Mental health and human rights are dramatically interlocked constructs. There is no mental well-being without peace and equity and vice versa. Mental prosperity seems to be thought of as a consolidated right just for privileged groups; in contrast, oppressed and marginalized individuals most often resulted in being blamed for their incapability to handle their living conditions and adjust to challenges and adversities because of a lack of civilization, poor personal and social capital, or inadequate relational skills. More recently, critical global mental health and global public health have recognized the urgent need to analyze and intervene in the political determinants and antecedents of cogent global challenges of our contemporaneity, such as environmental, gender, economic, and ethnic racism. In addition, transnational and intersectional feminist and postcolonial perspectives have exposed patriarchal whiteness as the dominant grammar informing the mainstream of psychology and psychiatry, unveiling the extractivist strategies of the so-called essentialist culture and performing gender-sensitive protocols. Indigenous and postcolonial participatory approaches propose themselves as a genuine alternative to conceptual and intervention models aiming at re-socializing and readapting people to iniquitous and unjust classist and racialized living conditions.
1st Edition | July 22-26, 2024
Faculty
Guido Veronese, University of Milano-Bicocca
Francesca Antonacci, University of Milano-Bicocca
Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter
Rami Rmeileh, University of Exeter
Alex L. Pieterse, Boston College
Brinton Lykes, Boston College
Francesco Vacchiano, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Sabrina Marchetti, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giulia Zanini, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Gaia Giuliani, CES - University of Coimbra
Ashraf Kagee, Stellenbosch University
Lou Marie Kruger, Stellenbosch University
Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town
