Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

Fullagar, Simone; O’Brien, Wendy; Pavlidis, Adele

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11626-2

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“…As Fullagar et al (2019) suggested, these conventional metaphors are representative of contemporary attitudes toward particular areas of reality, as they tend to reflect the culturally shared model of modern society and its normative values and our findings tend to concur. Depression as “going downwards” is likely to reflect both the embodied experience and the dominant cultural values held by young adults in this study; being correlated not only with illness and morbidity, but also aligned with normative social values of low status, moral deficiency, and lack of individual agency and power (Angus, 2018; McMullen, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Analysis and Interpretation of Metaphors: Exploring Young Adults’ Subjective Experiences With Depression

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The aim of this study was to provide a cross-cultural exploration of how young adults with depression use metaphors to describe their illness experiences. Data were collected in semi-structured interviews, designed to capture rich and detailed descriptions of participants’ firsthand narrative experiences of depression and how they make sense of depression. Thirty-three participant interview data were analyzed, using a combination of deductive and inductive approaches. The analysis resulted in extracting five major themes with sub-themes, which detail the diversity and vividness of metaphorical expressions embedded in participants’ accounts and produce insights and a richer picture of the depression experience. Metaphors play a pivotal role in providing a rich resource that young adults rely on, to construct meaningful accounts about their illness. This highlights the importance of a metaphor-enriched perspective in research as well as in clinical practice, particularly in a multicultural health care setting.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Analysis and Interpretation of Metaphors: Exploring Young Adults’ Subjective Experiences With Depression

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“…In this study we focused on the analysis of text in official online sources; however, depression is shaped through a complex meaning-making assemblage involving many entangled forces including bodies, affects, objects, places, relations and practices (Fullagar et al, 2019). Narratives and discourses around depression therefore have been studied utilizing a wide range of qualitative methods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…ABS, 2018). Feminist writers have questioned whether higher rates of depression among women really reflect higher rates of biological dysfunction or psychological deficit in women (Ussher, 2010); or whether women’s feelings of distress might more usefully be understood as ‘public feelings’ entangled with the conditions of women’s lives (Fullagar et al, 2019). Depression is theorized as the result of complex interactions between multiple forces including discourses, embodied experiences, power imbalances and institutional practices (Flore et al, 2021).…”

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‘It’s more than sadness’: The Discursive Construction of Depression on Australian Depression Websites

Horwood

Augoustinos

2022

Qual Health Res

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Depression has been the subject of increased awareness and concern in Australia, but there has been little research into how depression is constructed on mental health websites, which have become a major resource for mental health information among the general public. In this study, critical discursive psychology was employed to analyse the informational content of eight major Australian mental health websites concerning depression. Four interpretative repertoires were identified – a biomedical, a self-optimization, a normal-natural and a societal-structural repertoire. The biomedical and self-optimization repertoires were the most prevalent, constructing depression as an illness within an individual occurring as a result of a biological or psychological deficit. Whilst previous studies have identified the predominance of a biomedical repertoire of depression on official websites, this study highlights the growing prominence of a self-optimization repertoire alongside the biomedical. Whilst it appeared that the aim of the websites was to challenge stigma and encourage help-seeking, it is argued that this way of understanding depression may have counter-productive effects in that the problem is located within the individual rather than with society, and individuals may be positioned as responsible for managing their own mental health, under the guidance of experts. The implications of understanding depression in this way, and not in alternative ways, are discussed.

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“…We need different ways of conceptualising leisure beyond individualised models of 'human agency', to enable a deeper grasp of the embodied, affective relations that produce leisure phenomena as an assemblage of gendered forces (Braidotti, 2013;Fullagar et al, 2019). Feminist new materialism offers a relational approach to leisure that is attuned to ambivalence and the multiplicity of meaning; the gendered experience of despair and trauma enacted in highly normalised ways, alongside the "performative tactic[s] of counter-feelings…countermanifestation" (Bargetz, 2019, p. 193).…”

Section: Gendered Leisure In Materialising Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism

Fullagar¹,

Pavlidis²

2022

Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus

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The disruptive biocultural force of the coronavirus highlights the value of more-than-human perspectives for examining the gendered effects and affects on our everyday lives and leisure practices. Pursuing this line of thought our article draws upon the insights of feminist new materialism as intellectual resource for considering what the coronavirus "does" as a gendered phenomenon. We turn to this body of feminist scholarship as it enables us to attune to what is happening, what remains unspoken and to pay attention to "the little things" that may be lost in a big crisis. Writing through the complexity of embodied affects (fear, loss, hope), we focus on the challenge to humanist notions of "agency" posed by these shifting timespace relations of home confinement, restricted movement and altered work-leisure routines. We explore the tensions arising from "home" as an historical site of gendered inequality and a new site of enhanced capacity.

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Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

Cited by 35 publications

References 46 publications

Analysis and Interpretation of Metaphors: Exploring Young Adults’ Subjective Experiences With Depression

Analysis and Interpretation of Metaphors: Exploring Young Adults’ Subjective Experiences With Depression

‘It’s more than sadness’: The Discursive Construction of Depression on Australian Depression Websites

Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism

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