China Mills
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3696793 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | China Mills |
| NOMBRES | China |
| APELLIDO | Mills |
| FIRMA | MILLS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0615-234X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Work-related suicide
Weaponising time in the war on welfare
In 2014, a long continuing battle began to find out more about Government record-keeping on the deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. Drawing on a timeline of evidence co-produced with disabled people, we analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Wor…
Madness' after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - challenging dominant understandings of distress
This article reports on the findings from a small-scale co-produced qualitative study on experiences of distress caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Inspired by the emerging interdisciplinary field of Mad Studies, the study is novel and unique in two ways. First, it prioritises social understanding and interpretation of madness and distress. Second, an emphasis is placed on experiential knowledge. Beyond interviews with 20 people w…
Critical reflections on the concept and impact of 'scaling up' in Global Mental Health
The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) aims to address the global burden of mental illness by focusing on closing the 'treatment gap' faced by many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To increase access to services, GMH prioritizes 'scaling up' mental health services, primarily advocating for the export of Western centred and developed biomedical and psychosocial 'evidence-based' approaches to the Global South. While this emphasis on scala…
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health
Based on interviews with members of the Guideline Development Group (GDG) of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Guidelines for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders, this article adds empirical depth to understanding the contingent and strategic nature of universality in relation to mental health. Differently from debating whether or not mental health is global, the article outlines the peo…
Work and the Carceral State By Jon Burnett
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Mad by the Millions
Those of us who work within or on the margins of Global Mental Health often grapple with the question of what is Global Mental Health, and when did it begin? Histories of Global Mental Health have been narrated in different ways and from different starting points, with some telling a linear chronological history starting anywhere from ancient history (Cohen et al., 2013) to the 1990 Caracas Declaration of Mental Health and Human Rights (Patel et …
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism
The Prevent Strategy tasks the British education sector with preventing radicalisation and extremism. It defines extremism as opposition to fundamental British Values and requires schools to promote these values and refer students and staff believed to be vulnerable to radicalisation. Little research examining the enactment of the Prevent and British Values curriculum has included students. To fill this gap, we investigated how students, teachers…
Enacting Treaty Rights through Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation
Despite great loss in gathering and consumption of traditional foods among Indigenous communities, there is great hope for reclaiming and preserving knowledge. The Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Gathering (RSAFG) is a community group leading grassroots efforts on the Wind River reservation to reclaim Shoshone ancestral foods and promote food sovereignty. The story of the RSAFG promotes equitable, decolonized, and community empowered methods of…
Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex
Minds, behaviours and psyches are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, welfare, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is new, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This special section considers these developments through critically engaging with them as human technologies whereby certain cognitions, a…
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for pu…
The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Psychiatrization of, with and by children
When discussed in the context of diagnosing or medicating children, psychiatrization is usually portrayed as a more or less monolithic top-down process, which, according to some, enables a child’s right to health, while for others is a form of child abuse. This article challenges these conceptualizations in two steps: First, it draws on available literature on psychiatrization (including its top-down and bottom-up operations, and its ideological …
The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015. This includes a Duty on teachers in England to actively promote British Values to deter students from radicalisation. This paper, first, traces the history of Britishness in the curriculum to reveal a prevalence of nation…
Built for expansion
The focus of this study is the WHO's mhGAP-Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) 2.0 (2016), an evidence-based tool and guideline to help detect, diagnose and manage the most common mental disorders, designed for use by non-specialists globally but particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This research is a starting point in tracing the multiple 'doings' of mhGAP-IG - connecting questions of how it is 'done' and what does it 'do' - to the living…
The construction of mental health as a technological problem in India
This paper points to an underexplored relationship of reinforcement between processes of quantification and digitisation in the construction of mental health as amenable to technological intervention, in India. Increasingly, technology is used to collect mental health data, to diagnose mental health problems, and as a route of mental health intervention and clinical management. At the same time, mental health has become recognised as a new public…
Dead people don’t claim’
One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of ‘austerity suicide’ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease. Drawing on t…
From 'Invisible Problem' to Global Priority
Perceptions regarding the importance of mental health are shifting at a global level. Once described as an 'invisible problem' in international development, mental health is now being framed as one of the most pressing development issues of our time. Concern over the historical absence of mental health from the development agenda - despite its being regarded as a major obstacle to development - has led to its recent inclusion in the UN Sustainabl…
The mad are like savages and the savages are mad
This chapter emerges from the uncomfortable question of whether psychiatry (and the disciplines of the psy) can be both a tool of more traditional colonialism and a form of colonialism itself, and explores the continued coloniality of psychiatrisation. The discussion traces the interlacing histories of colonialism and psychiatry and their co-constitutive metaphors of savagery and madness, in order to think through what this means for current form…
The (Mis)appropriation of HIV/Aids advocacy strategies in Global Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, argue that treatments available in high-income countries should also be made available in low- and middle-income countries. Such arguments are often made by comparing mental health to infectious dis…
The psy-disciplines go to school
A growing body of research, largely from the global North, and particularly from North America, highlights the increasing psychiatrisation, medicalisation and psychologisation of children and childhood, and suggests that schools and educators play a key role in these processes. This increasing diffusion of psy-expertise within educational spaces signifies a cultural shift that has profound effects on teacher and student subjectivity, and on insti…
Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and promote wellbeing, others raise concerns that psychocentric development promotes individual over structural change, pathologises poverty, and depoliticises development. This paper specifically analys…
Measures of Social Isolation
The mad are like savages and the savages are mad
Dead people don’t claim’
One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of ‘austerity suicide’ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease. Drawing on t…
Measures of Social Isolation
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for pu…
The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015. This includes a Duty on teachers in England to actively promote British Values to deter students from radicalisation. This paper, first, traces the history of Britishness in the curriculum to reveal a prevalence of nation…
Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and promote wellbeing, others raise concerns that psychocentric development promotes individual over structural change, pathologises poverty, and depoliticises development. This paper specifically analys…
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism
The Prevent Strategy tasks the British education sector with preventing radicalisation and extremism. It defines extremism as opposition to fundamental British Values and requires schools to promote these values and refer students and staff believed to be vulnerable to radicalisation. Little research examining the enactment of the Prevent and British Values curriculum has included students. To fill this gap, we investigated how students, teachers…
From 'Invisible Problem' to Global Priority
Perceptions regarding the importance of mental health are shifting at a global level. Once described as an 'invisible problem' in international development, mental health is now being framed as one of the most pressing development issues of our time. Concern over the historical absence of mental health from the development agenda - despite its being regarded as a major obstacle to development - has led to its recent inclusion in the UN Sustainabl…
Built for expansion
The focus of this study is the WHO's mhGAP-Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) 2.0 (2016), an evidence-based tool and guideline to help detect, diagnose and manage the most common mental disorders, designed for use by non-specialists globally but particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This research is a starting point in tracing the multiple 'doings' of mhGAP-IG - connecting questions of how it is 'done' and what does it 'do' - to the living…
Critical reflections on the concept and impact of 'scaling up' in Global Mental Health
The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) aims to address the global burden of mental illness by focusing on closing the 'treatment gap' faced by many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To increase access to services, GMH prioritizes 'scaling up' mental health services, primarily advocating for the export of Western centred and developed biomedical and psychosocial 'evidence-based' approaches to the Global South. While this emphasis on scala…
Weaponising time in the war on welfare
In 2014, a long continuing battle began to find out more about Government record-keeping on the deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. Drawing on a timeline of evidence co-produced with disabled people, we analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Wor…
The psy-disciplines go to school
A growing body of research, largely from the global North, and particularly from North America, highlights the increasing psychiatrisation, medicalisation and psychologisation of children and childhood, and suggests that schools and educators play a key role in these processes. This increasing diffusion of psy-expertise within educational spaces signifies a cultural shift that has profound effects on teacher and student subjectivity, and on insti…
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health
Based on interviews with members of the Guideline Development Group (GDG) of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Guidelines for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders, this article adds empirical depth to understanding the contingent and strategic nature of universality in relation to mental health. Differently from debating whether or not mental health is global, the article outlines the peo…
Work-Life Conflict in Britain
This article examines the influence of job demands and job-related resources on the experience of two dimensions of work-life conflict (WLC) in Britain. Theory suggests that higher levels of resources should reduce WLC but empirical analyses often fail to find this effect. We address the issue by examining the impact of a wide range of resources as well as their interactions with job demands. Analyses of the Working in Britain 2000 survey suggest…
Decolonizing Global Mental Health
Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for Global Mental Health are calling to ‘scale up’ access to psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly within the global South. Simultaneously, in the global North, psychiatry and its often chemical treatments are coming under increased criticism (from both those who take the medication and those in the…
Sly Normality
Psychotropic Childhoods
While the W orld H ealth O rganization calls to ‘scale up’ access to psychotropic drugs for children in the global S outh, research from the global N orth has found that long‐term use of psychotropic drugs may be at best ineffective, or at worst harmful. Questioning what counts as evidence within the M ovement for G lobal M ental H ealth, this article maps the physical, psychological and sociopolitical effects of increasingly global psychotropic …
The Psychiatrization of Poverty
The positive association between ‘mental illness’ and poverty is one of the most well established in psychiatric epidemiology. Yet, there is little conclusive evidence about the nature of this relationship. Generally, explanations revolve around the idea of a vicious cycle, where poverty may cause mental ill health, and mental ill health may lead to poverty. Problematically, much of the literature overlooks the historical, social, political, and …
Work-Life Conflict in Britain
This article examines the influence of job demands and job-related resources on the experience of two dimensions of work-life conflict (WLC) in Britain. Theory suggests that higher levels of resources should reduce WLC but empirical analyses often fail to find this effect. We address the issue by examining the impact of a wide range of resources as well as their interactions with job demands. Analyses of the Working in Britain 2000 survey suggest…
The mad are like savages and the savages are mad
This chapter emerges from the uncomfortable question of whether psychiatry (and the disciplines of the psy) can be both a tool of more traditional colonialism and a form of colonialism itself, and explores the continued coloniality of psychiatrisation. The discussion traces the interlacing histories of colonialism and psychiatry and their co-constitutive metaphors of savagery and madness, in order to think through what this means for current form…
The (Mis)appropriation of HIV/Aids advocacy strategies in Global Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, argue that treatments available in high-income countries should also be made available in low- and middle-income countries. Such arguments are often made by comparing mental health to infectious dis…
The psy-disciplines go to school
A growing body of research, largely from the global North, and particularly from North America, highlights the increasing psychiatrisation, medicalisation and psychologisation of children and childhood, and suggests that schools and educators play a key role in these processes. This increasing diffusion of psy-expertise within educational spaces signifies a cultural shift that has profound effects on teacher and student subjectivity, and on insti…
Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and promote wellbeing, others raise concerns that psychocentric development promotes individual over structural change, pathologises poverty, and depoliticises development. This paper specifically analys…
Measures of Social Isolation
The construction of mental health as a technological problem in India
This paper points to an underexplored relationship of reinforcement between processes of quantification and digitisation in the construction of mental health as amenable to technological intervention, in India. Increasingly, technology is used to collect mental health data, to diagnose mental health problems, and as a route of mental health intervention and clinical management. At the same time, mental health has become recognised as a new public…
Dead people don’t claim’
One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of ‘austerity suicide’ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease. Drawing on t…
From 'Invisible Problem' to Global Priority
Perceptions regarding the importance of mental health are shifting at a global level. Once described as an 'invisible problem' in international development, mental health is now being framed as one of the most pressing development issues of our time. Concern over the historical absence of mental health from the development agenda - despite its being regarded as a major obstacle to development - has led to its recent inclusion in the UN Sustainabl…
Built for expansion
The focus of this study is the WHO's mhGAP-Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) 2.0 (2016), an evidence-based tool and guideline to help detect, diagnose and manage the most common mental disorders, designed for use by non-specialists globally but particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This research is a starting point in tracing the multiple 'doings' of mhGAP-IG - connecting questions of how it is 'done' and what does it 'do' - to the living…
The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Psychiatrization of, with and by children
When discussed in the context of diagnosing or medicating children, psychiatrization is usually portrayed as a more or less monolithic top-down process, which, according to some, enables a child’s right to health, while for others is a form of child abuse. This article challenges these conceptualizations in two steps: First, it draws on available literature on psychiatrization (including its top-down and bottom-up operations, and its ideological …
The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015. This includes a Duty on teachers in England to actively promote British Values to deter students from radicalisation. This paper, first, traces the history of Britishness in the curriculum to reveal a prevalence of nation…
Enacting Treaty Rights through Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation
Despite great loss in gathering and consumption of traditional foods among Indigenous communities, there is great hope for reclaiming and preserving knowledge. The Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Gathering (RSAFG) is a community group leading grassroots efforts on the Wind River reservation to reclaim Shoshone ancestral foods and promote food sovereignty. The story of the RSAFG promotes equitable, decolonized, and community empowered methods of…
Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex
Minds, behaviours and psyches are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, welfare, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is new, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This special section considers these developments through critically engaging with them as human technologies whereby certain cognitions, a…
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for pu…
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Mad by the Millions
Those of us who work within or on the margins of Global Mental Health often grapple with the question of what is Global Mental Health, and when did it begin? Histories of Global Mental Health have been narrated in different ways and from different starting points, with some telling a linear chronological history starting anywhere from ancient history (Cohen et al., 2013) to the 1990 Caracas Declaration of Mental Health and Human Rights (Patel et …
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism
The Prevent Strategy tasks the British education sector with preventing radicalisation and extremism. It defines extremism as opposition to fundamental British Values and requires schools to promote these values and refer students and staff believed to be vulnerable to radicalisation. Little research examining the enactment of the Prevent and British Values curriculum has included students. To fill this gap, we investigated how students, teachers…
Critical reflections on the concept and impact of 'scaling up' in Global Mental Health
The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) aims to address the global burden of mental illness by focusing on closing the 'treatment gap' faced by many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To increase access to services, GMH prioritizes 'scaling up' mental health services, primarily advocating for the export of Western centred and developed biomedical and psychosocial 'evidence-based' approaches to the Global South. While this emphasis on scala…
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health
Based on interviews with members of the Guideline Development Group (GDG) of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Guidelines for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders, this article adds empirical depth to understanding the contingent and strategic nature of universality in relation to mental health. Differently from debating whether or not mental health is global, the article outlines the peo…
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