Mr Jonathan Saha
BA History and Politics (University of Sheffield), MA African/Asian History (SOAS)
Overview
- Name:
- Mr Jonathan Saha
- Email address:
- 170972@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Madness and Colonialism in British Burma
- Year of Study:
- 1
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
My research explores the history of madness in colonial Burma. It is particularly focused on the detection, diagnosis and detention of the mad and what these processes reveal about the colonial order in British Burma. It examines the spatial organisation of colonial rule and how the detection of the insane was imbedded in its maintance. It looks at the medical observation of the suspected insane examining how discourses of rationality, criminality, race and gender were negotiated in the diagnosis of insanity. It also analyses the colonial institutions for the reception of the insane.
PhD Conferences
'Finding and Confining the Mad in Colonial Burma, c.1860-1890' a paper presented at Colonial Networks: Violence and the Colonial Condition Workshop, Robinson College, Cambridge, May 2008
