Mandy Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5149495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mandy Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8200-0626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indonesian women’s journey reflection: Understanding the past, present and future challenges
‘Is it okay to have a child?’: Figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change
In this article, we engage feminist theorisations of figurations as “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway 1997/2018) to trace some of the figures which are animating stories about climate change and reproduction in Global North contexts. We focus our reading on a handful of texts which circulate around the question of ‘Is it okay to have a child, given our climate conditions and futures?’ Throughout, we consider the relationship be…
Hysterical inquiry: A methodology emergent through a dutiful daughter
This article theorises hysterical inquiry as an emergent methodology for feminist psychological research. Our example is based on a daughter’s experience of caring for her dying mother. During this process, it becomes apparent that she is only present as caregiver—her mother/daughter encounter has been suppressed by contemporary discourses of caregiving responsibility. Drawing on Freud, Lacan, and feminist theories of psychoanalysis, the daughter…
When the Marae Moves into the City: Being Māori in Urban Palmerston North
Through processes of colonization, many indigenous peoples have become absorbed into settler societies and new ways of existing within urban environments. Settler society economic, legal, and social structures have facilitated this absorption by recasting indigenous selves in ways that reflect the cultural values of settler populations. Urban enclaves populated and textured by indigenous groups such as Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) can…
Disrupting being on an industrial scale: Towards a theorization of Māori ways-of-being
The discipline of psychology grew out of European philosophy into a unique discipline that retained reductionist assumptions regarding knowledge production and ways-of-being. Born out of dissatisfaction with the dominance and ineffectiveness of Anglo-European/American assumptions in psychology, and how the discipline obscured culturally unique ways-of-being and producing knowledge, Indigenous scholars are working to decolonize psychology. This ar…
Feeling stories: A Bakhtinian reading of metaphor in the practice of reflexive narrative analysis
This paper aims to contribute to the critical psychological literature on a narrative psychological approach to emotion, particularly with regard to the ways in which critically reflective and metaphorically rich writing enhances our theoretical conceptualization of culturally constituted emotional experiences. We engage the concepts of sjuzet and fabula, initially introduced to the study of literature by the Russian formalists, and later extende…
Teenage childbearing: Young sole mothers challenge the stereotypes
Teenage sole mothers in receipt of welfare benefits are seriously affected by systematic and radical restructuring of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s state welfare system since 2008. With few exceptions, the changes oblige beneficiaries to prioritise obtaining paid work. To address questions of how welfare changes and socio‐cultural context in Aotearoa New Zealand are experienced by teenage mothers we conducted a narrative study of 10 young women’s storie…
IAnorexic: Haraway’s Cyborg Metaphor as Ethical Methodology
The burgeoning connections between the human body and technology have opened space for disenfranchised “others” to take up alternative lived experience, such as the exclusively online pro-anorexia movement. Haraway’s (1991) cyborg metaphor, characterised by organic/machine hybridisation, speaks to the blurring of the boundaries between taken-for-granted binaries that “other” women and their experiences of their bodies. Through a study of pro-anor…
Manufacturing egalitarian injustice: A discursive analysis of the rhetorical strategies used in fathers’ rights websites in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The fathers’ rights movement is a worldwide phenomenon that takes a particular form in our geopolitical region. Responding initially to an apparent judicial preference for mothers to have custody of children, the movement grew alongside, and in resistance to, the women’s movement. In this paper, we analyse how texts of fathers’ rights discourse strategically appropriate egalitarianism in the context of gendered struggles over rights within the nu…
Narrative Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Addressing Perennial Problems in Quantitative Research
Narrative research can offer insights into perennial methodological problems facing quantitative researchers in the field of child sexual abuse. Using research data from a retrospective, narrative study of 29 adult participants who had spent their childhood in a New Zealand commune in which child sexual abuse was known to have occurred, this article explores four key methodological issues in the field of child sexual abuse research. These include…
The play of metaphor: Shifting positions through autobiographic texts in psychology
This paper contributes to post-crisis, social constructionist psychological literature addressing mainstream psychology’s failure to engage in a relevant way with people’s everyday experiences. We work with a narrative psychology paradigm, focussing specifically on the element of metaphor as a useful way to come to terms with how our ‘selves’ and our interactions with others are sociolinguistically fashioned. We discuss an article by Ian Parker, …
Growing Up with Child Sexual Abuse in an Experimental Commune: Making Sense of Narrative Variation
The legitimacy of adult's accounts of child sexual abuse depends on the consistency of the story they tell about this experience. But there are a variety of influences that conspire to create dynamic variation in retrospective accounts of child sexual abuse. In a study of an experimental New Zealand commune called Centrepoint, participants showed considerable variation in accounting for the child sexual abuse that was known to have occurred there…
Encountering impasses: Yet another story
In turn, I reply here to Kareen Ror Malone’s response to my paper “Sado-Masochism and Feminist Desire: The Other Measure of True Love Bleeds.” The multiple possibilities of recognition and puzzlement that emerge from my reading of “The Impasses of Encounter: Psychoanalysis and Feminism” are fecund; though the space to consider them here is seriously limited. In place of revisiting questions of form and style associated with écriture feminine, or …
Sado-masochism and feminist desire: The other measure of true love bleeds
This paper engages the notion of parallax: the moment of irreconcilable difference, the gap, the tension, in the presentation of things seen from different perspectives. In this case the particular “thing seen” from different perspectives is something like a subject position in which women’s desire is inscribed as sado-masochistic—both in popular accounts of intimate violence and in more academic accounts of feminist textual resistances within th…
Bullying in secondary schools: Through a discursive lens
This paper analyses students’ constructions of bullying from a social constructionist perspective. Interviews were conducted with 24 students at a small semi‐rural secondary school in New Zealand. These were taped, transcribed and a discourse analysis, informed by the work of Foucault, was carried out. It was found that students made sense of bullying by drawing on constructions that included bullying as a consequence of differences and as a form…
Excusing themselves: Judges’ judgements of qualitative/quality research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methodology can obstruct research momentum at many important junctions along the research path, from funding and institutional approval to publication and social application. This article provides an example of how the dominance of scientific quantitative methodology contributed to the demise of a qualitative study examining judiciary understandings of domestic violence
Protection, manipulation or interference with relationships? Discourse analysis of New Zealand lawyers' talk about supervised access and partner violence
Violence against women within the context of intimate relationships is a complex social problem in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally. Such abuse by men is particularly problematic because of its prevalence, and because of the extent and magnitude of deleterious effects on the health and psychological well‐being of women and children. In New Zealand, the legal system is assumed to play an important role in protecting women and children from…
Staying or returning: Pre‐migration influences on the migration process of German migrants to New Zealand
Changes in migrants' backgrounds and societies sending and receiving migrants might increase adaptation issues and reduce retention. To enhance migrants' well‐being/health and their likelihood of staying it is necessary to gain an understanding of psychological and social factors that contribute to resilience and adaptation. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that investigated the experiences, interpretations and actions of Ger…
Weaving cohesive identities: New Zealand women talk as mothers and workers
This exploratory study examines the discourses which construct women as mothers and workers and explores the strategies the women use to weave these sometimes contradictory identities together. Discourse analysis was used to explore the talk of two focus groups of first‐time mothers, all New Zealanders of European descent in stable heterosexual partnerships with babies aged less than six months. The women deployed an intensive mother discourse wh…
A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers
Remembering Embodied Domination: Questions of Critical/Feminist Psy-discourse on the Body
During the 1990s, texts of critical and feminist psychologies challenged taken-for-granted notions of natural, empirical bodies. The implications of these challenges for speaking of embodiment have become increasingly troublesome. Drawing on poststructuralist theories, this paper reads three critical and/or feminist psychological texts to problematize the theoretical constitution of embodiment. These readings are focused on the question of how th…
Narrative form and the morality of psychology's gendering stories
In this article we read particular fragments of poststructuralist theory to constitute a narrative epistemological position that enables us to question the morality of psychology's narratives of gendered subjectivities. Drawing on the work of Lyotard (1984) and White (1987) we theorise narrative form as complicit with moral order and the morality of subject positioning. We then question the positioning of a particular woman through a narrative te…
Working the Narrative Unconscious: Positioning Theory and Moral Order
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Politicising Mothers: Counter-narratives of Mothering Experience
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Pragmatic post‐structuralism (I): Participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention
This paper discusses the process and merits of a post‐structuralist approach to participant observation and describes the use of this research strategy in evaluating a community based ‘stopping violence’ programme. While the participant observation research strategy is commonly employed as a ‘process evaluation’ method (Rossi and Freeman, 1993 ) it's role within a distinctly post‐structuralist programme is a novel application of a well‐establishe…
Staying or returning: Pre‐migration influences on the migration process of German migrants to New Zealand
Changes in migrants' backgrounds and societies sending and receiving migrants might increase adaptation issues and reduce retention. To enhance migrants' well‐being/health and their likelihood of staying it is necessary to gain an understanding of psychological and social factors that contribute to resilience and adaptation. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that investigated the experiences, interpretations and actions of Ger…
A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers
When the Marae Moves into the City: Being Māori in Urban Palmerston North
Through processes of colonization, many indigenous peoples have become absorbed into settler societies and new ways of existing within urban environments. Settler society economic, legal, and social structures have facilitated this absorption by recasting indigenous selves in ways that reflect the cultural values of settler populations. Urban enclaves populated and textured by indigenous groups such as Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) can…
Bullying in secondary schools: Through a discursive lens
This paper analyses students’ constructions of bullying from a social constructionist perspective. Interviews were conducted with 24 students at a small semi‐rural secondary school in New Zealand. These were taped, transcribed and a discourse analysis, informed by the work of Foucault, was carried out. It was found that students made sense of bullying by drawing on constructions that included bullying as a consequence of differences and as a form…
Weaving cohesive identities: New Zealand women talk as mothers and workers
This exploratory study examines the discourses which construct women as mothers and workers and explores the strategies the women use to weave these sometimes contradictory identities together. Discourse analysis was used to explore the talk of two focus groups of first‐time mothers, all New Zealanders of European descent in stable heterosexual partnerships with babies aged less than six months. The women deployed an intensive mother discourse wh…
Protection, manipulation or interference with relationships? Discourse analysis of New Zealand lawyers' talk about supervised access and partner violence
Violence against women within the context of intimate relationships is a complex social problem in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally. Such abuse by men is particularly problematic because of its prevalence, and because of the extent and magnitude of deleterious effects on the health and psychological well‐being of women and children. In New Zealand, the legal system is assumed to play an important role in protecting women and children from…
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (I): Participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention
This paper discusses the process and merits of a post‐structuralist approach to participant observation and describes the use of this research strategy in evaluating a community based ‘stopping violence’ programme. While the participant observation research strategy is commonly employed as a ‘process evaluation’ method (Rossi and Freeman, 1993 ) it's role within a distinctly post‐structuralist programme is a novel application of a well‐establishe…
Subjectivities and Silences, Mother and Woman: Theorizing an Experience of Silence as a Speaking Subject
The article theorizes the positioning implications of a specific occasion of silence told through an autobiographical narrative. Positioning theory is discussed, as are modifications to speech act theory. These discussions raise questions concerning the social power relations that enable specific silences. The article reads an account of a mother's silence to argue that that silence may enable subject positions that marginalize or exclude the sil…
Teenage childbearing: Young sole mothers challenge the stereotypes
Teenage sole mothers in receipt of welfare benefits are seriously affected by systematic and radical restructuring of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s state welfare system since 2008. With few exceptions, the changes oblige beneficiaries to prioritise obtaining paid work. To address questions of how welfare changes and socio‐cultural context in Aotearoa New Zealand are experienced by teenage mothers we conducted a narrative study of 10 young women’s storie…
IAnorexic: Haraway’s Cyborg Metaphor as Ethical Methodology
The burgeoning connections between the human body and technology have opened space for disenfranchised “others” to take up alternative lived experience, such as the exclusively online pro-anorexia movement. Haraway’s (1991) cyborg metaphor, characterised by organic/machine hybridisation, speaks to the blurring of the boundaries between taken-for-granted binaries that “other” women and their experiences of their bodies. Through a study of pro-anor…
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (II): An outcomes evaluation of a stopping violence programme
This paper reports features of a distinctly post‐structuralist ‘outcome evaluation’ of a New Zealand stopping violence programme for men who have assaulted their spouses. Through analysis of pre‐ and post‐programme interviews it was found that the men's accounts of their violence shifted as a consequence of their participation in and exposure to the programme's discursive resources. Overall the men's accounts demonstrated movement towards taking …
Reading the Rhetoric of `Crisis
The `crisis' sometimes mentioned in reflexive social psychology texts of the past three decades frames contemporary writing about disciplinary practices. This paper analyses some texts of social psychology's `crisis' as part of the linguistic resources which both enable and constrain contemporary social constructionist texts. Examples of texts which diagnose the `crisis' differently are read. The readings identify particular tropes which signal n…
Discursive Acts: Reading `Discourse and Social Psychology-Eleven Years after
In this reply to Wetherell and Potter's (1998) reading of my article (Morgan, 1998) I construct their response as a turn-in-talk. This draws attention to my status as `second turn-taker' and allows me to acknowledge that alongside our continuing disagreement I am indebted to Wetherell and Potter's response for providing me with resources to draw my attention more closely to issues of rhetoric and dialogue
Speaking Subjects, Discursive Worlds: Readings from Discourse and Social Psychology
Discourse and Social Psychology by Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell has been an influential text in recent developments in social psychology. This paper examines certain aspects of the book's `linguistic resources'-though it does not use a discourse analytic approach and is neither a review nor a critique. Instead, through fragmentary readings informed by recent feminist writings, the paper raises questions about the `specific reality' (Pot…
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (I): Participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention
This paper discusses the process and merits of a post‐structuralist approach to participant observation and describes the use of this research strategy in evaluating a community based ‘stopping violence’ programme. While the participant observation research strategy is commonly employed as a ‘process evaluation’ method (Rossi and Freeman, 1993 ) it's role within a distinctly post‐structuralist programme is a novel application of a well‐establishe…
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (II): An outcomes evaluation of a stopping violence programme
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (I): Participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention
Pragmatic post‐structuralism (II): An outcomes evaluation of a stopping violence programme
This paper reports features of a distinctly post‐structuralist ‘outcome evaluation’ of a New Zealand stopping violence programme for men who have assaulted their spouses. Through analysis of pre‐ and post‐programme interviews it was found that the men's accounts of their violence shifted as a consequence of their participation in and exposure to the programme's discursive resources. Overall the men's accounts demonstrated movement towards taking …
Subjectivities and Silences, Mother and Woman: Theorizing an Experience of Silence as a Speaking Subject
The article theorizes the positioning implications of a specific occasion of silence told through an autobiographical narrative. Positioning theory is discussed, as are modifications to speech act theory. These discussions raise questions concerning the social power relations that enable specific silences. The article reads an account of a mother's silence to argue that that silence may enable subject positions that marginalize or exclude the sil…
Working the Narrative Unconscious: Positioning Theory and Moral Order
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Politicising Mothers: Counter-narratives of Mothering Experience
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Narrative form and the morality of psychology's gendering stories
In this article we read particular fragments of poststructuralist theory to constitute a narrative epistemological position that enables us to question the morality of psychology's narratives of gendered subjectivities. Drawing on the work of Lyotard (1984) and White (1987) we theorise narrative form as complicit with moral order and the morality of subject positioning. We then question the positioning of a particular woman through a narrative te…
Remembering Embodied Domination: Questions of Critical/Feminist Psy-discourse on the Body
During the 1990s, texts of critical and feminist psychologies challenged taken-for-granted notions of natural, empirical bodies. The implications of these challenges for speaking of embodiment have become increasingly troublesome. Drawing on poststructuralist theories, this paper reads three critical and/or feminist psychological texts to problematize the theoretical constitution of embodiment. These readings are focused on the question of how th…
Weaving cohesive identities: New Zealand women talk as mothers and workers
This exploratory study examines the discourses which construct women as mothers and workers and explores the strategies the women use to weave these sometimes contradictory identities together. Discourse analysis was used to explore the talk of two focus groups of first‐time mothers, all New Zealanders of European descent in stable heterosexual partnerships with babies aged less than six months. The women deployed an intensive mother discourse wh…
A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers
Excusing themselves: Judges’ judgements of qualitative/quality research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methodology can obstruct research momentum at many important junctions along the research path, from funding and institutional approval to publication and social application. This article provides an example of how the dominance of scientific quantitative methodology contributed to the demise of a qualitative study examining judiciary understandings of domestic violence
Protection, manipulation or interference with relationships? Discourse analysis of New Zealand lawyers' talk about supervised access and partner violence
Violence against women within the context of intimate relationships is a complex social problem in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally. Such abuse by men is particularly problematic because of its prevalence, and because of the extent and magnitude of deleterious effects on the health and psychological well‐being of women and children. In New Zealand, the legal system is assumed to play an important role in protecting women and children from…
Staying or returning: Pre‐migration influences on the migration process of German migrants to New Zealand
Changes in migrants' backgrounds and societies sending and receiving migrants might increase adaptation issues and reduce retention. To enhance migrants' well‐being/health and their likelihood of staying it is necessary to gain an understanding of psychological and social factors that contribute to resilience and adaptation. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that investigated the experiences, interpretations and actions of Ger…
Encountering impasses: Yet another story
In turn, I reply here to Kareen Ror Malone’s response to my paper “Sado-Masochism and Feminist Desire: The Other Measure of True Love Bleeds.” The multiple possibilities of recognition and puzzlement that emerge from my reading of “The Impasses of Encounter: Psychoanalysis and Feminism” are fecund; though the space to consider them here is seriously limited. In place of revisiting questions of form and style associated with écriture feminine, or …
Sado-masochism and feminist desire: The other measure of true love bleeds
This paper engages the notion of parallax: the moment of irreconcilable difference, the gap, the tension, in the presentation of things seen from different perspectives. In this case the particular “thing seen” from different perspectives is something like a subject position in which women’s desire is inscribed as sado-masochistic—both in popular accounts of intimate violence and in more academic accounts of feminist textual resistances within th…
Bullying in secondary schools: Through a discursive lens
This paper analyses students’ constructions of bullying from a social constructionist perspective. Interviews were conducted with 24 students at a small semi‐rural secondary school in New Zealand. These were taped, transcribed and a discourse analysis, informed by the work of Foucault, was carried out. It was found that students made sense of bullying by drawing on constructions that included bullying as a consequence of differences and as a form…
Growing Up with Child Sexual Abuse in an Experimental Commune: Making Sense of Narrative Variation
The legitimacy of adult's accounts of child sexual abuse depends on the consistency of the story they tell about this experience. But there are a variety of influences that conspire to create dynamic variation in retrospective accounts of child sexual abuse. In a study of an experimental New Zealand commune called Centrepoint, participants showed considerable variation in accounting for the child sexual abuse that was known to have occurred there…
Narrative Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Addressing Perennial Problems in Quantitative Research
Narrative research can offer insights into perennial methodological problems facing quantitative researchers in the field of child sexual abuse. Using research data from a retrospective, narrative study of 29 adult participants who had spent their childhood in a New Zealand commune in which child sexual abuse was known to have occurred, this article explores four key methodological issues in the field of child sexual abuse research. These include…
The play of metaphor: Shifting positions through autobiographic texts in psychology
This paper contributes to post-crisis, social constructionist psychological literature addressing mainstream psychology’s failure to engage in a relevant way with people’s everyday experiences. We work with a narrative psychology paradigm, focussing specifically on the element of metaphor as a useful way to come to terms with how our ‘selves’ and our interactions with others are sociolinguistically fashioned. We discuss an article by Ian Parker, …
Manufacturing egalitarian injustice: A discursive analysis of the rhetorical strategies used in fathers’ rights websites in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The fathers’ rights movement is a worldwide phenomenon that takes a particular form in our geopolitical region. Responding initially to an apparent judicial preference for mothers to have custody of children, the movement grew alongside, and in resistance to, the women’s movement. In this paper, we analyse how texts of fathers’ rights discourse strategically appropriate egalitarianism in the context of gendered struggles over rights within the nu…
IAnorexic: Haraway’s Cyborg Metaphor as Ethical Methodology
The burgeoning connections between the human body and technology have opened space for disenfranchised “others” to take up alternative lived experience, such as the exclusively online pro-anorexia movement. Haraway’s (1991) cyborg metaphor, characterised by organic/machine hybridisation, speaks to the blurring of the boundaries between taken-for-granted binaries that “other” women and their experiences of their bodies. Through a study of pro-anor…
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