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This book examines the community "mental health" sector by analysing concepts offered by Mad Studies and postcolonial, and feminist scholars. The authors demonstrate what postqualitative inquiry can do, surfacing the transformative potential of freely-given relationships between psychiatrised people and allies in the community.
List of contents
Introduction to the Series
By Simone Fullagar
1. The Edge of Things
2. Destabilising Major Mental Health Approaches
3. Becoming-Minor, Mapping Territories
4. Assembling
5. Doing a Cartography
6. An Entry Point
7. Cartography of Territories
8. Cartography of Becoming
9. Cartography of Desire
10. (Dis)Organising Allyship, Becoming-Complicit
Knots-Sorcery-Belonging, An Afterword
By Lynda Shevellar, Tim Barlott, and Jenny Setchell
About the author
Tim Barlott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Adjunct Fellow and Co-Director of SocioHealthLab at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is interested in participatory, community-based, and applied postqualitative approaches to health research, particularly with psychiatrised people.
Jenny Setchell is Senior Research Fellow in physiotherapy at The University of Queensland, Australia and founder of SocioHealthLab, an interdisciplinary collective pursing social transformation in healthcare through sociocultural research. Jenny enjoys using postqualitative and creative research approaches and has also been an acrobat and a human rights worker.
Summary
This book examines the community "mental health" sector by analysing concepts offered by Mad Studies and postcolonial, and feminist scholars. The authors demonstrate what postqualitative inquiry can do, surfacing the transformative potential of freely-given relationships between psychiatrised people and allies in the community.
