Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures / edited by Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton, and Marianne Clark, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Naomi, editor.

Southerton, Clare, editor.

Clark, Marianne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health attitudes.

Health attitudes--Research--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

Researching Contemporary Wellness Culturesbrings together scholars examining the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed and practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figure and Tables

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Introduction: Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures

What is Wellness, Exactly?

Why Study Wellness?

Wellness, Whiteness and Conspiracy Cultures

Lived Wellness Practices

The 'Wellness Body', Food and Diet Culture

Conclusion

References

Section 1: Wellness, Whiteness and Conspiracy Cultures

Chapter 1: The Body Complex: (Con)spirituality, Wellness and COVID-19 in Australia

Introduction

Medical Pluralism and Mainstreaming SWell

The Body Complex: (Con)spirituality, Bodily Autonomy and Sovereignty

The 2021 SWell in Australia Study

SWell Survey

SWell Interviews

Analysis and Conclusions

Chapter 2: COVID-19 Mis/Disinformation in Online Wellness Communities: Narratives of Individualism and Practices of Networked Resistance

Introduction: The COVID-19 'Information Disorder'

Performing 'Wellness' Online: Persuasion Through Authenticity and Intimacy

Whiteness, Individualism, and the Co-opting of Social Justice Language

The Task Ahead: Re-Thinking 'Resilience' in Efforts to Address Digital Mis/Disinformation

Chapter 3: Looking Good, Feeling Good and Refusing the Jab: Tracing the Relationships Between Healthism, Wellness Culture and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Introduction: Contemporary 'Risk Societies' and Managing the Risky Body

Risk in the Time of COVID-19

The 'Fit, Healthy' Body and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Unreadable, Unstable: Fit, Healthy Bodies and the Clinical Gaze

Problematising the 'Fit Healthy' Body

Vaccine Hesitancy as a Bodily Practice

Cultural Sites of Vaccine Hesitancy

Section 2: Lived Wellness Practice.

Chapter 4: Measuring Wellbeing: A Critical Rapid Review of Scales Used in Advanced Cancer Contexts

Methodology

Rapid Literature Review: Search Strategy and Results

Limitations

Findings and Discussion: Clinical Assessment of Symptoms and the Conceptualisation of Wellbeing

Pain and Functioning: Physiological Aspects of Symptom Burden

Pain and Distress: 'Bio-Psycho' Aspects of Symptom Burden

Support and Sociality: Social Impacts of Symptom Burden

Chapter 5: Search Inside Yourself: Google, Mindfulness, and Workplace Wellbeing

Mindfulness

Cruel Optimism

Search Inside Yourself - A Case Study

The Promise of a Better Life

Chapter 6: Wellness Washing: Wellness, Work and the Transformation of Pleasure

Wellness Culture in Context

The Pandemic and Wellness

Affording Pleasures: A Conceptual Frame

Cases

Technology, Pleasure and Wellness

ASMR at the Wellness/Pleasure Intersection

From Digital Drugs to Binaural Beats?

Discussion

Producing Digital Pleasures

Section 3: The 'Wellness Body', Food and Diet Culture

Chapter 7: 'I Just Have to Remember that My Body is Different': Asian-Australian Women's Experiences with Wellness Culture

Wellness and Neoliberal-Healthism

Asian-Australian

Method

Vignettes

Christine

Lisa

Vicky

Melissa

Daisy

Chapter 8: 'Relaxed Restriction': 'What I Eat In A Day' Videos and the Persistence of Diet Culture

Introduction - The 'return' of Diet Culture

Conceptualising 'Relaxed Restriction'

The Postfeminist Framing of Diet: From Punishment to Empowerment

Native Expertise, Influencers and Advice-Giving

Methods.

The '80/20' Rule and Regulated Indulgence

Misinterpretations of Intuitive Eating: More Than a Hunger-fullness Diet

Intuitive Eating As Self-Discipline

Illusions of Non-Restriction: Volume Eating

Rebranding Diet Culture Through 'Embodied Food Feelings'

In Pursuit of the 'Perfect' Diet

Chapter 9: Combatting Wellness Misinformation on Youtube: The Case of Abbey Sharp

Health Professionals Online

Introducing Abbey Sharp

Multi-Dimensional Ethical Practice

Collaborative Life Narratives

Authorial Rights of Video Subjects

'I am not a Professional': YouTuber Disclaimers

Chapter 10: 'Having it All': Wellness Culture, Instagram Bodies and 'Perfect Lives' in a Time of Global Ecological Crisis

Introduction: Health, Well-being and 'Wellness'

Body work and Body Ideals in a Visual Digital Culture

Bodies as 'Becoming'

Methodology and Study Details

'Because I'm not thin, I can't post photos': The Affective Constraints of Participation in Digital Socialities

The Promise of a 'Perfect Life'

Conclusion and Post-script on the Disjuncture Between the Neoliberal Fantasy of a Perfect Life and Impending Climate Collapse

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Smith, Naomi Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures

ISBN:

9781804555866