Placing precarity: access and belonging in the shifting landscape of UK mental health care

摘要: This paper engages with the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ through an ethnography the social and material aspects accessing mental health care in UK. I focus on moments access transition a voluntary sector organisation London: intercultural psychotherapy centre, serving range im/migrant communities. Whilst both ‘belonging’ ‘place’ are often invoked to imply stability, explore how contexts inclusion can paradoxically be implicated ongoing production precarity—of unstable, uncertain, vulnerable ways being. A sociomaterial analysis ethnographic visual data from two creative mapping interviews attends spatial centre its transitory place urban environment. It demonstrates these became entangled client experiences access: uncertainties waiting, ambivalence towards belonging particular group, questions around deservingness care. engendered embodied situated experience ‘precarious belonging’. therefore argue that precarity should ‘placed’, within concept belonging, ethnographically, constraints, impermanence, politics projects include excluded UK