Maree Martinussen

“Do our diversities count?” Collaborative reflections on dwelling in academe’s intersectional shadowlands

R Lahiri-Roy, M Martinussen

Journal article  |  2023  |  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

The promotion of equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives has become routine within Anglophone universities in the Global North..

Affective enactments of class: attuning to events, practice, capacity

Dianne Mulcahy, Maree Martinussen

Journal article  |  2022  |  DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION

Based on empirical research with working-class students studying in Australian universities, this article frames class as a struct..

Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education

Dianne Mulcahy, Maree Martinussen

Journal article  |  2022  |  CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION

This article explores the role of affect in addressing the advantage conventionally accorded to high socio-economic status (SES) i..

Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women

Maree Martinussen, Margaret Wetherell

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Feminist cultural studies researchers have produced a rich body of work showing how postfeminism and therapy cultures pervade a ra..

Researching Identities as Affective Discursive Practices

Octavia Calder-Dawe, Maree Martinussen

Book Chapter  |  2021

The chapters in this collection explore approaches behind these themes, followed by a close look at their methodological implicati..

Looking on the bright side: Positivity discourse, affective practices and new femininities

Octavia Calder-Dawe, Margaret Wetherell, Maree Martinussen, Alex Tant

Journal article  |  2021  |  FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY

From policy to personal practice, injunctions to harness the positive effects of positive affects are pulsing through global emoti..

Reason, Season, or Life? Heterorelationality and the Limits of Intimacy between Women Friends

Maree Martinussen

Journal article  |  2019  |  SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE

Studies of personal life over the past three decades have provided rich accounts of new forms of togetherness, with some pointing ..

Just being and being bad: Female friendship as a refuge in neoliberal times

Maree Martinussen, Margaret Wetherell, Virginia Braun

Journal article  |  2019  |  FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY

Those investigating neoliberal and postfeminist subjectivities have argued that continuous self-improvement and self-surveillance ..

Affect, practice and contingency: critical discursive psychology and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Maree Martinussen, Margaret Wetherell

Journal article  |  2019  |  SUBJECTIVITY

This article intersperses Sedgwick’s analysis of paranoid theory and critical discursive psychology, focusing in particular on too..

Critical social psychology and interdisciplinary studies of personal life: Greater than the sum of its parts

Maree Martinussen

Journal article  |  2019  |  SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS

Singleness, parenting, sexual practices, sibling rivalries, through to meal times, investigating how intimacies and personal lives..