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Book SynopsisEdge Entanglements traverses the borderlands of the community mental health sector by plugging in to concepts offered by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari along with work from Mad Studies, postcolonial, and feminist scholars. Barlott and Setchell demonstrate what postqualitative inquiry can do, surfacing the transformative potential of freely-given relationships between psychiatrised people and allies in the community.
Thinking with theory, the authors map the composition and generative processes of freely-given, ally relationships. Edge Entanglements surfaces how such relationships can unsettle constraints of the mental health sector and produce creative possibilities for psychiatrised people. Affectionately creating harmonies between theory and empirical data, the authors sketch ally relationships in ways that move. Allyship is enacted through micropolitical processes of becoming-complicit: ongoing movement towards taking on the struggle of another as your o
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"The authors successfully take an obtuse line of theoretical inquiry from Deleuze and Guattari, and artfully make it accessible and engaging. They carefully avoid rehashing the now clichéd elements of this theory, in favour of more direct and grounded explanation. Specifically, the authors takes readers deep into relationships with eight participants - produced through a time-consuming process of relationship-building developed over several encounters – to clearly demonstrate the re-imaginative benefits of their theory-data entanglement."
Rebecca Olson, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia
"In this powerful book, Barlott and Setchell demand we radically rethink the nature of friendship and (health)care. To reframe friendship through posthuman philosophy is to explore how our very being is made and remade in tiny moments of everyday life. Barlott and Setchell trace the genesis and unfolding of four such friendships, how they support, challenge, and resist dominant frameworks of mental health service. Health researchers, whether we like it or not, are part of this process. If we wish to affirm life in freely-given relationships, this book is the place to start."
Thomas Abrams, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Canada
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Series
By Simone Fullagar
1. The Edge of Things
2. Destabilising Major Mental Health Approaches
3. Becoming-Minor, Mapping Territories
4. Assembling
5. Doing a Cartography
6. An Entry Point
7. Cartography of Territories
8. Cartography of Becoming
9. Cartography of Desire
10. (Dis)Organising Allyship, Becoming-Complicit
Knots–Sorcery–Belonging, An Afterword
By Lynda Shevellar, Tim Barlott, and Jenny Setchell
