Ashley Frawley - Constructing a Crisis

Ashley Frawley is a sociologist at the University of Kent, a columnist at Compact Magazine, and the COO of Sublation Media. She joins me to talk about her new paper “Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs.” The paper explores how the narrative of a mental health crisis amongst UK university students was created and perpetuated, and what this teaches us about the expansion of mental health discourse and psychological categorization more generally.

You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Links:

• Frawley et al., “Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs”

• Frawley, et al., “Mental Health, Higher Education, and Regulatory Capitalism: Steering not Rowing.”

• Ashley Frawley, Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age

• Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance

• Kenan Malik, The Meaning of Race

• Cabanas & Illouz, Manufacturing Happy Citizens