Heterotopographies of a Restless Heritage: The West and the Rest of Pretoria, South Africa

The heterotopia of Westfort Leprosy Hospital and Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital was inspired by a reform vision combining compulsory segregation of leprosy patients and institutional confinement of psychiatric patients, with moral–therapeutic landscaping. These regimes in turn were linked to precepts of racial segregation and control of mobility, and to standards of normativity – and their failures – in the social arena.