Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise

The Making of 'Global Mental Health' Knowledge

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2236629
AutoresAnnabelle Littoz‐monnet (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, autor de correspondencia), Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (0000-0002-0258-3735)
Año2022
Volumen16
Número2
Fecha de publicación2022-06-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olab035
OpenAlexW4226407104
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas49

Global mental health expertise favors biomedical explanations of mental disorders that conceive such disorders as stable entities, which can be diagnosed according to universal categories. Following this logic, universal and standardized solutions can also be applied throughout the world, regardless of context. Despite its assumptions and data being contested within the field of psychiatry itself, global mental health expertise has been highly stable. How is such expertise produced? Through what mechanisms are its products, such as reports, studies, or numbers, made and replicated? The article proposes a model of expertise production in global governance that discloses specific mechanisms of circularity and exclusivity in knowledge-making processes, which result in the circular and exclusive character of expertise itself. These include the circulation of profesionals and data across spheres and organizations, as well as the role played by several sites such as boundary expert groups, influential research clusters, and 'policy-scientific' journals, which operate as powerful centers of knowledge production at the intersection of the policy, scientific or private spheres. Such sites not only act as loci where people's circulation operates at its best but also as autonomous mechanisms that produce, cement, and perpetuate the circularity and exclusivity of expertise beyond the role of specific individuals

Biology · Boundary (topology) · Context (archaeology) · Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Global mental health · Intersection (aeronautics) · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Management · Mental health · Political science · Production (economics) · Psychiatry · Public relations · Science policy · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Health and Surgery · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Mathematics · Psychology