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This chapter begins with describing the personal and professional positionalities of the authors that have been working with people that are experiencing uneven development, disasters, and conflicts over the past 30 years. Further, we establish an epistemic disobedience in this book by challenging the mainstream epistemology related to mental health and wellbeing. These explanations go on to ground the key competing concepts and definitions of mental health, wellbeing, conflicts, disasters, uneven development, Global Mental Health (GMH), and Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). The cases of Malawi and Sri Lanka are introduced within their past and present contexts. In each case, we attempt to point out the dominance of biomedical model of mental health and how the structures have been impacted.

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Introduction

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    2025年

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  • Janaka Jayawickrama,
  • Jerome Wright

摘要

This chapter begins with describing the personal and professional positionalities of the authors that have been working with people that are experiencing uneven development, disasters, and conflicts over the past 30 years. Further, we establish an epistemic disobedience in this book by challenging the mainstream epistemology related to mental health and wellbeing. These explanations go on to ground the key competing concepts and definitions of mental health, wellbeing, conflicts, disasters, uneven development, Global Mental Health (GMH), and Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). The cases of Malawi and Sri Lanka are introduced within their past and present contexts. In each case, we attempt to point out the dominance of biomedical model of mental health and how the structures have been impacted.