Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach

Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach

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This thesis examines how cultural competency operates as a regime of governmentality. Inspired by Foucauldian genealogy, institutional ethnography, and Said’s concept of contrapuntality, this thesis problematizes the seamless production of racialized bodies in relation to mental disorder. I begin by...

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Main Author: Tam, Louise
Other Authors: Razack, Sherene
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
Subjects:
construction of mental disorder
racial governmentality
immigrant women
minority youth
cultural competency
cross-cultural mental health
Brief Symptom Inventory
Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale
community needs assessment
Postcolonial Studies
institutional ethnography
Disability Studies
race
deviance
depression
self-esteem
madness
oppression as disease
anti-racism
health equity
antipsychiatry
feminist
Foucauldian genealogy
contrapuntal reading
psychiatric survivors
multicultural practice
technologies of the self
social organization of mental health
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33677

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