Investigación en colaboración en el campo de la salud mental desde una perspectiva de derechos

ACOSTA, CECILIA; POZZO, MARÍA ISABEL; HERAS, ANA INÉS

EMPIRIA

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España

Año: 2020 vol. 49

1139-5737

We present a discussion of historical-conceptual frameworks of collaborative knowledge production that have operated as antecedents of the study presented from the co-research approach. More precisely, the background review advances in the positions that lead to the knowledge-power binomial throughout recent history, recovering the contributions of thinkers who have taken political-subjective subalternity as axes in different ways. From this framework, we focus on research with subjects who live a constant struggle to access their political, social and vital rights. Then, we give an account of the design developed in a collaborative study with self-managed work groups in mental health in Argentina. We retrieve from this study the systematization of learning related to self-management in the direction of the micropolitical constitution of mental health as a right, offering a description of the methodological program ordered in phases of collaborative knowledge generation. Likewise, we then detail the powers arising from the use of co-research in mental health, as conceptual, methodological and epistemological positioning in three specific aspects: the exercise of otherness from the constructions and evaluations in relation to the perceived other, the contributions of the multi-sited ethnography, and the links between molecular-molar dynamics and ethnographic approach to direct research actions and decisions but also health measures. As a closing, we point out the substantial and distinctive contributions of this methodology that moves away from the accumulation of knowledge as it conceives knowledge rather as a possibility of transformation of life forms. In this sense, we place in first term, the multi-referentiality to generate knowledge; secondly, the capillarity to the diversity of co-created narratives, in terms of democratization of voices and the possibility that the knowledge generated be placed on a plane of social-political meaning in reference to access to rights.