In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women's accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women's experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it b...

In this essay I explore the relationship between research reviews and the fields o f study to which they pertain. Using the curriculum field as an example, ! argue that such reviews are venues where fields of inquiry are constituted, reproduced, and over time changed. This construction occurs, I suggest, as the discursive practices or rules o f reasoning embedded in the language in which these ...

In social sciences literature, numerous attempts have been made to capture the political essence and features of Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ regime but few were aimed at analyzing specific public policy fields in the illiberal democracy. This paper analyses the cultural policy of the Orbán regime, focusing on the role of ideology. A qualitative case study based on document analysis looks at the legit...

The current paper sought to advance the literature on computer-mediated emotional support by outlining a candidate theory of online comforting communication. We present a model that explicates the discursive, cognitive, and affective processes that function to reduce emotional distress and help improve one s psychosocial well-being. We identify unique attributes of online social interaction, as...

Intersections between social constructionism and personal construct psychology (PCP) are increasingly been explored. Not only are these traditions compatible, but they may require each other. For when constructs are seen not as personal cognitions in any way causing or “behind” behaviour, but configurations of thought and feeling which occur in action, then the social context of that action ari...

AbstractThe present paper seeks to investigate how power relations work in Saedi’s An Eye for an Eye and how discursive formation of justice brings the conflicts of the play to resolution. Foucault believes that power and knowledge create each other reciprocally. This creation happens within a domain of relationships in which discursive statements are voiced alongside and against each other. Tr...

abstractthe present paper seeks to investigate how power relations work in saedi’s an eye for an eye and how discursive formation of justice brings the conflicts of the play to resolution. foucault believes that power and knowledge create each other reciprocally. this creation happens within a domain of relationships in which discursive statements are voiced alongside and against each other. tr...

Although critical community psychology (CCP) has embraced several discursive paradigms (e.g., discourse analysis, psychology, and Foucauldian analysis), there remains little CCP work that attempts to conceive of through a poststructuralist lens, lens extends beyond, but certainly does not ignore, the analysis data. In this study, we consider what are calling synthesis theory CCP. Such is one co...