Dear all,
We are still accepting abstracts for the ASA 2016 panel, "Anthropology of mental health: at the intersections of transience, 'chronicity' and recovery".
*University of Durham, 4-7 July 2016
*Convenors: Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham) and Karin Eli (University of Oxford)
The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 February 2016.
To propose a paper, please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4437
Best,
Karin Eli
Junior Research Fellow, St Hilda's College
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Oxford
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"Anthropology of mental health: at the intersections of transience, 'chronicity' and recovery"
This panel turns its attention to the anthropology of mental illness and distress. It interrogates boundaries between concepts of transience, so-called 'chronicity' and recovery as they come into focus through ethnographic analyses of lived experience in the clinic and beyond.
Responding to recent changes in psychiatric diagnoses and treatments and the growing instability of global political and economic systems, this panel calls for urgent anthropological engagement with mental illness and distress. Mental ill-health accounts for a significant proportion of the world's health burden and causes disruption to individuals and communities. Often those afflicted are already disadvantaged and marginalised, such that structural violence and mental ill-health are entangled. By retracing the footsteps of established anthropological research into psychiatry and illness experiences, alongside a commitment to critical complexity and uncertainty, the panel will forge new pathways into understanding suffering and caregiving. Concepts of care and recovery in both the clinic and community are contingent on notions of the temporal nature of mental illness. At its core, the panel will therefore be concerned with actual and imagined temporalities of suffering; by bridging anthropologies of medicine and time, it will problematise the taken for granted time-lines and emplotments pervasive in clinical discourses. It will interrogate boundaries between concepts of transience, so-called 'chronicity' and recovery as they come into focus through ethnographic analyses of lived experience in the clinic and beyond. In furthering anthropological knowledge, these explorations will contribute to broader debates, drawing anthropology into dialogue with clinical and policy frameworks and service user advocacy. In so doing, the panel seeks to envisage hopeful futures for the discipline and those it encounters.
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