Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice: A Postqualitative Cartography

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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Edge Entanglements delves into the intricate borderlands of community mental health, drawing upon concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, alongside insights from Mad Studies, postcolonial, and feminist scholars. Through their exploration, Barlott and Setchell showcase the remarkable potential of postqualitative inquiry, unveiling the transformative power of freely-formed relationships between psychiatrised individuals and allies within the community.

Thinking with theory, the authors meticulously map the composition and generative processes of these ally relationships, unveiling their capacity to challenge and redefine the boundaries of the mental health sector. By affectionately blending theory and empirical data, they offer a captivating sketch of ally relationships that dance, moving beyond traditional frameworks.

Affectionately creating harmonies between theory and empirical data, the authors sketch ally relationships in ways that move. Allyship, they argue, is enacted through micropolitical processes of becoming-complicit—an ongoing movement towards taking on the struggle of another as your own. Barlott and Setchell's work provides both conceptual and practical insights into postqualitative experimentation, relationship-oriented mental health practice, and citizen activism that unsettles disciplinary boundaries.

Ongoing, disruptive movements on the margins of the mental health sector—such as freely-given relationships—offer opportunities to be otherwise. Edge Entanglements is a vital resource for those whose lives and practices are intricately intertwined with the mental health sector, seeking alternative approaches and ways of doing things differently. This book will be of immense value to novice and established scholars alike, as well as health practitioners seeking innovative and radical methods in their work. Additionally, it will captivate individuals with an interest in citi.

Weight: 367g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032260891