Posting about one’s children and family has become a routine practice for mothers on social media. The task of presenting oneself as “good” mother is subject to the trouble competing requirements around motherhood (e.g., neoliberal intensive mothering, feminine relationality) well ideals which are unrealistic many. These troubles further complicated by sharenting discourses in parental posting ...

In recent years, menopause as a phase of transition has received great media attention in Sweden, not only terms the cessation menstrual periods, but specifi cally with focus on hormonal changes longer period time during which female bodies undergo adjustment. books such Hormonstark [Hormone strong] (2020), Perimenopower (2018) and Livet med klimakteriet [Life Menopause] stressed reader mid-car...

Abstract Since the successful containment of COVID-19 in Wuhan late March 2020, China had implemented a nationwide highly stringent and restrictive zero-COVID policy to manage pandemic until sudden swift away from it early December 2022. How did Chinese Communist Party discursively construct as ‘normal’ legitimate policy? Using interpretivism poststructuralist political theory, this paper exami...

Methodology and Interpretive Procedures’ acknowledges the vital importance of methodology as I construct a discourse that examines discourses. Through Ball (1994) this paper considers methodological terms such as critical, analyst, risk , imagination , reflexive and reflective. Accepting that the naming of any field is contestable therefore risky, the educational field of focus is ‘the arts’. T...

This article presents results from qualitative research on children’s dominant gender discourses in kindergarten and the influence of socio-pedagogical aspects culture, transmitted via teachers’ personal epistemologies, construction identities. The main questions guiding our were: What stories are narrated a group, under which influences do these become established as norms? Our understanding i...

What does it mean to represent events from the Holocaust in a graphic novel? And what if this is done not stark design of Art Spiegelman’s Maus but light ligne claire (known Tintin )? This paper explores discursive practices surrounding The Search , novel produced specifically teach children and young adults about Holocaust. It asks how (novel) forms subjectivation are articulated everyday, mun...

This article considers the conceptual role that contingency plays in class-based inequality, by examining financial insecurity UK following 2008 crisis, austerity, and COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Althusser’s aleatory materialism, I counter postmodern poststructuralist ideas of as a universally disruptive challenge to power stratification, showing instead how pervasive sense uncertainty drives...

This article explores how the field of critical addiction studies – which can be traced back to late twentieth century has used Foucauldian social theory on governance challenge dominant biomedical and moralistic models account for ways in discourse practice reproduce purifying, essentialist singular assumptions about behaviour, bodies desire. Starting from Foucault’s critique neoliberalist pho...

Love, Simon (2018) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti and based on Becky Albertalli's novel vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) about email correspondence between another male student from his high school. Digital Simon's voiceovers form backbone of storytelling. Comparing book film, with a particular focus written communication narrator's inner voice, one can observe dif...