This article reflects on the limits and possibilities for articulating the anti-asylum struggle with participatory city master plans (PMPs) in Brazil with the aim of helping enhance anti-asylum care in liberty and guaranteeing the rights of people experiencing mental suffering. Departing from the premise that the city is neither a therapeutic nor a caring environment, this analysis seeks to weave together the challenges of "living in liberty" with urban planning policies guided by PMPs. To this end, we analyzed terms pertaining to the anti-asylum struggle and Brazil's mental health reform in the PMPs of the 15 highest-scoring cities in the Connected Smart Cities Ranking. The findings show that it is important for the anti-asylum struggle to dispute municipal urban policies in wider legislative arenas in order to promote further advances in deinstitutionalization and a transformation of the social place of madness, and guarantee the rights of people experiencing mental suffering in cities.
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Cien Saude Colet
January 2022
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Rua Gal. Milton Tavares s/n Instituto de Geociências, Campus Praia Vermelha Boa Viagem. 24210-346 Niterói RJ
This article reflects on the limits and possibilities for articulating the anti-asylum struggle with participatory city master plans (PMPs) in Brazil with the aim of helping enhance anti-asylum care in liberty and guaranteeing the rights of people experiencing mental suffering. Departing from the premise that the city is neither a therapeutic nor a caring environment, this analysis seeks to weave together the challenges of "living in liberty" with urban planning policies guided by PMPs. To this end, we analyzed terms pertaining to the anti-asylum struggle and Brazil's mental health reform in the PMPs of the 15 highest-scoring cities in the Connected Smart Cities Ranking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCien Saude Colet
September 2007
Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Sociologia e Ciência Política, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Trindade, Trindade, 88040-900 Florianopolis SC.
This study reviews the history of the national anti-asylum struggle in Brazil. It analyzes some of the movement's difficulties, achievements and challenges. The theory of social movements is used here as an important analytical tool to understand this collective action, to the degree in which theory allows an appraisal of this type of social action rooted in its many configurations, evidencing the complexity of the contemporary world.
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