The urban brain : mental health in the vital city / Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Nikolas S., author.

Fitzgerald, Des, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Health aspects.

Cities and towns.

Urban health.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Health aspects.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Mental health--Environmental aspects.

Mental health.

Stress (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness Most of the world's people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions. Reexamining the relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them.Drawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. The result demonstrates what we can gain by a vitalist approach to the mental lives of those migrating to and living in cities, focusing on the ways that humans make, remake, and inhabit their urban lifeworlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Seeing the Urban Brain

The Biopolitics of Stress

Epigenetics: Beyond the Genetic Program

Neuroplasticity: The Modulated Brain

The Exposome: An Urban Sensorium

Toward a Conception of the Neurosocial City

6. Another Urban Biopolitics Is Possible

Urban Justice: The Right to the City

Of 'Other' Urban Spaces

Transcorporeal Exposures: Beyond the Binary

Opening Our Eyes

Mental Maps of the Imagined City

Ecological Psychology

Niching

Precarious Niching

A New Urban Biopolitics?

Conclusion: Toward a Sociology of Inhabitation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Mental Health and 'the Slums'

Crushed Dreams or First Steps

3. The Metropolis and Mental Life Today-Shanghai 2018

Migrant Nation

Migrant Labor

China: A Mental Health Crisis?

'Stress' and the Psy Complex

Measuring and Managing Migrant Mental Health

4. Everyone Knows What Stress Is and No One Knows What Stress Is

General Adaptation Syndrome

Locating Stress

Rat Cities, City Rats

The Meaning of Urban Stress

Stress and Beyond: Toward the Urban Brain

5. The Urban Brain

The Urbanicity Effect

Understanding Urbanicity-To a New Style of Thought?

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Embodied Brains

Urban Inhabitations

Moving People

Vital Sociology

The Plan of the Book

1. Modern Cities, Migrant Cities

Mentalities of Migration

Seeing the City

Chicago: Proud and Vigorous

Philadelphia: Striving, Palpitating

How Do They Really Live?

From Migrant Biopolitics to Migration Studies

The Migrant City Today

2. Migration, the Metropolis, and Mental Disorder

Psychiatry Encounters Migration

Degeneracy, Eugenics, and Migration

Migration and Mental Health Today

Refining 'Migration'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rose, Nikolas S. Urban brain

ISBN:

0-691-23164-8

OCLC:

1269414584