Work in Progress
Unaccountable: Lapses of Liberalism in California’s Mental Health Courts (book manuscript)
‘Out of Bounds: Theorising Care’s Binds Beyond Concept’ (book chapter, under review)
‘At Wit’s End: The Ethics of Losing Your Mind in San Francisco’s Public Mental Health Clinics’ (essay, under review)
‘The Power of None: Loss, Law, Monarchy’ (essay)
Essays & Reviews
2018. Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an American Mental Health Court. Cultural Anthropology 33(1): 85-108.
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2018. Patience. Correspondences — Fieldsights: Society for Cultural Anthropology.
Part of the edited collection, ‘Justice.’ See more below for more information on Jess’s editorial collaborations.
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2017. Trapped: The Limits of Care in California’s Mental Health Courts. Social Justice 44(1): 121-141.
Part of the special issue, ‘Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security,’ edited by Robert Werth.
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2014. Book Review: Paul Brodwin’s Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Frontline of Community Psychiatry. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 68: 160-162.
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Editorial Work
In addition to writing her own pieces, Jess likes working with other people on their manuscripts — especially when such editorial work contributes to open access projects. To that end, Jess has pursued opportunities to work in various editorial capacities. A few years ago, Jess guest edited a special collection on justice for the Society for Cultural Anthropology (click here for open access to Jess’s Introduction and contributions by Jess, Jessica R. Greenberg, Karen Faulk, and Naisargi N. Dave). And for the past several years, Jess has served as a Member of the Editorial Collective, with a few stints as Collective Coordinator (2020-2021; 2023 - present), for Medicine Anthropology Theory.