University Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK.
Professor of Cultural Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 6th Floor, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF, UK.
Health Place. 2021 May;69:102577. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102577. Epub 2021 Apr 29.
How might urban mental health be understood when animals reconfigure human wellbeing in the lived city? Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork on people and macaques in New Delhi and forging novel conversations between urban studies, ecology and psychiatry, our ontology of urban mental health moves from lived experience of the built environment to those configured by dwelling with various interlocutors: animals, astral bodies and supernatural currents. These relations create microspaces of wellbeing, keeping forces of urban precarity at bay. This paper discusses mental health ecologies in different registers: subjectivity being environmental, its scale being relational rather than binary, enmeshed in the dynamics of other-than-human life, and involving conversations between medical and vernacular practices rather than hierarchies of knowledge.
当动物重新构建城市中的人类幸福感时，我们应该如何理解城市心理健康？本文通过对新德里的人类和猕猴进行民族志实地调查，并在城市研究、生态学和精神病学之间建立新的对话，将城市心理健康的本体论从对建筑环境的生活体验转移到与各种对话者（动物、天体和超自然流）共同居住所构建的体验。这些关系创造了微观的幸福感空间，使城市脆弱性的力量得以抵御。本文在不同层面上讨论了心理健康的生态：主体性是环境的，其规模是关系性的而不是二元的，与非人类生命的动态交织在一起，并涉及医学和民间实践之间的对话，而不是知识的等级制度。
