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Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2024). Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice. In E. Gilberthorpe (Ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges (1-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003460954-8

This chapter uses the immersive experience of Open Dialogue, an innovative approach to mental healthcare, as the pretext for reflection on the stance of anthropologists in relation to our interlocutors, fieldwork as ethical practice and the personal... Read More about Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice.

India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse (2024)
Thesis
Venkat, V. India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This doctoral thesis examines the right to information movement in India emerging from a democratic process of contestation of state power. Combining ethnography with history, the thesis situates the demand for an information law within the context o... Read More about India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse.

Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities (2023)
Journal Article
Jadhav, S., Pathania, G. J., Thorat, A., Mosse, D., & Jain, S. (2023). Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities. Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 4(1), 03-23. https://doi.org/10.26812/caste.v4i1.470

Caste is a complex ontological construction. Despite several anti-caste movements and constitutional provisions, caste exists in the Indian psyche as part of everyday life. Even in the advent of globalization, caste continues to foster social and eco... Read More about Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities.

The Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Open Dialogue: Ethnographic Research Methods and Opportunities (2023)
Journal Article
Mosse, D., Baker, D., Carroll, M., Chase, L. E., Kloocke, R., Wickremasinghe, K., Cramer, B., Pratt-Boyden, K., & Wuerth, M. (2023). The Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Open Dialogue: Ethnographic Research Methods and Opportunities. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1111588. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1111588

When Open Dialogue diversifies internationally as an approach to mental healthcare, so too do the research methodologies used to describe, explain and evaluate this alternative to existing psychiatric services. This article considers the contribution... Read More about The Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Open Dialogue: Ethnographic Research Methods and Opportunities.

Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India (2023)
Thesis
Hadley, P. A. Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores processes of co-operative institution building in rural development in central India, with specific regard to farmer producer companies (FPCs), a form of ‘new generation’ co-operative-company hybrid, as well as the organic cotton... Read More about Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India.

Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England (2022)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S., Au-Yeung, S., Robertson, A., Cogger-Ward, H., Richards, G., Allison, C., Bradley, L., Kenny, R., O'Connor, R., Mosse, D., Rodgers, J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2022). Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 221(5), 683-691. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.21

Background: Autism and autistic traits are risk factors for suicidal behaviour. Aims: To explore the prevalence of autism (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in those who died by suicide, and identify risk factors for suicide in this group. Method: Stage 1:... Read More about Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England.

Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh (2022)
Thesis
Jamal, I. Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores young Bangladeshi new elite actors in development and how they conceptualise and practice new modalities of development. By working with a group of actors who are often overlooked when studying development, especially in the cont... Read More about Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh.

First-person accounts of the processes and planning involved in a suicide attempt on the railway (2021)
Journal Article
Marsh, I., Marzano, L., Mosse, D., & Mackenzie, J.-M. (2021). First-person accounts of the processes and planning involved in a suicide attempt on the railway. BJPsych Open, 7, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.173

Background: The processes and planning involved in choosing and attempting to die by a particular method of suicide are not well understood. Accounts from those who have thought about or attempted suicide using a specific method might allow us to bet... Read More about First-person accounts of the processes and planning involved in a suicide attempt on the railway.

NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India (2020)
Journal Article
Mosse, D., & Nagappan, S. B. (2021). NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India. Development and Change, 52(1), 134-167. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12614

Donor‐funded development NGOs are sometimes portrayed as co‐opting, privatizing or depoliticizing citizen action or social movements. This much is implied by the term ‘NGOization’. Alternatively, NGOs can be seen as bearers of rights‐based work incre... Read More about NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India.

Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2020). Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62(1), 4-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417519000392

Caste has always generated political and scholarly controversy but the forms that this takes today newly combine anti-caste activism with counter-claims about the irrelevance or non-existence of caste, or claims to castelessness. Such claims to caste... Read More about Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom.

Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan (2020)
Thesis
Khan, M. A. Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis explores the politics and poetics of road making in Pakistan. The material addresses two questions: why do states build roads? What happens to the people and places that roads pass through when roads finally appear? I conducted eleven mont... Read More about Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan.

The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy (2019)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2020). The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy. Modern Asian Studies, 54(4), 1225-1271. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000039

What place does the caste system have in modern India with its globally-integrating market economy? The most influential anthropological approaches to caste have tended to emphasize caste as India’s traditional religious and ritual order, or (treatin... Read More about The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy.

Autistic traits in adults who have attempted suicide (2019)
Journal Article
Richards, G., Kenny, R., Griffiths, S., Allison, C., Mosse, D., Holt, R., O'Connor, R., Cassidy, S., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2019). Autistic traits in adults who have attempted suicide. Molecular Autism, 10(26), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0274-4

Background: An emerging literature suggests that autistic adults are at increased risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts, making suicidal plans and attempts, and dying by suicide. However, few studies have investigated whether autistic traits are rel... Read More about Autistic traits in adults who have attempted suicide.

Can the Experience of Participatory Development Help Think Critically about ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in UK Healthcare? (2019)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2019). Can the Experience of Participatory Development Help Think Critically about ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in UK Healthcare?. Sociological Research Online, 24(3), 444-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418797718

The expansion of spaces for ‘patient and public involvement’ (PPI) in health systems in the UK is a relatively recent phenomenon, and yet ‘participation’ as a principle for planned interventions in international development is well established as a f... Read More about Can the Experience of Participatory Development Help Think Critically about ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in UK Healthcare?.

Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage (2018)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2018). Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage. World Development, 110, 422-436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.003

Inherited caste identity is an important determinant of life opportunity for a fifth of the world’s population, but is not given the same significance in global development policy debates as gender, race, age, religion or other identity characteristi... Read More about Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage.