Ashley Frawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 328316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Frawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Frawley |
| SIGNATURE | FRAWLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4691-4612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Edgar Cabanas’s “The Life and Death of Emotional Fads: A Review of Ashley Frawley’s Significant Emotions. Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age (2024, London: Bloomsbury)”
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age
Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley’s previous book, Semiotics of Happiness, it examines in detail the ‘emotional turn’ across the social sciences and the broader cultural rise of the ‘age of emotion’ and its influence on how we talk about and approach new socia…
Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a 'non-negotiable' instruction for universities to make 'positive mental health' a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative media analysis (QMA) of public discussions o…
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Unhappy News: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem
Drawing on a study of UK national broadsheets, this article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem in the UK by drawing on the theoretical insights of social problem constructionism and related social movement theory in terms of the processual, rhetorical, and contextual factors involved in the construction, transmission, and institutionalisation of new social problems. In particular, issue ownership in the realm of pr…
Happiness Research: A Review of Critiques
In the short decades since the introduction of positive psychology instigated broader interdisciplinary research, interest in happiness has been growing in academia, the media and public policy. Numerous critiques of these developments have been forwarded from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. This article discusses three such criticisms: the culture‐bound and normative character of happiness, ‘bad science’ and scientism, and …
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a 'non-negotiable' instruction for universities to make 'positive mental health' a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative media analysis (QMA) of public discussions o…
Unhappy News: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem
Drawing on a study of UK national broadsheets, this article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem in the UK by drawing on the theoretical insights of social problem constructionism and related social movement theory in terms of the processual, rhetorical, and contextual factors involved in the construction, transmission, and institutionalisation of new social problems. In particular, issue ownership in the realm of pr…
Happiness Research: A Review of Critiques
In the short decades since the introduction of positive psychology instigated broader interdisciplinary research, interest in happiness has been growing in academia, the media and public policy. Numerous critiques of these developments have been forwarded from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. This article discusses three such criticisms: the culture‐bound and normative character of happiness, ‘bad science’ and scientism, and …
Unhappy News: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness Problem
Drawing on a study of UK national broadsheets, this article examines the emergence and spread of happiness as a social problem in the UK by drawing on the theoretical insights of social problem constructionism and related social movement theory in terms of the processual, rhetorical, and contextual factors involved in the construction, transmission, and institutionalisation of new social problems. In particular, issue ownership in the realm of pr…
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age
Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley’s previous book, Semiotics of Happiness, it examines in detail the ‘emotional turn’ across the social sciences and the broader cultural rise of the ‘age of emotion’ and its influence on how we talk about and approach new socia…
Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a 'non-negotiable' instruction for universities to make 'positive mental health' a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative media analysis (QMA) of public discussions o…
Response to Edgar Cabanas’s “The Life and Death of Emotional Fads: A Review of Ashley Frawley’s Significant Emotions. Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age (2024, London: Bloomsbury)”
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Happiness (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works)