Barua, Maan and Jadhav, Sushrut and Kumar, Gunjesh and Gupta, Urvi and Justa, Priyanka and Sinha, Anindya (2021) Mental health ecologies and urban wellbeing. Health & Place, 69. ISSN 1353-8292
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| Abstract: | How might urban mental health be understood when animals reconfigure human wellbeing in the lived city? Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork on people and macaques in New Delhi and forging novel conversations between urban studies, ecology and psychiatry, our ontology of urban mental health moves from lived experience of the built environment to those configured by dwelling with various interlocutors: animals, astral bodies and supernatural currents. These relations create microspaces of wellbeing, keeping forces of urban precarity at bay. This paper discusses mental health ecologies in different registers: subjectivity being environmental, its scale being relational rather than binary, enmeshed in the dynamics of other-than-human life, and involving conversations between medical and vernacular practices rather than hierarchies of knowledge. |
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| Item Type: | Journal Paper |
| Subjects: | School of Natural and Engineering Sciences > Ecology School of Natural and Engineering Sciences > Animal Studies |
| Divisions: | Schools > Natural Sciences and Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2026 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2026 11:37 |
| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102577. |
| URI: | http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/3207 |
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