{"product_id":"cultural-anxieties-9780813595382","title":"Cultural Anxieties","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stéphanie Larchanché’s \u003ci\u003eCultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Cultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence.\" * EuropeNow *\u003cbr\u003e“Stéphanie Larchanché’s \u003ci\u003eCultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Cultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCultural Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence.\" * EuropeNow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Lenore Manderson\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \/ Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Cultural Anxieties\u003cbr\u003e A Day at Centre Minkowska\u003cbr\u003e Part I   The Context   \u003cbr\u003e 1          A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering”                          \u003cbr\u003e 2          Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska              \u003cbr\u003e Part II  Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds\u003cbr\u003e 3          Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care                              \u003cbr\u003e 4          Managing “Migrant Youth”\u003cbr\u003e Part III  Ethical Deliberations\u003cbr\u003e 5          Enacting Cultural Competence\u003cbr\u003e 6          Psychotherapy at the Borderland\u003cbr\u003e 7          Beyond Anxieties: Praxis      \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405800087895,"sku":"9780813595382","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813595382.jpg?v=1730493663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-anxieties-9780813595382","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}