Gabriel Abarca-Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 875830 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gabriel Abarca-Brown |
| NOMBRES | Gabriel |
| APELLIDO | Abarca-Brown |
| FIRMA | ABARCA-BROWN G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5369-1616 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Redefining social medicine from Latin America
This article examines the contemporary meaning of social medicine, a field marked by its porous boundaries, plurality, and contestation. Rather than offering a fixed definition, we trace its shifting forms across time, geography, and politics, positioning it as a “boundary object” that adapts to diverse contexts while retaining a minimal common identity. Comparative discussion with medical anthropology, social studies of medicine, global health, …
Social medicine beyond the medical curriculum
Current debates in social medicine and global health have emphasized the medical curriculum as a means to foster awareness, reflexivity, and sensitivity among medical students and practitioners. Yet, this curricular focus may come at a cost, risking a narrowing of the scope of social medicine by neglecting broader historical, political, and ideological forces. This article argues for a reorientation that situates contemporary social medicine with…
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant
The encounters between health institutions, practitioners, and Haitian and Dominican communities have triggered several frictions and conflicts in the public health system in Chile since 2010, especially in maternal child health. In this article, I explore the interactions between health institutions, "psy" technologies, and afro-descendant women registered in the "Chile Crece Contigo" program and how these interactions impact women's subjectivit…
Researchers’ agency and the boundaries of global mental health
The decolonise global health movement has critically reassessed the field’s historical and political underpinnings, urging researchers to recognise biases and power imbalances through reflexivity and action. Genuine change is seen as the outcome of the researcher’s self-awareness, often leaving the underlying structures of global health—and global mental health (GMH)—in the background. Here, we problematise how expectations around agency and chan…
A historical perspective on structural-based mental health approaches in Latin America
The growth of identity struggles and intersectional debates has presented challenges for public health services in Chile and Brazil. In this context, researchers, stakeholders, health practitioners, and activists have recently brought contemporary debates on professionals’ competency to the fore. Debate in Chile and Brazil has primarily centered on US-based discussions on cultural and structural competency. However, emerging concerns regarding id…
Becoming a (Neuro)migrant
Based on a multi-sited ethnography conducted over 14 months in northern Santiago, I examine how the introduction of a series of health policies and the global mental health agenda has interacted with and impacted Haitian migrants in the context of a postdictatorship neoliberal Chile (1990-2019). Specifically, I explore the interactions between health and social institutions, mental health practitioners, psy technologies, and Haitian migrants, hig…
Structuralizing Culture
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration, multiculturalism, and mental health in health services in Chile since 2010. In this article, I explore how mental health institutions, experts, and practitioners have taken a cultural turn in working with migrant communities in this new multicultural scenario. Based on a multisited ethnography conducted o…
Toward a new relationship between history and global mental health
This paper explores the relationship between historical research and the field of global mental health. It identifies a gap in the current literature, and argues that an in-depth historical approach is critical for understanding and overcoming current challenges and controversies in global mental health. The authors propose that a thick historical analysis has the capacity to broaden and diversify the discussion about the core concepts in global …
La (de)colonización va por dentro
En este artículo exploramos las contradicciones y conflictos epistémicos, políticos y éticos que los profesionales de la salud mental encarnan en el trabajo tanto con migrantes haitianos como con agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas en el contexto del sistema público de salud mental en Chile, marcado por procesos de neoliberalización durante los últimos treinta años. A partir de dos etnografías, argumentamos que el trabajo con ambos g…
Towards a “transitioning”
We analyze how the interactions between the trans population and the Chilean healthcare system shape specific processes of malaise associated with gender transition (“tránsito de género”). Adopting psychoanalytic and transfeminist conceptual approaches, as well as a biographical methodology, we examine autobiographical narratives of three trans subjects. We discuss three topics: childhood as a critical period for gender transition and malaise; th…
Vida cotidiana y experiencias morales de un grupo de jóvenes en conflicto con la ley en Santiago, Chile
En este artículo exploramos la vida cotidiana de un grupo de jóvenes en conflicto con la ley y las relaciones que mantienen con los dispositivos y las estrategias de la actual Ley 20.084 de Responsabilidad Penal Adolescente (LRPA). Para ello describimos el contexto etnográfico de la investigación. Posteriormente mostramos los modos de sociabilidad juvenil, sus experiencias morales y las interacciones que mantienen con los dispositivos de la LRPA.…
Vidal F, Ortega F. Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject. New York
Resenhas Book Reviews : Vidal F, Ortega F. Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject. New York: Fordham University Press; 2017
ADHD and Gender
Although research on ADHD has tended to ignore gender differentials, recent contributions produced mainly from epidemiology have revealed that this diagnostic category seems to be strongly related to gender. However, these contributions seem to limit their scope to the study of the symptoms as well as cognitive, affective and social functioning of children, leaving aside subjective aspects associated with the ADHD practices of diagnosis and treat…
Sobre la responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja
The present article aims to discuss about the conceptions of responsibility as a criterion of quality of interventions with men that commit violence in couple contexts, at the light of the contributions of Bourdieu’s sociology and freudian-lacanian psychoanalysis. It is discussed about volitional dimension assigned to the violent act, on the one hand, and the kantian stamp with which there is conceived the ideal one of assumption of responsibilit…
Sobre la responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo discutir en torno a la concepción de responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja, a la luz de los aportes realizados por la sociología de Bourdieu y el psicoanálisis freudo-lacaniano. Se discute sobre la dimensión volitiva asignada al acto violento, por una parte, y la impronta kantiana con la que se concibe el ideal de asunción de …
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant
The encounters between health institutions, practitioners, and Haitian and Dominican communities have triggered several frictions and conflicts in the public health system in Chile since 2010, especially in maternal child health. In this article, I explore the interactions between health institutions, "psy" technologies, and afro-descendant women registered in the "Chile Crece Contigo" program and how these interactions impact women's subjectivit…
Becoming a (Neuro)migrant
Based on a multi-sited ethnography conducted over 14 months in northern Santiago, I examine how the introduction of a series of health policies and the global mental health agenda has interacted with and impacted Haitian migrants in the context of a postdictatorship neoliberal Chile (1990-2019). Specifically, I explore the interactions between health and social institutions, mental health practitioners, psy technologies, and Haitian migrants, hig…
Structuralizing Culture
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration, multiculturalism, and mental health in health services in Chile since 2010. In this article, I explore how mental health institutions, experts, and practitioners have taken a cultural turn in working with migrant communities in this new multicultural scenario. Based on a multisited ethnography conducted o…
La (de)colonización va por dentro
En este artículo exploramos las contradicciones y conflictos epistémicos, políticos y éticos que los profesionales de la salud mental encarnan en el trabajo tanto con migrantes haitianos como con agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas en el contexto del sistema público de salud mental en Chile, marcado por procesos de neoliberalización durante los últimos treinta años. A partir de dos etnografías, argumentamos que el trabajo con ambos g…
ADHD and Gender
Although research on ADHD has tended to ignore gender differentials, recent contributions produced mainly from epidemiology have revealed that this diagnostic category seems to be strongly related to gender. However, these contributions seem to limit their scope to the study of the symptoms as well as cognitive, affective and social functioning of children, leaving aside subjective aspects associated with the ADHD practices of diagnosis and treat…
Sobre la responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja
The present article aims to discuss about the conceptions of responsibility as a criterion of quality of interventions with men that commit violence in couple contexts, at the light of the contributions of Bourdieu’s sociology and freudian-lacanian psychoanalysis. It is discussed about volitional dimension assigned to the violent act, on the one hand, and the kantian stamp with which there is conceived the ideal one of assumption of responsibilit…
Sobre la responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo discutir en torno a la concepción de responsabilidad como criterio de calidad de las intervenciones con varones que ejercen violencia en contextos de pareja, a la luz de los aportes realizados por la sociología de Bourdieu y el psicoanálisis freudo-lacaniano. Se discute sobre la dimensión volitiva asignada al acto violento, por una parte, y la impronta kantiana con la que se concibe el ideal de asunción de …
ADHD and Gender
Although research on ADHD has tended to ignore gender differentials, recent contributions produced mainly from epidemiology have revealed that this diagnostic category seems to be strongly related to gender. However, these contributions seem to limit their scope to the study of the symptoms as well as cognitive, affective and social functioning of children, leaving aside subjective aspects associated with the ADHD practices of diagnosis and treat…
Vidal F, Ortega F. Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject. New York
Resenhas Book Reviews : Vidal F, Ortega F. Being Brains. Making the Cerebral Subject. New York: Fordham University Press; 2017
Vida cotidiana y experiencias morales de un grupo de jóvenes en conflicto con la ley en Santiago, Chile
En este artículo exploramos la vida cotidiana de un grupo de jóvenes en conflicto con la ley y las relaciones que mantienen con los dispositivos y las estrategias de la actual Ley 20.084 de Responsabilidad Penal Adolescente (LRPA). Para ello describimos el contexto etnográfico de la investigación. Posteriormente mostramos los modos de sociabilidad juvenil, sus experiencias morales y las interacciones que mantienen con los dispositivos de la LRPA.…
Towards a “transitioning”
We analyze how the interactions between the trans population and the Chilean healthcare system shape specific processes of malaise associated with gender transition (“tránsito de género”). Adopting psychoanalytic and transfeminist conceptual approaches, as well as a biographical methodology, we examine autobiographical narratives of three trans subjects. We discuss three topics: childhood as a critical period for gender transition and malaise; th…
Toward a new relationship between history and global mental health
This paper explores the relationship between historical research and the field of global mental health. It identifies a gap in the current literature, and argues that an in-depth historical approach is critical for understanding and overcoming current challenges and controversies in global mental health. The authors propose that a thick historical analysis has the capacity to broaden and diversify the discussion about the core concepts in global …
La (de)colonización va por dentro
En este artículo exploramos las contradicciones y conflictos epistémicos, políticos y éticos que los profesionales de la salud mental encarnan en el trabajo tanto con migrantes haitianos como con agrupaciones de usuarios y exusuarios activistas en el contexto del sistema público de salud mental en Chile, marcado por procesos de neoliberalización durante los últimos treinta años. A partir de dos etnografías, argumentamos que el trabajo con ambos g…
Researchers’ agency and the boundaries of global mental health
The decolonise global health movement has critically reassessed the field’s historical and political underpinnings, urging researchers to recognise biases and power imbalances through reflexivity and action. Genuine change is seen as the outcome of the researcher’s self-awareness, often leaving the underlying structures of global health—and global mental health (GMH)—in the background. Here, we problematise how expectations around agency and chan…
A historical perspective on structural-based mental health approaches in Latin America
The growth of identity struggles and intersectional debates has presented challenges for public health services in Chile and Brazil. In this context, researchers, stakeholders, health practitioners, and activists have recently brought contemporary debates on professionals’ competency to the fore. Debate in Chile and Brazil has primarily centered on US-based discussions on cultural and structural competency. However, emerging concerns regarding id…
Becoming a (Neuro)migrant
Based on a multi-sited ethnography conducted over 14 months in northern Santiago, I examine how the introduction of a series of health policies and the global mental health agenda has interacted with and impacted Haitian migrants in the context of a postdictatorship neoliberal Chile (1990-2019). Specifically, I explore the interactions between health and social institutions, mental health practitioners, psy technologies, and Haitian migrants, hig…
Structuralizing Culture
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration, multiculturalism, and mental health in health services in Chile since 2010. In this article, I explore how mental health institutions, experts, and practitioners have taken a cultural turn in working with migrant communities in this new multicultural scenario. Based on a multisited ethnography conducted o…
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant
The encounters between health institutions, practitioners, and Haitian and Dominican communities have triggered several frictions and conflicts in the public health system in Chile since 2010, especially in maternal child health. In this article, I explore the interactions between health institutions, "psy" technologies, and afro-descendant women registered in the "Chile Crece Contigo" program and how these interactions impact women's subjectivit…
Redefining social medicine from Latin America
This article examines the contemporary meaning of social medicine, a field marked by its porous boundaries, plurality, and contestation. Rather than offering a fixed definition, we trace its shifting forms across time, geography, and politics, positioning it as a “boundary object” that adapts to diverse contexts while retaining a minimal common identity. Comparative discussion with medical anthropology, social studies of medicine, global health, …
Social medicine beyond the medical curriculum
Current debates in social medicine and global health have emphasized the medical curriculum as a means to foster awareness, reflexivity, and sensitivity among medical students and practitioners. Yet, this curricular focus may come at a cost, risking a narrowing of the scope of social medicine by neglecting broader historical, political, and ideological forces. This article argues for a reorientation that situates contemporary social medicine with…
Psychology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Humanities (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Mental health (4 obras) · Latin Americans (3 obras)