We are seeking a Postgraduate Research Assistant to contribute to the project by researching the transformation of psychiatric deinstitutionalization policies and their role in shaping contemporary global mental health governance.
Work Packages
Transitions is comprised of the following work packages.
01
Links, debates, and innovations in South America
Will explore the exchanges between local and international reformers and leaders, the initial re-elaboration of PDI and the influence of social and political processes in shaping reform trajectories.
02
From local movement to global policy
Will explore how a process intimately tied with historical and political circumstances in Western Europe and the USA became a defining element of a "modern" MH system worldwide.
03
Contemporary tensions
Will explore the contemporary ethical and political tensions and the continuities and discontinuities in the struggle for and against PDI in the region.