Becoming response-able to the entwined crises of 'domestic violence' and 'mental health' : an experience of joy with Gandhi Nivas : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand
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2022
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This project commits to becoming response-able (Haraway, 2016) through an increase in understanding experienced as joy (Braidotti, 2019a) when responding to the entwined crises of ‘mental health’ and ‘domestic violence’. Beginning with a memory of being un-able to respond ethically when located within system-responses that privilege a particular form of expertise, the project locates the privileged form of expertise as situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988) that offers a limited and partial perspective and hence the need to think with an-other. Moving to connect with an-other (the creative community collaboration of Gandhi Nivas responding ethically to the problem of domestic violence) and understanding thinking as a relational activity (Braidotti, 2019a) enables a different voice of expertise privileging care to be heard in the recognition of the multiplicity of difference and an other-wise telling of our beginning memory. Thinking with the multiplicity of difference and the experience of those who have not gained powers of discursive representation also enables an increase in understanding of the social power relations that resist acknowledging the partiality and connections made possible by situated knowledges. The social power relations instead code a multiplicity of differences through a binary and the knotted relationships of patriarchy, colonisation, imperialism and advanced cognitive capitalism. This project argues for the fundamental necessity of recognising caring expertise and other-wise knowledges situated elsewhere to become response-able as communities for the entwined crises of ‘domestic violence’ and ‘mental health’.