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Invisible minds: The dominant wellbeing discourse, mental health, bio-power and chameleon resistance

Hadar Elraz Orcid Logo, Darren McCabe Orcid Logo

Organization, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 490 - 509

Swansea University Author: Hadar Elraz Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/13505084221145580

Abstract

The dominant wellbeing discourse (DWD) in neoliberal economies can be understood as a form of bio-power that presupposes healthy individuals. It seeks to produce subjects who take responsibility for their wellbeing and, in this way, render themselves productive. Drawing on interviews with individual...

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ISSN: 1350-5084 1461-7323
Published: SAGE Publications 2023
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Abstract: The dominant wellbeing discourse (DWD) in neoliberal economies can be understood as a form of bio-power that presupposes healthy individuals. It seeks to produce subjects who take responsibility for their wellbeing and, in this way, render themselves productive. Drawing on interviews with individuals who volunteered a diagnosed mental health condition (MHC), we explore how they resisted the negative associations with MHCs through making their conditions invisible. Hence they sought to blend in and make themselves visible as ‘normal’, well, healthy, responsible, productive subjects. Although we call this chameleon resistance it is bound up with consent and compliance as it reproduces the DWD and negative associations with MHCs.
Keywords: Bio-power,,discourse, identity, invisibility, mental health, power, resistance, subjectivity, wellbeing
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: ESRC, ES/H032002/1 The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: Hadar Elraz received funding from the ESRC for the empirical research that this paper draws from, award number ES/H032002/1.
Issue: 3
Start Page: 490
End Page: 509

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