“Approaching Abjection,” from  Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Kristeva, Julia

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“…This was often situated within broader taboos and dynamics of abjection in relation to bodily disintegration and, ultimately, death (cf. Kristeva ). Participants recounted instances of friends recoiling in relation to their diagnosis or prognosis (or to the cancer itself), avoiding discussing the topic or avoiding them , often resulting in the loss of previously important friendships.…”

Section: Survival‐in‐relationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The collective/affective practice of cancer survivorship

Broom

Kenny

Kirby

et al. 2018

British Journal of Sociology

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Whether within an atmosphere of hope, or amidst relations of fear, the emotions of cancer are unavoidably collectively produced. Yet persistent individualistic paradigms continue to obscure how the emotions of cancer operate relationally -between bodies, subjects, discourses, and practices -and are intertwined with circulating beliefs, cultural desires, and various forms of normativity. Drawing on interviews with 80 people living with cancer in Australia, this paper illustrates why recognition of the collective enterprise of survivorship -and the collective production of emotion, more generally -is important in light of persistent, culturally dominant conceptions of the individual patient as the primary 'afflicted', 'feeling', and 'treated' subject. Building on previous work on affective relations and moral framings, we posit that the collective affects of survivorship inflect what people living with cancer can, and should, feel. We highlight how such things as hope, resignation, optimism, and dread are 'products' of the collective affects of cancer, with implications for how survivorship is lived, felt, and done.

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Section: Survival‐in‐relationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The collective/affective practice of cancer survivorship

Broom

Kenny

Kirby

et al. 2018

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what treatens [sic] iton the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger. (Kristeva, 1982, p. 9) Building on Mary Douglas' (1966) writings on dirt and purifying rituals, Kristeva argues that the female body, the mother and bodily fluids are abject, threatening the masculine order through disorder (Kristeva, 1982; see also Höpfl, 2000). For Kristeva, the abject is neutralized through religion and rituals of purification, which at the same time give power to the abject.…”

Section: Abjection: Disruption and Leakagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing Girlhood: Abject Labour in Magazine Offices

Hunter¹,

Kivinen²

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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Girls' magazines act as important texts through which meanings of childhood, girlhood and womanhood are mediated and constructed. However, previous research has focused on either the conditions of work practices or cultural production of the magazine as a product. Separately in each context women or girls have been described as abject. The paper will argue that employees working on girls' magazines experienced a simultaneous double abjection: in the gendered working practices and as an outcome of the construction of girlhood they produced. Two studies of all female teams producing teenage and pre‐teen magazines were used, including interviews and observations. Our approach engaged with the difficulty of examining abjectivity in working practices, as present but marginalized, silenced and othered. As a result of scrutinizing the gendered embodiment in these studies, the findings suggest there is a relation between the working practices and gendered cultural production, forming a process of abjection. This process was threefold: a marginalization of a particular gendered embodiment, the cracks or leaks where abjectivity became apparent and the silencing of those leaks. This study will be of value to scholars interested in gendered embodiment in workplaces, abjectivity and cultural production, noting the interrelation between these areas.

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“…Paradoxically all this 'policy of language' is reminiscent of Orwell's 'talking in Newspeak'an expression used by the author in the novel 1984reversing all the good polite proposals in their opposite. The risk we are taking with this 'sacralised' respect for 'cultures,' no matter their practices, is a facade that hides the obscene xenophobia, what Kristeva (1982) names 'abjection.' The paradox of the fear of the Other's reaction, the evil conscience of colonialism, pushes the right-thinking bourgeoisie to be polite about every actual 'ritual' or 'tribal' violation.…”

Section: Epistemologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Asylum Seekers and Refugees: An Ethno‐Clinical Approach

Barbetta

Finco

Rossi³

2018

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Ethno-clinics' is an impossible word. Defining 'ethno-clinics' is like placing a label on a name, concealing the polysemy of the term. We choose such a word because it is rarely used as a way of doing clinical work in psychotherapy (Dubosc, 2016;Salmi, 2004) but we have chosen not to place a 'registered trademark' on it, as it usually happens in the 'free market of ideas. ' The word 'ethno-clinics' is a composition of two words that we will analyse in this essay. We will stress the difference between refugee and asylum seeker due to the generic use by the media of the word 'refugee', which is convenient in hiding the fact that the vast majority of immigrants to Europe, in present times, are just asylum seekers; precisely, since Europe does not recognise the human rights of the Other and rejects immigrants, not granting asylum and pushing those people into the backdoor. Nevertheless, ethno-clinical work does not practice antagonism; it deals with the particular small differences that subvert the complete representation of identity. In Bateson's (1972) terms, a difference that makes a difference. The practice we describe is exercised in the context of a Cooperative Organisation, named Ruah, in Bergamo, Italy.

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“Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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The collective/affective practice of cancer survivorship

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Constructing Girlhood: Abject Labour in Magazine Offices

Asylum Seekers and Refugees: An Ethno‐Clinical Approach

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