Just as geographies of race, gender, class and sexuality have drawn attention to how complex power relations in society are spatialized, so geographies of illness and impairment offer a deeper understanding of the world. In recent years geographers have increasingly engaged with both the theoretical debates surrounding ill or impaired bodies, and also the lived realities of ill/impaired experience. This text highlights international research (from Britain, USA, Canada, Australia) on bodily impairment, mental health and disabling social worlds. Its fusion of geographical analyses provide a...
Just as geographies of race, gender, class and sexuality have drawn attention to how complex power relations in society are spatialized, so geographie...
Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including: * historical conceptions of the body and behaviour * contemporary political activism * matters of identity and employment * accessible housing * parenthood and child carers * psychiatric medication use * masculinity and sexuality * autobiography * social exclusion and inclusion. The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth...
Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and d...
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces.
Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research
Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly...
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the d...
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces.
Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research
Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly...
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the d...
