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Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?
Hester Parr
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Description for Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?
Hardback. 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. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 228 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
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.
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 responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance
- Brings to the fore the voices ... Read more
- Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local'
- Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405168939
SKU
V9781405168939
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Ref
99-50
About Hester Parr
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.
Reviews for Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?
"Hester Parr's book delivers a welcome and unusually close-up engagement with the practiced geographies of mental health." (Area, December 2010) "This inspiring book offers a highly original account of the social spaces created and inhabited by people with mental health problems. Hester Parr paints a vivid picture, which foregrounds hopeful possibilities for empowerment and integration. ... Read more