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A recording of this talk by Prof Crispin Bates on Indian Labour History, organised by IIT Ahmedabad, is now available for those interested at

RETHINKING INDIAN LABOUR HISTORY | Prof. Crispin Bates | April 28, 2021 Title of the talk:RETHINKING INDIAN LABOUR HISTORY: North Indian Overseas Labour Migration in the Colonial EraBio of the speaker:Crispin Bates is the Profess...

You are warmly invited to a seminar in the Spring 2020 Semester by the Centre for South Asian Studies at Edinburgh University.


Shifting the place, relations and process of care: three cases of social innovation in community mental health

Speakers: Sumeet Jain (UoE) and Winston Kwon (UoE)

Date: Thursday 30th January 2020

Venue: Practice Suite, Room 1.12, First Floor, CMB

Time: 1600 -1730

Abstract
In recent years, a number of Indian NGOs have developed highly innovative approaches to addressing gaps in the provision of community mental health care. An ethnographic study of three such organizations: Project Burans (Dehradun), Iswar Sankalpa (Kolkata) and Mental Health Action Trust (Calicut) reveals how innovation emerges from a contextually adapted network of practices within each organisation. While these networks of practises are unique for each organisation, they also have in common an approach to mental health care that is focused on recovery and well-being. From these findings, we developed a conceptual framework for a psychosocial approach to mental health through shifts in the: a) place of care (care is delivered in a multiplicity of spaces), b) relations of care (hierarchies and boundaries between groups are reduced), and c) process of care (practices of care are adapted and evolved).

Further details here: http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/events/seminar_series/2019_2020/shifting_the_place,_relations_and_process_of_care_three_cases_of_social_innovation_in_community_mental_health

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Centre for South Asian Studies: Events : Shifting the place, relations and process of care: three cases of social innovation in community mental health Shifting the place, relations and process of care: three cases of social innovation in community mental health Title Shifting the place, relations and process of care: three cases of social innovation in community mental health Speaker(s) Speaker: Sumeet Jain # UoE; Speaker: Winston Kwon # UoE Hoste...