Vivienne Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 142765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivienne Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8932-5693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trends in vaping prevalence and mental health associations among Australian youth
BACKGROUND: Growing international concern about youth vaping highlights the need for comprehensive surveillance, particularly given associations between vaping, smoking, and mental health. This study examined trends in vaping prevalence and associated factors among Australians to inform policy responses. METHODS: Repeated cross-sectional analyses used the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys (2016, 2019, 2022/23) with nationally representativ…
A Pre–Post Study of the Feasibility, Acceptability and Benefits of a Co‐Design Approach for the Development of a Digital Suicide Prevention App for International Students
BACKGROUND: Interest in co-design for suicide prevention is growing, yet few studies have evaluated feasibility, acceptability and impact, particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. This study assessed a co-design process used to develop a digital suicide prevention intervention with international students in Australia. DESIGN: We conducted a mixed-methods pre-post evaluation across 10 student and three stakeholder worksh…
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
Climate Change and Youth
Worldwide, we are facing escalating mental health impacts related to climate change. Young people are disproportionately affected by climate-related extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves and floods. As climate change accelerates, increased frequency and severity of these weather events, along with awareness of the global environmental crisis, contribute to rising levels of hopelessness, anxiety, and distress among young people. This emo…
Found Cluster
Every miscarriage is a work accident
This article explores the potentials of a materialist approach to miscarriage, taking Silvia Federici's provocation that ‘every miscarriage is a work accident’ as a catalyst. It is fifty years since Federici wrote this line in her renowned ‘Wages Against Housework’ manifesto, yet miscarriage has never been given full systematic analysis within the Wages for Housework theoretical corpus, nor the broader field of social reproduction theory. After s…
How to defeat miscarriage stigma
Public discussions of miscarriage in the UK frequently describe it as a stigmatised phenomenon that is 'shrouded in silence'. And in turn, 'breaking the silence' is presented as the means of defeating the stigma. In this article, however, I argue that it is time to abandon the 'breaking the silence' frame. This is not only because it overstates the public silence it condemns, but also because it is rooted in an inadequate understanding of stigma,…
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health
Inequitable access to mental healthcare for socially excluded adolescents
Background: Adolescence is a critical period for mental health and social exclusion, a key social determinant of mental health. Early intervention approaches are key to mitigating the impact of mental ill-health during adolescence, however social exclusion can create additional barriers to accessing care. Aim: We aimed to better understand help-seeking experiences of adolescents facing co-occurring social exclusion and mental ill-health, includin…
The changing impacts of social determinants on youth mental health in Australia
Aims: Most lifetime mental health disorders begin by age 25 years, and the prevalence among young people has been increasing over recent years. We sought to understand what impact, if any, social determinants have had on this increase through the analysis of an Australian longitudinal dataset (with data from 2007 to 2021). Methods: The analysis focused on five social determinants: loneliness and lack of social support, family relationships, parti…
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
The forgetting of Mary Wollstonecraft's religiosity
Religious concepts and themes are central to many of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, yet rarely feature within popular representations of her life, work and legacy today. This paper examines the forgetting of Wollstonecraft’s religiosity in light of the broader narratives that western feminism circulates about its past and present, focusing particularly on the historiographical practices and temporal tropes that construct feminism as a quintessen…
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History
Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time o
Explorations in feminist historiography
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
Memory and the Metaphysics of Music
This essay seeks to further elucidate and critically assess the distinct philosophical position of Christine Battersby through examining in closer detail her critique of Deleuze and Guattari. It begins by discussing Battersby's reading of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist metaphysics, which focuses on their evocation of the ‘refrain’ in A Thousand Plateaus. Through tracing their account of the material processes of repetition within the world of…
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
How to defeat miscarriage stigma
Public discussions of miscarriage in the UK frequently describe it as a stigmatised phenomenon that is 'shrouded in silence'. And in turn, 'breaking the silence' is presented as the means of defeating the stigma. In this article, however, I argue that it is time to abandon the 'breaking the silence' frame. This is not only because it overstates the public silence it condemns, but also because it is rooted in an inadequate understanding of stigma,…
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
Memory and the Metaphysics of Music
This essay seeks to further elucidate and critically assess the distinct philosophical position of Christine Battersby through examining in closer detail her critique of Deleuze and Guattari. It begins by discussing Battersby's reading of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist metaphysics, which focuses on their evocation of the ‘refrain’ in A Thousand Plateaus. Through tracing their account of the material processes of repetition within the world of…
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History
Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time o
Explorations in feminist historiography
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
The forgetting of Mary Wollstonecraft's religiosity
Religious concepts and themes are central to many of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, yet rarely feature within popular representations of her life, work and legacy today. This paper examines the forgetting of Wollstonecraft’s religiosity in light of the broader narratives that western feminism circulates about its past and present, focusing particularly on the historiographical practices and temporal tropes that construct feminism as a quintessen…
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health
Inequitable access to mental healthcare for socially excluded adolescents
Background: Adolescence is a critical period for mental health and social exclusion, a key social determinant of mental health. Early intervention approaches are key to mitigating the impact of mental ill-health during adolescence, however social exclusion can create additional barriers to accessing care. Aim: We aimed to better understand help-seeking experiences of adolescents facing co-occurring social exclusion and mental ill-health, includin…
The changing impacts of social determinants on youth mental health in Australia
Aims: Most lifetime mental health disorders begin by age 25 years, and the prevalence among young people has been increasing over recent years. We sought to understand what impact, if any, social determinants have had on this increase through the analysis of an Australian longitudinal dataset (with data from 2007 to 2021). Methods: The analysis focused on five social determinants: loneliness and lack of social support, family relationships, parti…
Climate Change and Youth
Worldwide, we are facing escalating mental health impacts related to climate change. Young people are disproportionately affected by climate-related extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves and floods. As climate change accelerates, increased frequency and severity of these weather events, along with awareness of the global environmental crisis, contribute to rising levels of hopelessness, anxiety, and distress among young people. This emo…
Found Cluster
Every miscarriage is a work accident
This article explores the potentials of a materialist approach to miscarriage, taking Silvia Federici's provocation that ‘every miscarriage is a work accident’ as a catalyst. It is fifty years since Federici wrote this line in her renowned ‘Wages Against Housework’ manifesto, yet miscarriage has never been given full systematic analysis within the Wages for Housework theoretical corpus, nor the broader field of social reproduction theory. After s…
How to defeat miscarriage stigma
Public discussions of miscarriage in the UK frequently describe it as a stigmatised phenomenon that is 'shrouded in silence'. And in turn, 'breaking the silence' is presented as the means of defeating the stigma. In this article, however, I argue that it is time to abandon the 'breaking the silence' frame. This is not only because it overstates the public silence it condemns, but also because it is rooted in an inadequate understanding of stigma,…
Trends in vaping prevalence and mental health associations among Australian youth
BACKGROUND: Growing international concern about youth vaping highlights the need for comprehensive surveillance, particularly given associations between vaping, smoking, and mental health. This study examined trends in vaping prevalence and associated factors among Australians to inform policy responses. METHODS: Repeated cross-sectional analyses used the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys (2016, 2019, 2022/23) with nationally representativ…
A Pre–Post Study of the Feasibility, Acceptability and Benefits of a Co‐Design Approach for the Development of a Digital Suicide Prevention App for International Students
BACKGROUND: Interest in co-design for suicide prevention is growing, yet few studies have evaluated feasibility, acceptability and impact, particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. This study assessed a co-design process used to develop a digital suicide prevention intervention with international students in Australia. DESIGN: We conducted a mixed-methods pre-post evaluation across 10 student and three stakeholder worksh…
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
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