Kira A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6693493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kira A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kira A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4942-8940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using fiction to tell mad stories
In this article, the author explores larger themes of empathy, imagination, and the historian’s craft through her process of writing a novella entitled The Red Chair. This historical fiction is about the psychiatric patients at the Brockville Asylum (Brockville, Ontario, Canada), and explores the daily lives of many inmates. It emerges from her Master’s Research Project, where the author sought to center emotions as a means of knowing. Reflecting…
Ritualizing Madness
In this article, I argue that case files kept by doctors, nurses, and attendants in Canadian Asylums, act as sites of performative madness enforced by the observer. In applying Foucauldian and performance theories, I look at the production of knowledge, and influence of power, which allow for the encoding of madness as a ritualized behaviour that is repeatable outside of the individual being recorded as mad. To illustrate this point, I use severa…
Using fiction to tell mad stories
In this article, the author explores larger themes of empathy, imagination, and the historian’s craft through her process of writing a novella entitled The Red Chair. This historical fiction is about the psychiatric patients at the Brockville Asylum (Brockville, Ontario, Canada), and explores the daily lives of many inmates. It emerges from her Master’s Research Project, where the author sought to center emotions as a means of knowing. Reflecting…
Ritualizing Madness
In this article, I argue that case files kept by doctors, nurses, and attendants in Canadian Asylums, act as sites of performative madness enforced by the observer. In applying Foucauldian and performance theories, I look at the production of knowledge, and influence of power, which allow for the encoding of madness as a ritualized behaviour that is repeatable outside of the individual being recorded as mad. To illustrate this point, I use severa…
Using fiction to tell mad stories
In this article, the author explores larger themes of empathy, imagination, and the historian’s craft through her process of writing a novella entitled The Red Chair. This historical fiction is about the psychiatric patients at the Brockville Asylum (Brockville, Ontario, Canada), and explores the daily lives of many inmates. It emerges from her Master’s Research Project, where the author sought to center emotions as a means of knowing. Reflecting…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Biographical and Historical Analysis (1 work) · Categorization (1 work) · Craft (1 work) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (1 work) · Empathy (1 work)