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Cultivating an ethic of wellness in Geography
Author(s) -
Mullings Beverley,
Peake Linda,
Parizeau Kate
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12275
Subject(s) - mental health , presentation (obstetrics) , space (punctuation) , sociology , public relations , political science , social science , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , radiology
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining the crisis of mental health and wellbeing in neoliberalizing universities, and institutional and individual responses.Watch a video presentation of this Special Issue