Mental Health, Isolation and Lockdowns
Brian Davey reflects from his past experience about the impact that self isolation is likely to have on the mental health of many people.
About
Brian Davey
Brian Davey graduated from the Nottingham University Department of Economics and, aside from a brief spell working in eastern Germany showing how to do community development work, has spent most of his life working in the community and voluntary sector in Nottingham particularly in health promotion, mental health and environmental fields. He helped form Ecoworks, a community garden and environmental project for people with mental health problems. He is a member of Feasta Climate Working Group and former co-ordinator of the Cap and Share Campaign. He is editor of the Feasta book Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society, and the author of Credo: Economic Beliefs in a World in Crisis.
Brian Davey has written 102 articles so far, you can find them below.
Coronavirus, degrowth and self isolation
"What this crisis is trying to teach us are frightening truths about the ecological consequences of land use changes that have emerged as threats to our health," writes Brian Davey.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – review (part two: social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits)
"Shoshana Zuboff has written a huge book packed full of detail and insight," writes Brian Davey. "Nevertheless it is an incomplete picture because it lacks a description of the bio-physical dimensions of surveillance capitalism and how these additional dimensions are intertwined with the limits to economic growth."
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff: review (part one)
Brian Davey writes that Zuboff's book makes the internet of things seem "like living in an automated psychiatric ward in which it is not the psychiatric staff who know what is best for you but a variety of algorithms of ideal behaviour".
“Smart” cities, big data, “green growth” and 5G
"Unusually in history – the wealthy and most privileged will at first tend to be at most risk", writes Brian Davey.
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
"Anyone looking for an excellent description of the damaging effects of austerity will find it in this book. Anyone looking for an analysis of the ecological crisis and what to do about may be disappointed," writes Brian Davey.
