Tension : mental distress and embodied inequality in the Western Himalayas / Nikita Kaur Simpson.
| Author/creator | Simpson, Nikita Kaur, 1994- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography Critical global health http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/7575dfa5-ec28-ba80-b6c1-a1ebaf9fad0a ^A1271850 |
| Contents | What Is Tension? -- Opara: Is Distress Relational? -- Kamzori: How Does the Distressed Body Hold Time? -- Ghar ki Tension: Why Is Care So Often the Source of Distress? -- Future Tension: What Is It About the Future That Generates Distress? -- Pagal: What Happens When Distress Becomes Deviant? -- Can Tension Travel? |
| Abstract | "Tension examines rapid development in the Western Himalayas and its effects on the minds and bodies of the local Gaddi people. Nikita Kuar Simpson tells the story of "tension" as it has come to settle in the homes and bodies of the Gaddi. Rather than seeking "tension" in the psychiatric hospital or healing shrine, this book dwells in spaces of intimate care and conflict and shows how "tension" runs along intersecting forms of caste, class, tribal and gendered difference. It argues that inequality is generated in the uneven absorption and expression of distress. It offers "tension" as an emic, relational theory of distress that speaks back to both individualizing psychiatric diagnostics and generalizing narratives of structural transformation. At once an account of politico-economic and environmental shifts in the last century, a cartography of care relations, and a multi-sensory exploration of the intimate experiences of atmosphere and body, Tension puts forth a theory of distress that speaks back to both Western psychiatric models of mental illness and dominant narratives of Global South development"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Simpson, Nikita Kaur, 1994- Tension Durham : Duke University Press, 2026 9781478062042 |
| LCCN | 2025033422 |
| ISBN | 9781478033295 |
| ISBN | 1478033290 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478029830 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478029838 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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