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Dear colleagues,
the call for papers below may be of interest to members of the medsocnews list. Apologies for cross-posting.
Global mental health and therapeutic assemblages: concepts, controversy and necessary tensions
A two-day interdisciplinary conference, February 12-13th 2018
University of Sheffield UK
Call for abstracts and participation
Global mental health as a field of study and practice involves a wide heterogeneous assemblage of actors and is a controversial field that despite huge achievements has also attracted much critique. While for some the very concept of global mental health is an oxymoron and a form of medical imperialism (Summerfield, 2013), for others it has proved a practical way of leveraging political attention on a much-neglected area. This makes for a sometimes hostile and polemic intellectual climate that risks reaching an impasse (Cooper, 2016). This conference aims to draw out the necessary tensions of this field through critical interdisciplinary discussion and debate. It aims to create space to explore how activists, mental health users and survivors, and academics from various fields (such as, Mad Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Disability Studies, Human Geography, History, Literary studies, Education, and Science and Technology Studies, and many more) can enrich and / or trouble debates around global mental health.
The conference is open to all working in and around global mental health and wider therapeutic assemblages, and especially welcomes postgraduate and early career researchers, those who have lived experience of a psychiatric diagnosis, or of distress, and those who live and/or work in the global South on mental health issues. It aims to explore and showcase the multiple contemporary (converging and diverging) directions of, and innovations in, global mental health research and practice.
For further information on conference content, funding opportunities, and submission of abstracts (deadline 11th December), see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-mental-health-and-therapeutic-assemblages-concepts-controversy-and-necessary-tensions-tickets-39612412793?aff=es2 <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-mental-health-and-therapeutic-assemblages-concepts-controversy-and-necessary-tensions-tickets-39612412793?aff=es2>
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Dr. Eva Hilberg
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
School of Education / Sheffield Institute for International Development
The University of Sheffield
241 Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2GW
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http://siid.group.shef.ac.uk/team/dr-eva-hilberg/ <http://siid.group.shef.ac.uk/team/dr-eva-hilberg/>
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