Exploring the debates, innovations and visions for transformation developed in Brazil and Chile in response to movements for reform in the USA and Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century.
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.