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The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India

Overview of attention for article published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, May 2012
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Title
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India
Published in
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, May 2012
DOI 10.1007/s11013-012-9266-y
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Jocelyn Marrow, Tanya Marie Luhrmann

Abstract

This essay examines the spaces across societies in which persons with severe mental illness lose meaningful social roles and are reduced to "bare life." Comparing ethnographic and interview data from the United States and India, we suggest that these processes of exclusion take place differently: on the street in the United States, and in the family household in India. We argue that cultural, historical, and economic factors determine which spaces become zones of social abandonment across societies. We compare strategies for managing and treating persons with psychosis across the United States and India, and demonstrate that the relative efficiency of state surveillance of populations and availability of public social and psychiatric services, the relative importance of family honor, the extent to which a culture of psychopharmaceutical use has penetrated social life, and other historical features, contribute to circumstances in which disordered Indian persons are more likely to be forcefully "hidden" in domestic space, whereas mentally ill persons in the United States are more likely to be expelled to the street. However, in all locations, social marginalization takes place by stripping away the subject's efficacy in social communication. That is, the socially "dead" lose communicative efficacy, a predicament, following Agamben, we describe as "bare voice."

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 110 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 14%
Student > Bachelor 12 11%
Researcher 11 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 9%
Other 20 18%
Unknown 24 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 31 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 14%
Psychology 15 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 11%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 26 23%
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#2
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