Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat?

Chauhan, Apurv; Foster, Juliet

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“…Combined with the stigma associated with mental illness, mental illness is represented as a threat and a sign of deviance and misfit. Research with the theory of social representations has argued the social objects that are imbued with ideas of deviance and threat tend to be distanced from the Self and relegated to the realm of the Other (Chauhan and Foster, ). In a similar vein, it can be argued on the basis of our findings that representations of Chinese middle age men indicate an Othering of mental health problems.…”

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“…Representations are not static; they are dynamic conceptual frameworks that assimilate new knowledge within the existing conceptual carousel (Bauer & Gaskell, ). Social representations are not mere reproductions of objective facts but involve interpretations and representations that are shaped by a group's history and interests, allowing the inquiry to be sensitive to the social context and indigenous belief systems (Chauhan & Foster, ). The field of mental health has been a particularly germane area of research with SRT.…”

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Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men

Lu¹,

Chauhan²,

Campbell³

2015

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Little is understood by the ideas that urban Chinese population holds about mental health. Insufficient research and recognition of mental illnesses, and a dearth of social resources for mental health support and promotion limit understandings of how daily life stresses restrict the quality of life of China's urban population. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 15 middle‐age urban men, we map out men's accounts of how they battle to cope with the demands of everyday social, political, and familial pressures. The study reveals that the representations of mental health are shaped by notions of control over emotions, adherence to Confucian philosophy, familial obligations, and the need to demonstrate social obedience and conformity. Data also suggest that the participants represent stable family support along with healthy social interactions as important enabling factors of positive mental health, whereas pressures of modernity are regarded as significant disruptive factors in mental health. The theory of social representations guides the process as well as analytic interpretations of this research. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men

Lu¹,

Chauhan²,

Campbell³

2015

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…The current discourse on poverty is one of 'Saints and Scroungers'. The emergence of 'poverty porn' as popular entertainment presents poverty as 'a problem of the other' (Chauhan and Foster, 2014). At the same time, there is little investigative coverage of poverty in news stories which 'use poverty to lend emphasis or to sensationalise and do little to further an understanding of poverty in the UK ' (McKendrick et al, 2008: 22).…”

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Making it count: Learning from a knowledge exchange with voluntary sector workers and software providers, and data from auto/biographical reflection as an activist academic

Mann

2019

Methodological Innovations

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This article offers an analysis of methodological disputes between various stakeholders in welfare provision. It addresses debates of validity, efficiency and purpose. It gathers data from two sources: a knowledge exchange event which brought together voluntary sector workers, outcome software providers and academics, and auto/biographical data from my long-term participation in a grass-roots community project seeking to tackle street homelessness and food poverty in the London Borough of Newham. It pays particular attention to the tensions inherent in measuring impact and presenting ‘softer’ outcomes. It highlights the innovative approaches adopted by those working in the third sector as they seek to comply with an often overwhelming and increasingly complex set of methodological demands from funders. This article includes a discussion of the positioning of researchers seeking to offer ‘accountable knowledge’ and the types of knowledge which arise in pursuing an approach best described as ‘theorised subjectivity’. I consider the tensions inherent in my own attempt to navigate towards being a ‘partial inbetweener’ or at least a ‘trusted outsider’ to homeless people within the project I volunteer with. To this end, discussions of the use of auto/biographical data, drawn from working as a community organiser, are included.

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“…Essentialisation is a representational tool that establishes social categories, such as race and culture, as discrete and impermeable (Wagner, Holtz & Kashima, 2009), so that intergroup differences are consequently understood as incompatible (Chryssochoou & Lyons, 2011). Several social representations studies have highlighted forms of othering through representational processes: for example, on race (Augoustinos & Riggs, 2007;Howarth et al, 2013), immigration (Deaux & Wiley, 2007) and poverty (Chauhan & Foster, 2013). Such representations are often hegemonic (Moscovici, 1988;Howarth, 2011) or belief-based (Marková, 2003).…”

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‘Changing the context’: Tackling discrimination at school and in society

Howarth

Andreouli

2015

International Journal of Educational Development

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Abstract:In this paper we propose a social psychological framework for studying the role of schools in promoting positive intercultural relations. We draw on data from schools in England where addressing issues of cultural diversity is a key aim of educational practice. We focus specifically on the role of social context in educational activities that tackle discrimination. We consider the socio-political context, local community context, and immediate school context from a social representations theory perspective. Using data from interviews with staff and focus groups with students in schools from three very different localities, we show that the socio-political context may limit schools' ability to promote positive intercultural relations but also that it is possible for schools to promote broader change from the bottom-up, acting as agents of change at a societal level, i.e. in terms of changing the local and broader societal contexts in which they are located.

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Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat?

Abstract: Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers

Cited by 59 publications

References 67 publications

Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men

Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men

Making it count: Learning from a knowledge exchange with voluntary sector workers and software providers, and data from auto/biographical reflection as an activist academic

‘Changing the context’: Tackling discrimination at school and in society

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