title: Where is the citizen? Comparing civic spaces in long-term mental healthcare.
abstract: This paper explores the spatial properties of several notions of citizenship used in long-term mental healthcare. We claim that speaking of citizenship is a way of drawing borders: some people fall inside and some fall outside the civic domain. Informed by Science and Technology Studies, we use topological methods to see where borders are drawn by different notions of citizenship and analyse the notions of space that are co-produced with them. With this study we develop a new way of thinking about citizenship: citizenship as 'being-in-place'. Being in-place can emancipate clients and help them expand their social networks.
authors.affiliation: Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, Department of General Practice, Medical Ethics Section, P.O. Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. s.t.ootes@amc.uva.nl
authors.forename: S T C
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Ootes
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Pols
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Tonkens
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Willems
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009426:Netherlands; D036301:Qualitative Research; D062487:Social Marginalization