Utilising discursive positioning in counselling

Winslade, John

doi:10.1080/03069880500179541

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“…Thus, subjects' speech acts occur in a pre-existing social context and, when the subject speaks, s/he takes up a position in relation to discourse on the basis of words and meanings that are embedded in utterances (Winslade, 2005). In the act of speaking, the subject not only evokes particular discourses, but also reproduces them.…”

Section: Male Violence Discourse and Shifting Subjectivitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence

Lau

Stevens

2012

Feminism & Psychology

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This study examined how men accounted for their violent behaviours against their intimate female partners. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 men from three men's groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. All the men self-reported that they had committed acts of intimate partner violence previously, and the majority were from low-income, township settings. Dissociations, justifications and confessions featured as the predominant accounting forms that worked to transform participants' subject positions from the 'violent abuser' to the 'legitimately violent partner' and even to the 'changed man'. Attention is accorded to how gender ideologies and heteropatriarchal discourses legitimating male violence against women were reinforced, yet were at times challenged within their talk and through rhetorical devices. In line with a poststructuralist reading, the study highlights the complexities underpinning men's varied meanings of violence. On the one hand, it reveals the agentic shifting of identities. On the other, it highlights the social discourses that are embedded in men's talk and therefore inscribed into male subjectivities.

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Section: Male Violence Discourse and Shifting Subjectivitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence

Lau

Stevens

2012

Feminism & Psychology

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“…None the less, we are drawn to the possibility that the introduction of a new treatment-a new and different form of carehas the potential to challenge, even change, serviceusers' sense of identity. We have argued elsewhere that different treatment modalities produce different subject positions for service users [13]; this re-positioning, in turn, creating the possibility of re-negotiating relationships and identity conclusions [17]. This paper takes up the critical question of treatment identity by examining what happens under an integrated treatment model when a new and different treatment modality and form of care is introduced into the OST setting.…”

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‘Not just Methadone Tracy’: transformations in service-user identity following the introduction of hepatitis C treatment into Australian opiate substitution settings

Rance

Treloar

2013

Addiction

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Aims To explore identity transformation among service users attending opiate substitution therapy (OST) clinics following the introduction of hepatitis C (HCV) care and treatment. Design An interview-based substudy of the Australian ETHOS (Enhancing Treatment for Hepatitis C in Opiate Substitution Settings) project. Setting Three OST clinics and one community health centre (operating a public OST) in New South Wales, Australia. Participants were interviewed at the recruitment sites. Participants The sample consisted of 57 OST service users concurrently living with HCV, 16 staff, including specialist HCV clinicians, and three peer-support workers, employed on the ETHOS project. Measurements Semi-structured interviews. Findings Service-user participants largely welcomed the introduction of HCV treatment as a practical, clinical intervention that also intimated a more comprehensive, holistic form of care. Negative stereotypes characteristic of OST settings-of limited, routinized clinical exchanges and minimal social-care interaction-were unsettled, opening up the possibility of new relations between staff and service users. The shift in the dynamic of the clinical encounter to address health in addition to dependence appeared to catalyse transformative possibilities not only for the therapeutic alliance but also for service-user understandings of self and identity. Conclusion Trial introduction of HCV care and treatment in selected Australian opiate substitution therapy (OST) clinics may have facilitated alternative, 'non-addict' identities to emerge from a clinical setting where the stigmatizing figure of 'the drug user' has traditionally prevailed.

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“…Student-initiated learner agency can challenge the dominant classroom discourse and it can appear as if students are 'offtask' or 'ricocheting off the walls' (Jan's interview). Winslade (2005) points out that moment by moment cultural influences can be made visible in discourse, in particular, it is possible to recognise the ways in which people resist and refuse their discursive positions: '[I]t opens space for people to make choices, to take stands, or to protest injustice. In other words the possibility of contradiction enables us to exercise agency' (p. 355).…”

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Envisaging agency as discourse hybridity: a Butlerian analysis of secondary classroom discourses

Charteris

2014

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Conceptualised from a range of sociological perspectives, and theorised extensively over the last 50 years, human agency is an integral element to lifelong learning. Poststructural theory with its decentred discursive construction of the learner offers a vibrant conception of classroom dynamics. This paper envisions how learner agency can be performative in the discursive space of a secondary classroom. The research disrupts the notion of a unified subject, a key tenet of sovereign theory that is evident in conceptions of the 'self-regulated', 'self-motivated', 'self-efficacious' student. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Bronwyn Davies, the classroom relations in this study are read as both dynamic and interdiscursive. Agency plays out through learners' discourse moves as they act upon and blend discourses to learn in a New Zealand Year 9 science classroom.

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Utilising discursive positioning in counselling

Cited by 73 publications

References 9 publications

Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence

Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence

‘Not just Methadone Tracy’: transformations in service-user identity following the introduction of hepatitis C treatment into Australian opiate substitution settings

Envisaging agency as discourse hybridity: a Butlerian analysis of secondary classroom discourses

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