Parr Mental Health and Social Space

Towards Inclusionary Geographies?
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9969-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore thevoices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problemsas well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstratesthe ways people with mental health problems are active inre-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of verydifferent community spaces.

* * Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mentalhealth-related research

* Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mentalhealth problems as active social citizens wholly responsible fortheir own recoveries and acceptance

* Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities anddifficulties facing people with mental health problems

* Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest andtechnological communities, disrupting familiar and conventionalaccounts of social inclusion and 'the local'

* Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are activein re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use andunderstanding of different social spaces

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parr, Hester

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures.
Series editors' preface.
Preface and acknowledgements.
1 Geographies of difference: understanding mental (ill) healthand social space.
2 Placing mental health: community, inclusion andcitizenship.
3 Cultural landscapes: rural communities and mental health.
4 Therapeutic natures? urban gardening, citizenship and socialinclusion.
5 Artistic spaces: the arts and mental health.
6 Virtual communities: the Internet and on-line geographies ofself-help.
Conclusion: innovative geographies of mental health.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hester Parr is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Dundee. She has worked on questions of mental health for over ten years, publishing in a range of journals, including Society and Space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, Health and Place and Social and Cultural Geography.