Epistemicide: Dialogue with “Global Mental Health” Critic China Mills

Abstract

This chapter takes us onto the world stage, exploring, in particular, the North-South divide and the colonization, racism, and empire-building involved. Focal are a strong analysis of the colonialism at the core of the “Movement for Global Mental Health”, the value of pluralism, a reassuring glimpse into the integration of feminism in the survivor movement in India, and the prioritizing of local grassroots approaches to healing. Additionally, in an attempt to shed light on one of the growing tensions within the movement and to find a constructive way forward, China and Bonnie endeavor to wrap their minds around the thorny question of what is and what is not appropriation.