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“Poster girl”: The discourse constructing the image of “girls in distress” as existential epistemic injustice

The present study is focused on understanding how the image of the girl designated “in distress” in official regulations guiding the provision of public social services to girls in Israel can be structured. The study takes a qualitative approach, and employs the critical-feminist paradigm to the ana...

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Autores principales: Levin, Lia, Cohen Brafman, Maya, Alnabilsy, Raghda, Pagorek Eshel, Shira, Karram-Elias, Haneen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9705969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36458115
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.966778
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author Levin, Lia
Cohen Brafman, Maya
Alnabilsy, Raghda
Pagorek Eshel, Shira
Karram-Elias, Haneen
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description The present study is focused on understanding how the image of the girl designated “in distress” in official regulations guiding the provision of public social services to girls in Israel can be structured. The study takes a qualitative approach, and employs the critical-feminist paradigm to the analysis and interpretation of discourse, combining thematic content analysis and deductive critical discourse analysis. Its main findings disclose an organized process of establishing the normative authorities dominating the discourse on public social services for girls; classifying groups of service recipients to which a girl can belong; constructing their forms; and ultimately circumscribing the girls thereto, determining the performative acts on which receiving state assistance is conditional. Through discursive maneuvers of construction, the image of the girl is “born” as an undisputed “truth” deriving from the deviance attached to her every move. In this trajectory, basic epistemic injustices are perpetuated and solidified, and a new form of epistemic injustice—existential epistemic injustice—is revealed. This process's implications are proposed.
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spelling pubmed-97059692022-11-30 “Poster girl”: The discourse constructing the image of “girls in distress” as existential epistemic injustice Levin, Lia Cohen Brafman, Maya Alnabilsy, Raghda Pagorek Eshel, Shira Karram-Elias, Haneen Front Psychiatry Psychiatry The present study is focused on understanding how the image of the girl designated “in distress” in official regulations guiding the provision of public social services to girls in Israel can be structured. The study takes a qualitative approach, and employs the critical-feminist paradigm to the analysis and interpretation of discourse, combining thematic content analysis and deductive critical discourse analysis. Its main findings disclose an organized process of establishing the normative authorities dominating the discourse on public social services for girls; classifying groups of service recipients to which a girl can belong; constructing their forms; and ultimately circumscribing the girls thereto, determining the performative acts on which receiving state assistance is conditional. Through discursive maneuvers of construction, the image of the girl is “born” as an undisputed “truth” deriving from the deviance attached to her every move. In this trajectory, basic epistemic injustices are perpetuated and solidified, and a new form of epistemic injustice—existential epistemic injustice—is revealed. This process's implications are proposed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9705969/ /pubmed/36458115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.966778 Text en Copyright © 2022 Levin, Cohen Brafman, Alnabilsy, Pagorek Eshel and Karram-Elias. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Levin, Lia
Cohen Brafman, Maya
Alnabilsy, Raghda
Pagorek Eshel, Shira
Karram-Elias, Haneen
“Poster girl”: The discourse constructing the image of “girls in distress” as existential epistemic injustice
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title_short “Poster girl”: The discourse constructing the image of “girls in distress” as existential epistemic injustice
title_sort “poster girl”: the discourse constructing the image of “girls in distress” as existential epistemic injustice
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9705969/
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