Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Topp, Leslie

Titel

Boundaries

Ist Teil von

• Freedom and the Cage, 2017, p.158

Ort / Verlag

United States: Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Intricate and rhetorically rich spatial operations can be decoded in the asylums’ grounds as well, beyond the walls of individual patient pavilions. These areas, though in the open air, were also structured by separations, or boundaries. “Boundaries” is used here to mean structures (walls, fences, hedges) or less obtrusive entities that delineate spatial separation and also potentially contain people within or channel movement in or out of a defined area. A focus on how boundaries within these common, nonresidential spaces were handled and discussed opens up another aspect of the construction of freedom, by degrees, within confinement. Again there is