TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysing social spaces: relational citizenship for patients leaving mental health care institutions
AU - Pols, J.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - "Citizenship" is a term from political theory. The term has moved from the relationship between the individual and the state toward addressing the position of ‘others’ in society. Here, I am concerned with people with long-term mental health problems. I explore the possibilities of ethnographically studying this rather more cultural understanding of citizenship with the use of the concept of relational citizenship, attending to people who leave Dutch institutions for mental health care. Relational citizenship assumes that people become citizens through interactions, whereby they create particular relations and social spaces. Rather than studying the citizen as a particular individual, citizenship becomes a matter of sociality. In this article, I consider what social spaces these relationships create and what values and mechanisms keep people together. I argue that the notion of neighborhood as a form of community, although built implicitly or explicitly into mental health care policy, is no longer the most plausible model to understand social spaces.
AB - "Citizenship" is a term from political theory. The term has moved from the relationship between the individual and the state toward addressing the position of ‘others’ in society. Here, I am concerned with people with long-term mental health problems. I explore the possibilities of ethnographically studying this rather more cultural understanding of citizenship with the use of the concept of relational citizenship, attending to people who leave Dutch institutions for mental health care. Relational citizenship assumes that people become citizens through interactions, whereby they create particular relations and social spaces. Rather than studying the citizen as a particular individual, citizenship becomes a matter of sociality. In this article, I consider what social spaces these relationships create and what values and mechanisms keep people together. I argue that the notion of neighborhood as a form of community, although built implicitly or explicitly into mental health care policy, is no longer the most plausible model to understand social spaces.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2015.1101101
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2015.1101101
M3 - Article
C2 - 26457766
SN - 0145-9740
VL - 35
SP - 177
EP - 192
JO - Medical Anthropology
JF - Medical Anthropology
IS - 2
ER -