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Suvremeni neoliberalni diskurs mentalnog zdravlja: ekonomizacija mentalnog zdravlja i konstruiranost osobne patologije.

Authors :
Paska, Danijela
Source :
Sic: A Journal of Literature, Culture & Literary Translation; 2022, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p1-23, 23p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

This paper focuses on the discursive analysis of the neoliberal coinage of mental health, observing neoliberalism as a modern rational form of governmentality. Inspired by Michel Foucault's theory of discourse and governmentality (but also by others -- Nikolas Rose, Sara Ahmed), in this paper I analyse what meanings and knowledge about mental health are articulated in public policies in Croatia by neoliberal market demands and the logic of self-management. The main thesis of the paper addresses the primary purpose of neoliberalism in the process of economization -- the creation of a social reality in which all aspects of human life are reduced to economic problems, including human health itself. Through the analysis of public health projects and campaigns, the paper shows the connection between mental health policy and the constructed entrepreneurial self of citizens. Reading the critical categories of productivity, risk, resources, ability, and personal responsibility, in the paper I problematize how health has become a bioeconomy. Health thus becomes the mediation of the market and the neoliberal system in which the individual is seen as a consumer, who will either be a burden or contribute to the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
Croatian
ISSN :
18477755
Volume :
13
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Sic: A Journal of Literature, Culture & Literary Translation
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
161778168