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The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India

Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2012-09, Vol.36 (3), p.493-513 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 ;ISSN: 0165-005X ;EISSN: 1573-076X ;DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9266-y ;PMID: 22547245 ;CODEN: CMPSD2

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Title:
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India
Author: Marrow, Jocelyn ; Luhrmann, Tanya Marie
Subjects: Anthropology ; Archives & records ; Biopolitics ; Citizenship ; Clinical Psychology ; Communication ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Cultural anthropology ; Cultural factors ; Cultural practices ; Culture ; Economic factors ; Efficiency ; Ethnographic research ; Ethnography ; Families & family life ; Family ; Family relations ; Family Relations - ethnology ; Geography ; Homeless people ; Homeless Persons ; Homelessness ; Humans ; India ; Marginality ; Medical anthropology ; Medical treatment ; Medicine ; Mental disorders ; Mental Disorders - ethnology ; Mental Illness ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Original Paper ; Psychiatry ; Psychosis ; Public Health ; Public services ; Relatives ; Schizophrenia ; Social Alienation ; Social exclusion ; Social Marginalization ; Social relations ; Social Sciences ; Social Services ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Sociology ; Sovereignty ; Space ; Surveillance ; U.S.A ; United States ; United States of America
Is Part Of: Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2012-09, Vol.36 (3), p.493-513
Description: This essay examines the spaces across societies in which persons with severe mental illness lose meaningful social roles and are reduced to “bare life.” Comparing ethnographic and interview data from the United States and India, we suggest that these processes of exclusion take place differently: on the street in the United States, and in the family household in India. We argue that cultural, historical, and economic factors determine which spaces become zones of social abandonment across societies. We compare strategies for managing and treating persons with psychosis across the United States and India, and demonstrate that the relative efficiency of state surveillance of populations and availability of public social and psychiatric services, the relative importance of family honor, the extent to which a culture of psychopharmaceutical use has penetrated social life, and other historical features, contribute to circumstances in which disordered Indian persons are more likely to be forcefully “hidden” in domestic space, whereas mentally ill persons in the United States are more likely to be expelled to the street. However, in all locations, social marginalization takes place by stripping away the subject’s efficacy in social communication. That is, the socially “dead” lose communicative efficacy, a predicament, following Agamben, we describe as “bare voice.”
Publisher: Boston: Springer US
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0165-005X
EISSN: 1573-076X
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9266-y
PMID: 22547245
CODEN: CMPSD2
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 ;ISSN: 0165-005X ;EISSN: 1573-076X ;DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9266-y ;PMID: 22547245 ;CODEN: CMPSD2

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