Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze

Durnová, Anna

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“…Science-distrusting discourses are often described through their appeals to emotions and community building, while science-trusting discourses are portrayed as factual, thus rational. Still, a constructivist perspective on public knowledge enables us to observe parallel (though not identical) work of fact-making and emotion and identity work in both worldviews ( Fischer, 2019 ; Fischer, 2020 ; Durnová, 2018 , Durnová, 2019 ).…”

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The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Rughiniș

Flaherty

2022

Front. Sociol.

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This article proposes a conceptual framework to study the social bifurcation of reality in polarized science-trusting and science-distrusting lay worldviews, by analyzing and integrating five concepts: science work, number work, emotion work, time work, and boundary work. Despite the epistemological asymmetry between accounts relying on mainstream science and science-distrusting or denialist ones, there are symmetrical social processes contributing to the construction of lay discourses. Through conceptual analysis, we synthesize an alternative to the deficit model of contrarian discourses, replacing the model of social actors as “defective scientists” with a focus on their culturally competent agency. The proposed framework is useful for observing the parallel construction of polarized realities in interaction and their ongoing articulation through hinge objects, such as vaccines, seatbelts, guns, or sanitary masks in the Covid-19 context. We illustrate the framework through a comparative approach, presenting arguments and memes from contemporary online media in two controversies: namely, vaccine-trusting versus vaccine-distrusting views and Covid-convinced versus Covid-suspicious discourses.

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The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Rughiniș

Flaherty

2022

Front. Sociol.

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“…Similarly, Durnová (2013) argues that referring to emotions is not merely a recognition of psychosocial well-being but also a tool for governing the authoritative knowledge in a policy field (Durnová, 2013: 498). These works are part of the scholarship highlighting how emotions are subjected to public scrutiny with competing claims on their meaning (Paterson and Larios, 2020;Durnová, 2018b). In policy debates on birth care, such public scrutiny of emotions is closely linked to references to gender, used as discursive means to articulate professional hierarchies (Cavaghan, 2017).…”

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Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Durnová

Formánková

Hejzlarová

2021

Critical Social Policy

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While the focus on emotions has been associated with the rise of psychosocial welfare and has promised a gateway to accommodate individually diversified needs of citizens in policies, the article shows that the role of emotions needs to be better understood. Highlighting emotions can serve both to empower and to patronize those who experience them. Referring to emotions can thus strengthen hierarchies and downplay individual requests to initiate a change. The analysis of professional discourses on birth care in Czechia shows the value of contextualising emotions. While midwifery discourses apply the emotional context of birth to support women in their specific birth choices, medical discourses use the emotional context to patronize them and to limit their requirements. As a result, policy demands are seen as illegitimate when coming from midwives, who want to see women’s choices more respected in care. We analyse this dynamic through intimacy. As a conceptual framework used in sociology of care, ‘intimacy’ ties individual emotional experiences to collective discourses on care, the body and related feelings. Viewing professional discourses on birth care through intimacy reveals the role of emotions in the collective recognition of the personal struggle for the right to give birth in conditions that respect bodily and emotional integrity, which informs how we think of the role of emotions in policies in general.

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“…It was translated to English in 1970 [11] and ranks number 66 in Le Monde's 100 Books of 20 th Century [12], continuing to hold interest for scholars in psychology, in education and in health with respect to their research. Recent articles based on this book have demonstrated various foci in these areas: understanding emotions in policy studies [13], critical and theoretical reflection on the current mathematics educational objectives for Indigenous students in Australia [14], and the role of social media and the internet in providing credible, reliable and objective sources of sexual health information for young people [15].…”

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A Framework for European Thought on Psychology, Education and Health Based on Foucault’s The Order of Things

Nash¹

2022

Preprint

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In European thought, the relationship among the fields of psychology, education, and health is both complex and obscured. Foucault’s acclaimed work, The Order of Things, offers a framework to evaluate their interconnection by identifying three distinct periods of European thought since the 16th century with respect to the ordering of phenomena—Renaissance, Classical and Modern. Theoretically dense and often difficult to decipher, the book’s categorization of language, value and being has been understandably underused, yet it provides deep insights into what have come to be known as psychology, education and health and remains invaluable in understanding the origin, limits and consequences of these fields. How Foucault’s analysis can be interpreted concerning the development of these areas as to each of the three periods of European thought is investigated. An approach based on narrative research appraises the analysis offered in the book. The results, presented for the first time in table form, compare these three periods, demonstrating a continuing practical value to Foucault’s insights. With the aid of the framework revealed by these tables, the boundaries and relationship of psychology, education and health become clear and their limitations—plus potential solutions to them—can be identified to mitigate anticipated negative consequences.

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Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze

Cited by 22 publications

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The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

A Framework for European Thought on Psychology, Education and Health Based on Foucault’s The Order of Things

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