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Life amidst Rubble: Migrant Mental Health and the Management of Subjectivity in Urban China

Lisa Richaud, Ash Amin
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816305
Published: 01 January 2020
...Lisa Richaud; Ash Amin While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived...
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Looking for Humanitarian Purpose: Endurance and the Value of Lives in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

Ilana Feldman
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896171
Published: 01 September 2015
... in humanitarian practice. Drawing from ethnographic research with a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders mental health project in the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut, it argues that in conditions of chronic need, and in circumstances where it is nearly...
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Changing the Subject? Psychological Counseling in Eastern Africa

Megan Vaughan
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 499–517.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511514
Published: 01 September 2016
... . Atwoli Lukoye . 2009 . “ Mental Health Needs a Vote in Ministry’s Budget .” Kenyan Psychologist (blog), June 28 . kenyanpsychiatrist.blogspot.co.uk/2009_06_01_archive.html . Bandawe Chiwoza R. 2005 . “ Psychology Brewed in an African Pot: Indigenous Philosophies and the Quest...
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Panoptical Intimacies

Lorna A. Rhodes
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 285–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-285
Published: 01 May 1998
... to discipline them for a return to less restrictive conditions. It is, said one officer, “designed to house people who are a problem anywhere else.”11 Workers in the IMU readily concede that “the unit has an effect on a person’s mental health...
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Woke to Weary

Gloria Diaz, Gabrielle Cabrera, Carla Moore, Laura Yakas
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286873
Published: 01 May 2019
....” A switch had flipped, and there could be no more denying that for all its intentions and success stories, the mental health system rests on oppressive foundations and routinely causes harm; there is a lot more to its truths and treatments than the dogma allows widespread awareness of. With a jolt, I...
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Troy Duster

Alondra Nelson
Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 283–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1535507
Published: 01 May 2012
.... If you want someone who’s black by your own accounts, it couldn’t be me. 295 Public Culture AN: After several years at Berkeley you were invited to join President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health...
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Caught on Camera

Kevin Lewis O’Neill
Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 493–514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3869572
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and the relaxation of government regulation, economic restructuring in postwar Guatemala has included the systematic disinvestment in public health. Less than 2 percent of Guatemala’s total health budget addresses issues of mental health, with its hospitals flatly denying medical service to those patients seeking...
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World Fitness: US Army Family Humanism and the Positive Science of Persistent War

Beatrice Jauregui
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 449–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896183
Published: 01 September 2015
... the ways that military institutions and leaders conceptualize and address these issues by doing things like exempting personnel from notifying the army of postcombat service-related mental health history on security clearance and other application forms ( Casey 2012 ). See also American Communion 2015...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 607–612.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-3-607
Published: 01 September 1994
... and Esther D. Rothblum, eds. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives. (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1992). Comaroff, Jean and John Comaroff, eds. Modernity and Malcontents: Ritual...
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Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject

Veena Das, Renu Addlakha
Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 511–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-511
Published: 01 September 2001
... Ramphele. Berkeley: University of California Press. Desjarlais, Robert, Leon Eisenberg, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman. 1995 . World mental health: Problems and priorities in low-income countries . New York: Oxford University Press. Deutsch, Helen, and Felicity Nussbaum. 2000 . Introduction...
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Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China

Matthew Kohrman
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 161–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917164
Published: 01 May 2021
...-hand Smoke?”). Science Daily , June 4 . www.gov.cn/fwxx/kp/2007-06/04/content_634930.htm . Zhang Xin , Zhang Xiaobo , and Chen Xi . 2017 . “ Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being? ” Journal of Environmental Economics...
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Abnormal, the “New Normal,” and Destabilizing Discourses of Rights

Susan Ruddick
Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 53–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-53
Published: 01 January 2006
... with one for a while you realize that this child is not the same breed as the others. . . . Many parents are adopting zebras, both domestically and internationally, and believing that they are getting horses. And many mental health profes- sionals have little to no experience in recognizing...
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Ian Hacking

Andrew Lakoff
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 217–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443610
Published: 01 January 2012
... of Mental Health] pie is going to autism. Likewise, vastly more of the charity pie is going to autism, partly because of the extreme efficacy of the organizations. Most of the organizations are fueled by people whose family members are autistic. And I have the genetic view that the family members who...
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Penetrating Markets, Fortifying Fences: Advertising, Consumption, and Violent National Conflict

Paul Frosh
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 461–482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-005
Published: 01 September 2007
... for the democratic process? In Media, Ritual, and Identity , edited by T. Liebes and J. Curran. London: Routledge. Liebes, T., and Z. Kampf. 2005 . Viewing terrorism from a distance: Television representation and the national mood. In Mental health in the shadow of terror: The Israeli experience , edited...
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Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger

Adeline Masquelier
Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 267–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-267
Published: 01 May 2001
... Institute of Mental Health, a dis- sertation grant from the National Science Foundation, and a grant for anthropological research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Further research during the summer of 1994 was made possible by a Summer Fellowship from Tulane...
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Margaret Lock: Interviewed by Eugene Raikhel

Margaret Lock, Eugene Raikhel
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 311–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749081
Published: 01 May 2017
... it must be appreciated that we are born into and remain situated in changing environments over our life course that contribute to health and well-being and, equally, to ill health and mental problems of many kinds. ER: I was just going to ask you about epigenetics. You’ve just written a book about...
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Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism

Joe Bandy
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-539
Published: 01 September 1996
... empowerment, and environ- Public Culture mental health. Jon Kusler defines ecotourism as “tourism based principally upon natural and archaeological resources . . . [and] it differs from mass tourism based upon man-created [sic...
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American Elegy, Reflux: American Aspiration

Kathryn A. Mariner
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262821
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck beyond the moment that he stopped breathing. In September, body cam footage was released showing the police murder of Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York. In the midst of a mental health crisis, Prude, Black and unarmed, like Floyd, was suffocated after officers...
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The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing

Angela Xiao Wu
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435427
Published: 01 January 2022
... . London : Bloomsbury . Reddy William M. 1997 . “ Against Constructionism: The Historical Ethnography of Emotions .” Current Anthropology 38 , no. 3 : 327 – 51 . Richaud Lisa , and Amin Ash . 2020 . “ Life amidst Rubble: Migrant Mental Health and the Management...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 587–597.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-587
Published: 01 September 1996
..., and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refigees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Manoleas, Peter, ed. The Cross-Cultural Case Management in Mental Health. New York: Haworth Press, 1996. Manroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York...
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