Knowledge and policy; Sociology of organisations; Action Network Theory; Mental health policies
Abstract :
[en] This chapter analyses the production of knowledge in mental health care networks during a policy process that took place in Belgium between 2007 and 2010.By drawing on a case study of the horizontal pilot ‘Adults: General Psychiatry’ (AGP) – the discussion of different local pilots in adult general psychiatry – this chapter sets out to investigate empirically: how practitioners embodied knowledge of the new practices; how they came to enact that knowledge in the course of cross-project discussions; and how they coped with its inscription in a proposal for structural reform. At the same time, by also drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
and the sociology of translation (Callon, 1999; Latour, 2007; Freeman, 2009), the discussion shows how ANT and the phenomenology of embodied, inscribed and enacted knowledge complement each another.
Research Center/Unit :
Centre de Recherche et d'Interventions Sociologiques (CRIS)
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences Social work & social policy
Author, co-author :
Thunus, Sophie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie des ress. hum. et des systèmes institutionnels
Cerfontaine, Gaëtan ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie des ress. hum. et des systèmes institutionnels
Schoenaers, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie des ress. hum. et des systèmes institutionnels
Language :
English
Title :
Knowledge work: organising mental health care networks in Belgium
Alternative titles :
[fr] Un travail de connaissance: préparer l'implémentation des réseaux de soins de santé mentale en Belgique
