Anthropologist of global psychiatry. Lecturer in Society & Mental Health @GHSMatKCL and @kcsamh (dr./she/they)

Joined June 2015
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27 Sep 2023
Delighted to share the new special issue on Global Mental Health I edited! journals.sagepub.com/toc/tps… ...in which I revisit the epistemic politics of the field in light of its changing agenda, methods, people, and the changing contours of the "gap." journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Dörte Bemme retweeted
Our @ESRC Centre's special issue in @sppejournal on ‘Theorizing the social in mental health #research and action’ was launched yesterday, exploring the social perspective on #mentalhealth and why it matters. 👀link.springer.com/journal/12… @KingsCollegeLon @KingsIoPPN @KingsSSPP
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The BMJ Global Health has been attacked for publishing an editorial abt the health consequences of the humanitarian catastrophe in #Gaza. Intimidation has no place in #globalhealth! ➡️Add your signature to the open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… ➡️Below my own letter in support.
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27 Oct 2023
We have great news to share! The new somatosphere website is live! We are launching it today with an exciting set of articles on metabolic thinking. Please check it out:    somatosphere.net/   The previous website is still online and all articles are available as archive.
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Women in Global Mental Health Research An online launch event of the 'Call to Action on Gender Equality' co-developed by 102 women from 26 countries. Oct 5th, 1-2.30pm (UK time) Contact @KellyRoseClarke @DBemme for joining details The Call: doi.org/10.1177/136346152311…
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💡New publication💡: our @Decolmad team just published an editorial calling for a deeper & more committed engagement with historical research in Global Mental Health as a way to re-imagine illness, healing & their relation to culture, justice & well-being sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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It also includes a call to action on gender equity, co-developed by a group 102 women at different stages of their career from 26 countries around the globe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… @transcultpsych
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The Global Mental Health special issue in Transcultural Psychiatry is here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tps… The open-access editorial by our very own @DBemme revisits the epistemic politics of the field, including a critical reflection on the changing contours of the "gap." @kcsamh
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“We propose a historical approach that is attentive to how culture has been operationalized ideologically in the geographies of the global south (…)” New, excellent piece by @cultmindcenter’s @anaantic_hist et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023…

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Central to our #research approach is social #theory based on multiple forms of knowledge. In a new CSMH led article, 39 international collaborators have developed a framework to guide mutuality in global #mentalhealth @DBemme @TessNRoberts @KingsIoPPN @GHSMatKCL @KingsSSPP @ESRC
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Big up Alex Mohan Morzeria-Davis for their spectacular speech at LLC graduation today !! 🔥🔥
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We will be in New Delhi next week for the conference on "Shaping the Global Psyche: Colonialism, Transcultural Psychiatry & Global Mental Health", organised by DECOLMAD & Ashoka University! The conference is open to the public. You can see program here: decolmad.ku.dk/events/shapin…
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It’s out! 📮 "We call for a radical shift towards #funding mechanisms that recognize communities and community-based organisations as active agents of change, and that complement their local experience and knowledge." @LancetGH #globalmentalhealth thelancet.com/journals/langl…
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Finally public! My story of how I was sexually harassed, marginalized, silenced, excluded, and gaslighted at/by the @HarvardSTS Program. Join the #MeTooSTS and #WeDoSTS movement to fight together against abuses of power in STS/academia! 🤬😱😲😭😳🤮🤢✊medium.com/@claudia_gertraud…
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Special Issue 👩‍🎓@DBemme @DPBehague Theorizing the 👥 “social”👥 in mental health research and action WATCH THIS SPACE! 🪂 link.springer.com/collection…
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26 Apr 2022
UCU members have voted to escalate action in their fight for decent pay and working conditions and will take part in marking boycotts across the UK Please stand with them in their fight for the future of the sector Staff and students deserve better #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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