The Social Organization of the Right to Mental Health and Development: An Institutional Ethnography

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dc.contributor.advisorRankin, Janet
dc.contributor.advisorMcCoy, Liza
dc.contributor.authorJakubec, Sonya
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-03T18:14:56Z
dc.date.available2015-11-20T08:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-03
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractIndicators of the “right to mental health and development” and the scale up of treatment and services have been at the forefront in the field that is known discursively as “global mental health.” Those advocating for the rights of mentally ill people within this field struggle to produce indicators that can both account for their experiences in practice, while demonstrating accountability within the rules of global development. An international mental health advocacy organization was the site of institutional ethnographic exploration for this inquiry into an international research project and what it contributed as authoritative knowledge about mental health rights. Rather than relying on abstract notions of mental health rights and development, this study illuminates how researchers and funders came together to solve the everyday problems they encountered in advocacy and research for mental health, social inclusion, and the livelihoods of mentally ill people and their care-givers. Exploring the work of practitioners in the field, bureaucrats in aid agencies, and officials in bilateral and multilateral “development” organizations provides a place to begin to explicate how global health governance frameworks are reshaping the field of mental health and development. Specifically, the study explicates (a) a participatory research model and evolving research arrangements between nongovernmental agencies and official organizations, (b) the turn toward indicators for knowing mental health needs and rights, (c) the work of managing research for development results, and (d) measuring and accounting for “mental health rights” in economic measures. At this early stage of global mental health practice, it seems especially important to pay critical attention to how rights-based approaches are coordinated. Many of the concepts of “rights” are taken for granted as beneficial for those experiencing mental illness or distress. It is within their taken-for-granted iteration that they become ideological and cease to represent the interests of frontline mental health knowledge and, instead, carry the interests of the “institution”—in this case the interests of global economic advancement. Uncovering the social organization of knowledge making through institutional ethnographic approaches is a timely critique that points the direction to alternative knowledge and forms of knowledge for mental health and development.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJakubec, S. (2015). The Social Organization of the Right to Mental Health and Development: An Institutional Ethnography (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28381en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28381
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2429
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultyNursing
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectSocial Structure and Development
dc.subjectMental Health
dc.subjectNursing
dc.subject.classificationMental Healthen_US
dc.subject.classificationHuman Rights Discourseen_US
dc.subject.classificationGlobal Health Governanceen_US
dc.subject.classificationInstitutional Ethnographyen_US
dc.titleThe Social Organization of the Right to Mental Health and Development: An Institutional Ethnography
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineNursing
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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