Niching in cities under pressure. Tracing the reconfiguration of community psychiatric care and the housing market in Berlin

Bieler, Patrick; Klausner, Martina

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.018

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“…As I move through the ethnographic material and discussion section of the paper, precarity emerges as a central aspect of embodied belonging in this context. Thus, my ‘bottom up’ approach encompasses the notion of precarity, echoing recent work that has explored precarity, “ethnographically as a situated, processual condition that emerges in urban assemblages” (Bieler and Klausner 2019 :209). Building also on the ethnographic scholarship of anthropologists who have explored ambiguities and paradoxes in the notion of belonging (Stevenson 2014 ; Lien 2015 ), I seek to understand the relationship between states of belonging and precarity, as they emerge in the material context of my field site, one of three psychotherapy centres I carried out ethnographic fieldwork in between 2016 and 2018.…”

Section: Migration: a Clinic In Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care

Brenman

2020

Cult Med Psychiatry

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This paper engages with the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ through an ethnography of the social and material aspects of accessing mental health care in the UK. I focus on moments of access and transition in a voluntary sector organisation in London: an intercultural psychotherapy centre, serving a range of im/migrant communities. Whilst both ‘belonging’ and ‘place’ are often invoked to imply stability, I explore how material contexts of access and inclusion can paradoxically be implicated in the ongoing production of precarity—of unstable, uncertain, and vulnerable ways of being. A sociomaterial analysis of ethnographic material and visual data from two creative mapping interviews attends to material and spatial aspects of the centre and its transitory place in the urban environment. It demonstrates how these aspects of place became entangled in client experiences of access: uncertainties of waiting, ambivalence towards belonging to a particular client group, and questions around deservingness of care. This engendered an embodied and situated experience of ‘precarious belonging’. I therefore argue that precarity should be ‘placed’, both within the concept of embodied belonging, and ethnographically, within the material constraints, impermanence, and spatial politics of projects to include the excluded in UK mental health care.

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Section: Migration: a Clinic In Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care

Brenman

2020

Cult Med Psychiatry

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“…Trying to understand how neighborhoods affect mental health, one of us (Bieler) expanded extensive fieldwork with people with psychiatric diagnoses (including go-along interviews, Bieler and Klausner 2019a) and psychiatric staff by doing participant observation across public administration and a lobbying project of a social welfare organization targeting the inclusion of people with mental distress. Threats of eviction, the resulting homelessness of mental health care clients, and the lack of affordable housing for new clients in inner-city neighborhoods posed major problems for the psychiatric care system that demanded rapid political action (Bieler and Klausner 2019b).…”

Section: Participating In Political Agenda Settingmentioning

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Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography

Bieler

Bister

Hauer

et al. 2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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In ethnographic research and analysis, reflexivity is vital to achieving constant coordination between field and concept work. However, it has been conceptualized predominantly as an ethnographer’s individual mental capacity. In this article, we draw on ten years of experience in conducting research together with partners from social psychiatry and mental health care across different research projects. We unfold three modes of achieving reflexivity co-laboratively: contrasting and discussing disciplinary concepts in interdisciplinary working groups and feedback workshops; joint data interpretation and writing; and participating in political agenda setting. Engaging these modes reveals reflexivity as a distributed process able to strengthen the ethnographer’s interpretative authority, and also able to constantly push the conceptual boundaries of the participating disciplines and professions.

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“…Consider the inventive ways developed recently to deal with catastrophes (Kirksey et al. ), with practices of containment and policing (Harrison ; Martin ), with mentally stressful and unhealthy urban environments (Bieler and Klausner ; Fitzgerald et al. ), with climate change and its effects (Hastrup and Olwig 2013), or with life in the midst of waste, toxicants, and environmental pollutants (Callén and Criado ; Fukuda ; Ottinger and Sarantschin ; Tironi and Rodríguez‐Giralt ; Ureta ), to name just a few.…”

Section: Troubling Carementioning

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Care in Trouble: Ecologies of Support from Below and Beyond

Duclos

Criado

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue that the analytics of care may benefit from being troubled, as it too often reduces the reproduction of life to matters of palliation and repair, fueling a politics of nationalism and identitarianism. Picking up the threads of insight from STS, “new materialisms,” and postcolonial feminist and indigenous scholarship, we discuss care from “below” and “beyond,” thus exposing tensions between the enveloping and the diverging, the enduring and the engendering, that play out in care practices. We propose “ecologies of support” as an analytic that attends to how humans are grounded in, traversed by, and undermined by more‐than‐human and often opaque, speculative, subterranean elements. Our proposal is for anthropology to not simply map life‐sustaining ecologies, but to experimentally engage with troubling modes of inquiry and intervention.

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Niching in cities under pressure. Tracing the reconfiguration of community psychiatric care and the housing market in Berlin

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care

Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care

Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography

Care in Trouble: Ecologies of Support from Below and Beyond

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