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Working to feel better or feeling better to work? Discourse of wellbeing in austerity reality TV
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center on Disability Studies, 2018.
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Abstract
- By focusing on discourses within the ‘cultural economy’ of reality TV, the following considers the wider positioning of waged labor as essential for mental health during a period of austerity. The findings suggest that discourses of mental health and wellbeing construct figures of a ‘good’ welfare-recipient as one who achieves wellbeing through distancing themselves from the welfare state and progress toward waged work. Framed within the landscape of ‘psycho-politics’, wellbeing and unemployment are arguably entangled to legitimize current welfare policy, placing responsibility on individuals for economic and health security and dissolving concerns over austerity’s systemic impact.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15533697
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.core.ac.uk....5387baade83becb872012cb208e719e1