Working to Feel Better or Feeling Better to Work? Discourses of Wellbeing in Austerity Reality TV
| dc.contributor.author | Sandle, Rowan Voirrey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Day, Katy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Muskett, Tom | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-08T23:55:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-08T23:55:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sandle, R. V., Day, K. & Muskett, T. (2018). Working to Feel Better or Feeling Better to Work? Discourses of Wellbeing in Austerity Reality TV. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 14(2). | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1552-9215 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58700 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 14, no. 2 | |
| dc.subject | austerity | |
| dc.subject | mental health | |
| dc.subject | reality TV | |
| dc.title | Working to Feel Better or Feeling Better to Work? Discourses of Wellbeing in Austerity Reality TV | |
| dc.type | The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation Forum | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |