Introduction / Peter Beresford -- Part 1: Mad Studies and political organising of people with psychiatric experience -- The international foundations of Mad Studies: Knowledge generated in collective action / Jasna Russo -- Reflections on power, knowledge and change / Mary O'Hagan -- Shifting identities as reflective personal responses to political changes / Bhargavi V Davar -- A crazy, warrior and "respondona" Peruvian: All personal transformation is social and political / Brenda Del Rocio Valdivia Quiroz -- Reflections on survivor knowledge and Mad Studies / Irit Shimrat -- Speaking for ourselves: An early UK survivor activist's account / Peter Campbell -- Fostering community responsibility: Perspectives from the Pan African Network of people with psychosocial disabilities / Daniel Mwesigwa Iga -- Using survivor knowledge to influence public policy in the United States / Darby Penney -- The social movement of people with psychosocial disabilities in Japan: Strategies for taking the struggle to academia / Naoyuki Kirihara -- Re-writing the master narrative: A prerequisite for mad liberation / Wilda L. White -- Part 2: Situating Mad Studies -- A genealogy of the concept of "Mad Studies" / Richard A. Ingram -- How is Mad Studies different from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry? / Geoffrey Reaume -- Mad Studies and disability studies / Hannah Morgan -- Weaponizing absent knowledges: Countering the violence of mental health law / Fleur Beaupert, Liz Brosnan -- Part 3: Mad Studies and knowledge equality -- The subjects of oblivion: Subalterity, sanism, and racial erasure / Ameil Joseph -- Institutional ceremonies? The (im)possibilities of transformative co-production in mental health / Sarah Carr -- "Are you experienced?" The use of experiential knowledge in mental health and its contribution to Mad Studies / Danny Taggart -- De-pathologising motherhood / Angela Sweeney, Billie Lever Taylor -- The professional regulation of madness in nursing and social work / Jennifer Poole, Chris Chapman, Sonia Meerai, Joanne Azevedo, Abir Gebara, Nargis Hussein, Rebecca Ballen -- The (global) rise of anti-stigma campaigns / Jana-Maria Fey, China Mills -- Part 4: Doing Mad Studies -- Why we must talk about de-medicalization / Ma̕ra Isabel Can̤tn -- Imagining non-carceral futures with(in) Mad Studies / Pan Karanikolas -- Madness in the time of war: Post-war reflections on practice and research beyond the borders of psychiatry and development / Reima Ana Maglajlic -- The architecture of my madness / Caroline Yeo -- Re-conceptualising suicidality: Towards collective intersubjective responses / David Webb -- De-coupling and re-coupling violence and madness / Andrea Daley, Trish Van Katwyk -- Upcycling recovery: Potential alliances of recovery, inequality and Mad Studies / Lynn Tang -- Bodies, boundaries, b/orders: A recent critical history of differentialism and structural adjustment / Essya M. Nabbali -- Spirituality, psychiatry, and Mad Studies / Lauren J. Tenney -- Part 5: Inquiring into the future for Mad Studies : Taking Mad Studies back out into the community / David Reville -- Interrogating Mad Studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide / Victoria Armstrong and Brenda LeFraṅois -- Madness, decolonisation and mental health activism in Africa / Femi Eromosele -- Navigating voices, politics, positions amidst peers: Resonances and dissonances in India / Prateeksha Sharma -- 'Madness' as a term of division, or rejection / Colin King -- Afterword: The ethics of making knowledge together / Jasna Russo -- Postscript: Mad Studies in a maddening world / Peter Beresford.