Margaret Wetherell
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| workplaces = Open University, University of Auckland
| alma_mater = Bristol University
| thesis_title = Social identification, social influence and group polarisation
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| thesis_year = 1983
| doctoral_advisor = John Turner
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| main_interests = Discourse analysis
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| website = [http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Margaret_Wetherell open.ac.uk/Margaret_Wetherell]
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Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954{{cite web |title= Wetherell, Margaret, 1954- |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83183487.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 1 June 2015 |quote= data sheet (b. 11/24/54) }}) is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
Career
Wetherell worked for 23 years at the Open University, UK from which she retired as Emeritus Professor in 2011. She then took up a part-time post of Professor in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Work
Wetherell has promoted a discursive approach to psychology. Her 1987 book, Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, cowritten with Jonathan Potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other fields (e.g. Wood & Kroger, 2000). While discourse analysis has many different meanings, Wetherell's approach has been quite catholic in line with other anglophone discourse analysts like Gilbert & Mulkay (1984).
Wetherell asserts that social actions and routines are formed within our respective social organizations, and that we can not separate a bodies, talk, and text.{{Cite journal |last=Gravel-Patry |first=Fanny |date=May 3, 2020 |title=Meaning, Feeling, Doing: Affective Image Operations and Feminist Literatures of Care on Instagram |url=https://doi.org/10.7273/dz99-v904 |website=Electronic Book Review|doi=10.7273/dz99-v904 }}
In 2010/11 she led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Selected bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Potter | first2 = Jonathan | last3 = Stringer | first3 = Peter | author-link2 = Jonathan Potter | title = Social texts and context: literature and social psychology | publisher = Routledge & Kegan Paul | location = London Boston | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780710095534 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Potter | first2 = Jonathan | author-link2 = Jonathan Potter| title = Discourse and social psychology: beyond attitudes and behaviour | publisher = SAGE | location = London Newbury Park, California | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780803980563 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Sapsford | first2 = Roger | last3 = Still | first3 = Arthur | last4 = Miell | first4 = Dorothy | last5 = Stevens | first5 = Richard | author-link4 = Dorothy Miell | title = Theory and social psychology | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761958390 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Miell | first2 = Dorothy | author-link2 = Dorothy Miell | title = Doing social psychology | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | location = London Thousand Oaks, California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761960492 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/doingsocialpsych0000unse }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Miell | first2 = Dorothy | last3 = Sapsford | first3 = Roger | last4 = Still | first4 = Arthur | last5 = Stevens | first5 = Richard | author-link2 = Dorothy Miell | title = Theory and social psychology | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761958390 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Taylor | first2 = Stephanie | last3 = Yates | first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Taylor | first2 = Stephanie | last3 = Yates | first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse as data: a guide for analysis | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971580 }}
- {{cite book | last = Wetherell | first = Margaret | title = Affect and emotion a new social science understanding | publisher = SAGE | location = Los Angeles London | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780857028570 }}
= Book chapters =
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Still | first2 = Arthur | contribution = Realism and relativism | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Sapsford | editor-first2 = Roger | editor-last3 = Still | editor-first3 = Arthur | editor-last4 = Miell | editor-first4 = Dorothy | editor-last5 = Stevens | editor-first5 = Richard | editor-link4 = Dorothy Miell | title = Theory and social psychology | pages = 99–114 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761958390 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Still | first2 = Arthur | contribution = Discourse analysis and the identification of interpretative repertoires | editor-last1 = Antaki | editor-first1 = Charles | title = Analysing everyday explanation: a casebook of methods | pages = 168–183 | publisher = SAGE | location = London Newbury Park, California | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780803981409 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Edley | first2 = Nigel | contribution = Gender practices: steps in the analysis of men and masculinities | editor-last1 = Henwood | editor-first1 = Karen | editor-last2 = Griffin | editor-first2 = Christine | editor-last3 = Phoenix | editor-first3 = Ann | editor-link1 = Karen Henwood | editor-link3 = Ann Phoenix | title = Standpoints and differences: essays in the practice of feminist psychology | pages = 165–173 | publisher = SAGE | location = London Thousand Oaks, California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761954446 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | contribution = Editor's introduction, Part one: foundations and building blocks | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Taylor | editor-first2 = Stephanie | editor-last3 = Yates | editor-first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | pages = 9–13 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | contribution = Themes in discourse analysis: the case of Diana | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Taylor | editor-first2 = Stephanie | editor-last3 = Yates | editor-first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | pages = 14–28 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | contribution = Editor's introduction, Part three: minds, selves and sense making | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Taylor | editor-first2 = Stephanie | editor-last3 = Yates | editor-first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | pages = 186–197 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Potter | first2 = Jonathan | author-link2 = Jonathan Potter | contribution = Unfolding discourse analysis | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Taylor | editor-first2 = Stephanie | editor-last3 = Yates | editor-first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | pages = 198–209 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | contribution = Debates in discourse research | editor-last1 = Wetherell | editor-first1 = Margaret | editor-last2 = Taylor | editor-first2 = Stephanie | editor-last3 = Yates | editor-first3 = Simeon J. | title = Discourse theory and practice: a reader | pages = 380–399 | publisher = SAGE in association with the Open University | series = D843 Course: Discourse Analysis | location = London Thousand Oaks California | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780761971566 | postscript = .}}
= Journal articles =
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Potter | first2 = Jonathan | last3 = Stiven | first3 = Hilda | author-link2= Jonathan Potter | title = Unequal egalitarianism: a preliminary study of discourses concerning gender and employment opportunities | journal = British Journal of Social Psychology | volume = 26 | issue = 1 | pages = 59–71 | doi = 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1987.tb00761.x | date = March 1987 }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | title = Positioning and interpretative repertoires: conversation analysis and post-structuralism in dialogue | journal = Discourse & Society | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 387–412 | doi = 10.1177/0957926598009003005 | date = July 1998 | s2cid = 145411889 | url = http://oro.open.ac.uk/24353/2/Positioning_and_interpretative.pdf }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | title = Beyond binaries | journal = Theory & Psychology | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 399–406 | doi = 10.1177/0959354399093009 | date = June 1999 | s2cid = 220400917 }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Wetherell | first1 = Margaret | last2 = Edley | first2 = Nigel | title = Negotiating hegemonic masculinity: imaginary positions and psycho-discursive practices | journal = Feminism & Psychology | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 335–356 | doi = 10.1177/0959353599009003012 | date = August 1999 | s2cid = 145350243 | url = http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4025/1/186657_4318%20Edley%20PostPrint.pdf }}
Further reading
- {{cite book | last1 = Gilbert | first1 = G. Nigel | last2 = Mulkay | first2 = Michael | title = Opening Pandora's box: a sociological analysis of scientists' discourse | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780521274302 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Wood | first1 = Linda A. | last2 = Kroger | first2 = Rolf O. | title = Doing discourse analysis: methods for studying action in talk and text | publisher = SAGE | location = Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780803973510 }}
References
External links
- [http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Margaret_Wetherell Profile page: Margaret Wetherell] Open University
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