching themes and content and the assessment tasks build towards knowledge of digital formats for history education based in experiential learning. The assignments include a digital storytelling workshop which results in the submission of a 3‐minute digital story created using Windows Movie Maker. Students respond to …
In This Issue
In This Issue
Colonial Families and Cultures of Health: Glimpses of Illness and Domestic Medicine in Private Records in New Zealand and Australia, 1850–1910
This article draws on both published and unpublished private family writing to examine how European settler colonial families in southeastern Australia and New Zealand negotiated worlds of sickness and health between 1850 and 1910. It argues that personal writing is a neglected yet rich repository for shedding light on colonial cultures of health across families and households in colonial Australia and New Zealand. In examining challenges to well…
White men and weak masculinity: Men in the public asylums in Victoria, Australia, and New Zealand, 1860s–1900s
This article reveals a set of formulations of masculine identity through the fragments of extant casebook evidence from nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions in Victoria, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand. It shows that some patterns in the identification of masculinity and insanity emerge, also highlighting the relevance of individual stories and ‘cases’ to fully understand how masculine identities were fashioned through medical institu…
Museums and Mental Health
For this edition of Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, we have asked a group of museum practitioners to respond to a thought-provoking article about a Taiwanese project that explored the particular needs of visitors diagnosed with schizophrenia. Allegaert, Besley, Coleborne, Chynoweth, Gale, and Sirik have used Chen et al.’s article as a jumping off point from which to write on the broader topic of mental health provision in museums’ engagement…
Challenging White Australia’
The articles published in this issue reflect two dominant currents of Australian historiography in the last few decades: war and immigration restriction.Historians have complicated the history of i
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