We have agreed to provide within the journal a list of completed theses in the field of Disability Studies. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as to provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation for theses completed from 2018 which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
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Name of the author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year
A 100-word synopsis of the thesis
Email address
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Name of the author: Sudarshan R. Kottai
Thesis title: Interrogating ‘Care’, ‘Chronicity’ and the Expansion of Patienthood: An Ethnographic Study of Community Mental Health in Contemporary India
University awarding degree: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2020
This thesis examined community mental health practices in contemporary India at a time when global hegemony of biopsychiatry in mental health care is being questioned by scholars both within and outside psychiatry, including users and survivors of psychiatry. The research explores the everyday of these community mental health programmes, foregrounding stories of users to map their political, social, personal and ecological axes of suffering. It engages with the processes of ‘care’ affected by the interaction between the global, national and local mental health policies and practices. As psychiatry comes to play a powerful role in health policies and the larger society in India and the world, the thesis goes back to the fundamental canonical question what is ‘mental illness’ and what is mental health ‘care’.
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