Researchers’ agency and the boundaries of global mental health: perspectives from and about Latin America
Cristian Montenegro, Gabriel Abarca-Brown, Elaine C Flores, Ezra Susser, Eliut Rivera, Alejandra Paniagua-Ávila, Ana Carolina Florence, Franco Mascayano · 2024
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Cristian Montenegro and co-authors question how much change individual researchers can be expected to carry in global mental health, writing from Latin American experience, in a paper from 2024. Calls to decolonize the field ask researchers to examine their own biases and power. The authors worry that framing puts the weight on self awareness while the structures that fund and publish the work stay untouched.
Three collaborations based in or focused on South America supply the evidence: a regional research network, a platform for social research on mental health, and a project on health workers. Rather than ranking them, the paper draws out what they share about slow, contingent partnership. Agency, the authors argue, is real but bounded, and reform talk should say so honestly.
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| CREATOR | Cristian Montenegro, Gabriel Abarca-Brown, Elaine C Flores, Ezra Susser, Eliut Rivera, Alejandra Paniagua-Ávila, Ana Carolina Florence, Franco Mascayano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |