Margaret Wetherell’s research while affiliated with University of Auckland and other places

... Books such as "1984" by George Orwell or "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley led to critical reflections on government power and control, surveillance and freedom and dialogues of power relations and organizational structure. These works are creative and prominent examples, which enabled to change or at least question some of the complex paradigms that influenced society and encouraged public participation (Potter et al., 2023). However, well known literary works have been used as the means to call for social change and to promote the activity, for instance. ...

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: How to Employ Literary Works as a Source for Branding and Marketing?

... An alternative approach is to explicitly ground substantive principles for priority-setting on public views, for example, by conducting studies exploring societal values. [17][18][19][20][21][22] Doing so might i The opportunity cost associated with an intervention's adoption refers to the benefits foregone when a choice is made to employ resources on adopting that intervention rather than for some other purpose within the health system. enhance a priority-setter's perceived legitimacy and make its decisions less vulnerable to challenge. ...

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The ethical canary: narrow reflective equilibrium as a source of moral justification in healthcare priority-setting

... 7 Similarly, Salmenniemi and Kemppainen (2020) find in their research on therapeutic cultures that it motivated women to form therapeutic groups in which they debated gender inequality and took collective action. Martinussen and Wetherell (2022) investigate how neoliberal technologies of the self are practiced in everyday life through therapy talk between female friends and that there is a danger that these could morph into a form of group surveillance. However, they also point to the potential that these groups can create solidarity between women in which they practice a situated resilience to deal with the specific problems they face in their local context. ...

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Globalising positivity discourses and women

... In VCE English, open-ended modes of literary exploration or emotional experience are often deemed too 'woolly' (McKnight 2016) and creative writing that is process driven too 'airy fairy' (Frawley 2014) and reading and writing are refigured into units of work, with standardised outcomes and rigid assessments. Within this system, certain civilised (Ahmed 2004(Ahmed -2014 or entrepreneurial (Calder-Dawe et al. 2021) feelings and dispositions are welcomed and promoted. Confidence, resilience (Dadvand, Cahill, and Zembylas 2022) and empathy (Pedwell 2016) are fostered because they have utility and market value (O'Grady 2020). ...

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‘Empathy is a Better Emotion’: The Trouble with Empathy in High Stakes English Classrooms

... Hall focuses on de-centring and continuity, as well as on the ongoing nature of the processes of subject construction, and has paved the way for recent scholarship on identity. Many of these scholars, writing in the age of globalization and from within multicultural societies, highlight Hall's definitions as their starting point (Woodward, 2000;Weedon, 2004), or as an evident influence in their discussions of theories of self (Weinreich, 2003;Wetherell, 2009Wetherell, , 2010Van Meijl, 2010). ...

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Melodies from the Past, Melodies from the Present: Music and Identity in the Cuban Diaspora

... Repertoires refer to ideals that are based on coherent ways of speaking of some subject, while different repertoires build their own image of it. People may use multiple and contrasting repertoires, even within the same episodes of talk (Van Der Merwe & Wetherell, 2020). ...

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Ideals of Joint Decision Making in Clubhouse Communities

... We conceptualize these efforts as intercultural extrinsic emotion regulation that aims to regulate the emotions of others in a communal setting to make them culturally appropriate and effective in a new cultural environment and structural power hierarchies. The affective-discursive framework (McConville et al., 2020;Wetherell, 2012Wetherell, , 2013Wetherell, , 2014 shapes our understanding of emotions and emotion regulation as habituated practices grounded in meaning-making that are implicated in social positioning and reproduction of social (dis)advantage. We examine emotional practices to gain a greater insight into migrants' subjections, resistances and negotiations within new cultural formations and power regimes. ...

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“May death stay away from us!” Regulating desperation and desire by Eritreans with asylum status

... As the above quote highlights, friendships have historically (Marcus, 2007), and continue to be integral for girls' coming of age (Hentges, 2005, p.193), positioned as a space separate from heterosexual relationships, a safe territory for discussion about romance and sexuality (Shulman and Connolly, 2013) and a "refuge, time off and an escape" from neo-liberal life (Martinussen, Wetherell, and Braun, 2020). However, Sarah Hentges (2005) argues that despite platonic relationships being integral to the female adolescent experience, they are "underutilized in many girls' films", with friendship being "often out of convenience" (p.193). ...

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Girls on Film: Subverting Ideal Femininities

... Affective-discursive practice is also a powerful framework for qualitative psychology because it opens space to explore the so-called middle ranges of agency (Martinussen & Wetherell, 2019). Through its emphasis on embodied practice, Wetherell's work offers a toolkit for a contextualized and empirically based investigation of social actors as "both agentic and constituted through social processes" (Wetherell et al., 2019, p. 6). ...

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Empowered and Vulnerable? Analyzing Affective–Discursive Practices and Dilemmas in Young People’s Resistance to Sexual Harassment

... It becomes challenging to uphold authenticity while occupying a professional identity, meaning stories of struggle from childhood are less speakable. The part of herself that did not want to keep "living with a mask on", was restricted by social and institutional narrative resources that imply that particularly for women, being successful professionally does not allow space for personal struggle (Chowdhury et al., 2019). Through her transitions story, Sonia has navigated her transition to young womanhood and "success", but the cost of doing self-driven "success" work is high. ...

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A dialogical narrative approach to transitions and change in young women's lives after domestic abuse in childhood: considerations for counselling and psychotherapy