Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat | Book Review
Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) by Hannah Proctor.
‘Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics’: Book Review
Sabina Dosani reviews Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) by Nigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce. In the year to March 2020, Black people were more than four times as likely as
Covid-19 knowledge and the ‘bad expert’
Paige Sweet and Danielle Giffort examine the cultural work involved in the production, circulation and validation of Covid-19 knowledge, via an analysis of the abject figure of the ‘bad expert’. Paige: Danielle and
‘Dying of Whiteness’: Book Review
Rachel Jane Liebert reviews Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness: How the politics of racial resentment is killing America’s heartland (Basic Books: 2019). Having found Jonathan Metzl’s previous books – Prozac on the Couch and The
Atonal Train Stations: Weaponized Music in Berlin’s Drug War
The power of music to affect our psychological composition and influence our moods is not a new concept. Examples range from the soundscape design in shopping malls to the burgeoning field of music therapy
Illness as metaphor II: Ear for eye
I ended last month by suggesting that we need works of art which strip illness bare of its metaphors and give truth value to both its social conditions and the testimonies of those affected.