'Along with Bauman, I refer to relevant thinkers including Erving Goffman, Guy Debord, Kalle Lasn, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Kate Soper, Juliet Schor and Alex Barnard.'

I'm a bit player when it comes to mental illness, but for freeganism I'm next to Goffman and Debord.

Judging by my students' media analysis papers, the once-dominant role of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' in shaping society's understanding of mental illness has been replaced by...

Silver Linings Playbook
(Girl, Interrupted a close second).

A fascinating read that I'm paring with Roi Livne's 'Values at the End of Life' in my lecture today, discussing the economization of medical care!

Posting this one more time for fans of what inspired me to write this essay: Quality-Adjusted Life Years, which the House recently voted to ban for use in policymaking on a strict party line vote (211 Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed)

'In hundreds of interviews with clinicians and dozens of ride-alongs with first responders, I’ve seen how a scarcity of programs leads to a war-like system of triage.'

having nancy pelosi sign the same letter calling for suspending US arms sales to israel as rashida tlaib and cori bush seems like a watershed moment, however cynical about such things you want to be

The Supreme Court will soon take up Grants Pass v Johnson, a crucial case regarding the criminalization of homelessness. We Institute on Inequality & Democracy are proud to join chris herring Randall Kuhn & other UCLA scholars in an amicus brief filed by Public Justice : publicjustice.net/grantspass-v-j…

Proud to be a co-signer on the brief to the Supreme Court.

chris herring: “Research consistently finds that the enforcement of anti-homeless laws not only fails to reduce homelessness…but exacerbates…public health conditions, and increases vulnerability to crime and violence.”

Come join the conversation: This Saturday in San Diego I'll be chatting w/ neil gong about his important new book looking at the mental health/treatment landscape of California. Library Foundation SD For more information, libraryfoundationsd.org/events/gong

Book talks are great, but absolutely nothing beats seeing a dog-eared, highlighted, coffee-stained, bent-cover copy of your work in the wild.

For everyone who has ever wondered if culture shapes mental health care, read Alex Barnard 🇺🇦!

The alternative trajectories of the French and US psychiatric disciplines are not accidents. The care context is key:

(1/2) Former UC Berkeley Sociology Ph.D. student + current New York University Sociology Prof. Alex V. Barnard
(@avb_soc) discussed his new book Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness during a recent SocialScienceMatrix event.