Recycling former psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand: echoes of deinstitutionalisation and restructuring

This paper addresses a gap in the understanding of the geography of deinstitutionalisation: the fate of closed asylums. We contend that the closure process was an exercise in both deinstitutionalisation and welfare state restructuring, and examine discourses surrounding the re-use of two former psyc...

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Main Authors: Joseph, Alun E. (Author), Kearns, Robin A. (Author), Moon, Graham (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009-03.
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