Mark your calendars, the Café returns on April 19 at 12 pm (PT)
Neil Gong will present his just-released Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, a comparative ethnography of psychiatric care systems for the rich and the poor in LA. Owen Whooley will be our discussant.
Join us to discuss the logic of comparison, theory building, the nitty-gritty of fieldwork in mental health settings, and the way ethnography can help us both study existing institutions and imagine better ones.
You can read excerpts of Gong's book here.
Zoom:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99939108952?pwd=VTE1RXhDemVzbXkyVzdtbGVCVlM3UT09
Meeting ID: 999 3910 8952
Passcode: 1234
Ékédi Mpondo-Dika, Loïc Wacquant, and Ashley Mears