The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’

Hemmings, Clare; Kabesh, Amal Treacher

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“…However, agency theory has been criticised for its concentration on rationality, language, intentional action and goal orientation (for example , Shilling 1999;Velleman 2000;Hemmings and Treacher Kabesh 2013). Since people with dementia may lack these abilities, they are therefore assumed to possess weak or even no agency.…”

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“…In addition, a bias towards intentional action has led to the neglect of habituated or embodied agency (Velleman 2000;Cleaver 2007). Fundamentally, the concept of agency is over-individualistic, such that relationality and interdependency are underrecognised (Hemmings and Treacher Kabesh 2013). Whilst the apparent threshold for agency is unachievable by many people with dementia, there is a need to identify whether they can nonetheless exercise agency.…”

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Recognising the agency of people with dementia

Boyle

2014

Disability & Society

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People with dementia have been assumed to possess weak or even no agency, so this paper provides a novel contribution to academic debate by examining their actual potential for agency. The author draws on findings from a qualitative study of everyday decision-making by people with dementia that aimed to identify the role of social factors (such as gender) in influencing their involvement in decisions. Whilst decision-making constitutes a form of deliberative agency, the research also identified when agency was alternatively habituated, embodied or emotional. The Economic and Social Research Council-funded research was undertaken in the North of England. Existing theoretical perspectives on agency are critiqued, particularly in relation to rationality, language and individualised agency. The study highlighted that people with dementia who lack deliberative capacity can nonetheless demonstrate creative capacity for agency. A more expansive concept of agency is needed in social science theory that is informed by the experiences of cognitively disabled people.

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Recognising the agency of people with dementia

Boyle

2014

Disability & Society

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“…It discusses to what extent the people with more advanced dementia who participated in the study used their emotions to form judgements about their interpersonal situations and to respond relationally, that is, with regard for their social bonds and (inter)dependencies. Whereas the concept of 'personal agency' is over-individualistic, a relational approach acknowledges how agency manifests itself, and is negotiated, within relationships of care and mutual dependence (Mackenzie and Stoljar, 2000;Hemmings and Treacher Kabesh, 2013). As the focus of this article is on the emotional reflexivity of people with more advanced dementia and their potential for agency, there is insufficient scope for examining the relational agency exercised by the couple as a whole (discussed in previous papers: Boyle, 2013a;2013b, 2013c, 2014a.…”

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“…As Giddens' concept of 'agency' also tends to portray individuals as omnipotent, it sets an unachievable standard, particularly for people with dementia (Hemmings and Treacher Kabesh, 2013). Rather than viewing reflexivity as a process of using knowledge to initiate social action (Giddens, 1984), a more grounded concept -relating to when people act to influence their own personal circumstances -enables the potential agency of people with dementia to be considered, particularly their efforts to maintain intimate relationships .…”

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Showing how they feel: the emotional reflexivity of people with dementia

Boyle

Warren

2017

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article explores whether people with dementia demonstrate emotional reflexivity within their personal relationships. Previous research has suggested that they may lose their capacity for reflection as the disease progresses. In turn, it has also been assumed that they lack the reflexive abilities necessary to exercise agency within their daily lives. The authors draw on findings from a qualitative study of everyday decision-making by people with dementia and their spouses undertaken in England. The sample consisted of 21 couples, but to enable emotional reflexivity to be examined in depth, this article focuses on the emotional communication of six people with more advanced dementia. The research found that even when their abilities for deliberation, discourse and social interaction were limited, they could nonetheless demonstrate emotional reflexivity. As they also exhibited a capacity for imaginative agency, this suggests that intersubjectivity can be preserved in dementia even when social skills are apparently lost. key words agency • reflexivity • emotions • dementia • social relationships

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“…However, few studies have directly explored the meanings of gendered Islamic virtues or the contents of piety among Muslim women who have faith but not necessarily a revivalist commitment. Unless theorised as part of a fundamental ''agentic'' submission to faith, it seems that gendered Islamic virtues pose dilemmas for researchers who are doubtless wary (and weary) of retreading debates about gender relations in Islam (see Bilge, 2010;Hemmings & Treacher-Kabesh, 2013).…”

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Modesty, liberty, equality: Negotiations of gendered principles of piety among Muslim women who cover

Chapman

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’

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