ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Psychiatric partitions: the politics of mental illness in states of collapse
Psychiatric Partitions will transform our understanding of the relationship between politics and psychiatry in the twentieth century. Through its distinctive focus on the global phenomenon of partition – the practice of dividing and redistributing territory, population, and sovereignty – since the First World War, it will contribute the first systematic account of how questions around mental health and psychiatry mattered in these times of acute political and social crisis spanning decades and continents. Often described as ‘traumatic’, the psychiatric history of these cataclysms is more complex than trauma alone, encompassing tussles between departing and emergent states about…
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