Alex V Barnard
Biographic Data
| ID | 193609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex V Barnard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex V |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnard |
| SIGNATURE | BARNARD A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8470-9196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consentement et compliance: Des sujets utilisables dans les audiences d’hospitalisation psychiatrique sans consentement à Paris et à New York
Comment les professionnels du droit et de la médecine construisent-ils, au tribunal, le statut légal et l’état mental des patients, et comment ces derniers participent-ils à ces constructions? Cet article s’appuie sur l’analyse de 300 audiences à Paris et à New York, au cours desquelles des personnes hospitalisées sans consentement demandent leur sortie. Dans les deux villes, les tribunaux rejettent la grande majorité des requêtes. Ils le font en…
Conservatorships: Coercion without Care or Control
Disability rights groups fight against them and politicians seek to expand their use: A close look at policy and practice in California reveals the pitfalls of legal conservatorships for the patients, families, and community providers who need real help, not just blunt instruments
Consent and compliance: Serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York
How do legal and medical professionals construct patients' legal status and mental states in courtrooms, and how do patients themselves shape those constructions? This paper analyzes 300 hearings in Paris and New York City where people who have been involuntarily hospitalized in psychiatric facilities ask to be released. In both cities, courts reject the vast majority of requests. They do so by drawing on the two systems' distinctive legal repert…
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California
How do place and social context shape how policymakers construct the targets of state interventions? This paper analyzes recent proposals in California to subject people experiencing homelessness to involuntary psychiatric treatment. Using newspaper articles, legislative hearings, government reports, and interviews, we show how policymakers frame 'the homeless mentally ill' in distinctive ways: Chronic and contained people who require extended in…
A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945-2016)
Research on psychiatry in the United States has shown how, since the 1980s, the discipline has sought to increase its prestige and preserve its jurisdiction by embracing biomedical models of treatment and arguing it is a medical specialty like any other. While this strategy is consistent with what the literature on professions would expect, this paper analyzes an alternative case: French public psychiatry, which has remained in a position of marg…
The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
From the “Magna Carta” to “Dying in the Streets”: Media Framings of Mental Health Law in California
This article analyzes 575 newspaper articles across 53 years of reporting on California’s landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to examine framings of the challenges people with severe mental illness pose to the social order and shifting responses to them. The LPS Act restricted involuntary hospitalization which in the 1960s made it a “Magna Carta” that heralded a “mental health revolution” of voluntary, community-based care. Subsequentl…
Das Unbehagen an der Ordinalisierung
Rachel Kahn Best, Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America
Bureaucratically split personalities: (Re)ordering the mentally disordered in the French state
Freegans: Diving into the wealth of food waste in America
If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste--while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away--including food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people in this movement, offering a broader perspectiv…
Making the City 'Second Nature: Freegan 'Dumpster Divers' and the Materiality of Morality
How do people maintain deeply held moral identities in a seemingly immoral social environment? Cultural sociologists and social psychologists have focused on how individuals cope with contexts that make acting on moral motivations difficult by building supportive networks and embedding themselves in communities of like-minded people. In this article, however, the author argues that actors can achieve a moral "sense of one's place" through a habit…
Waving the banana' at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York's 'freegan' dumpster divers
This article presents an ethnographic study of 'freegans', individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. Ne…
Waving the banana' at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York's 'freegan' dumpster divers
This article presents an ethnographic study of 'freegans', individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. Ne…
The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
Bureaucratically split personalities: (Re)ordering the mentally disordered in the French state
Making the City 'Second Nature: Freegan 'Dumpster Divers' and the Materiality of Morality
How do people maintain deeply held moral identities in a seemingly immoral social environment? Cultural sociologists and social psychologists have focused on how individuals cope with contexts that make acting on moral motivations difficult by building supportive networks and embedding themselves in communities of like-minded people. In this article, however, the author argues that actors can achieve a moral "sense of one's place" through a habit…
Das Unbehagen an der Ordinalisierung
Waving the banana' at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York's 'freegan' dumpster divers
This article presents an ethnographic study of 'freegans', individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. Ne…
Freegans: Diving into the wealth of food waste in America
If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste--while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away--including food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people in this movement, offering a broader perspectiv…
Making the City 'Second Nature: Freegan 'Dumpster Divers' and the Materiality of Morality
How do people maintain deeply held moral identities in a seemingly immoral social environment? Cultural sociologists and social psychologists have focused on how individuals cope with contexts that make acting on moral motivations difficult by building supportive networks and embedding themselves in communities of like-minded people. In this article, however, the author argues that actors can achieve a moral "sense of one's place" through a habit…
Bureaucratically split personalities: (Re)ordering the mentally disordered in the French state
Rachel Kahn Best, Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America
Das Unbehagen an der Ordinalisierung
From the “Magna Carta” to “Dying in the Streets”: Media Framings of Mental Health Law in California
This article analyzes 575 newspaper articles across 53 years of reporting on California’s landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to examine framings of the challenges people with severe mental illness pose to the social order and shifting responses to them. The LPS Act restricted involuntary hospitalization which in the 1960s made it a “Magna Carta” that heralded a “mental health revolution” of voluntary, community-based care. Subsequentl…
The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945-2016)
Research on psychiatry in the United States has shown how, since the 1980s, the discipline has sought to increase its prestige and preserve its jurisdiction by embracing biomedical models of treatment and arguing it is a medical specialty like any other. While this strategy is consistent with what the literature on professions would expect, this paper analyzes an alternative case: French public psychiatry, which has remained in a position of marg…
Conservatorships: Coercion without Care or Control
Disability rights groups fight against them and politicians seek to expand their use: A close look at policy and practice in California reveals the pitfalls of legal conservatorships for the patients, families, and community providers who need real help, not just blunt instruments
Consent and compliance: Serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York
How do legal and medical professionals construct patients' legal status and mental states in courtrooms, and how do patients themselves shape those constructions? This paper analyzes 300 hearings in Paris and New York City where people who have been involuntarily hospitalized in psychiatric facilities ask to be released. In both cities, courts reject the vast majority of requests. They do so by drawing on the two systems' distinctive legal repert…
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California
How do place and social context shape how policymakers construct the targets of state interventions? This paper analyzes recent proposals in California to subject people experiencing homelessness to involuntary psychiatric treatment. Using newspaper articles, legislative hearings, government reports, and interviews, we show how policymakers frame 'the homeless mentally ill' in distinctive ways: Chronic and contained people who require extended in…
Consentement et compliance: Des sujets utilisables dans les audiences d’hospitalisation psychiatrique sans consentement à Paris et à New York
Comment les professionnels du droit et de la médecine construisent-ils, au tribunal, le statut légal et l’état mental des patients, et comment ces derniers participent-ils à ces constructions? Cet article s’appuie sur l’analyse de 300 audiences à Paris et à New York, au cours desquelles des personnes hospitalisées sans consentement demandent leur sortie. Dans les deux villes, les tribunaux rejettent la grande majorité des requêtes. Ils le font en…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works)