Open Call Special Issue: Digital Tecnologies and well-being: the perspective of the Sociology of Markets
Dra. Marcia da Silva Mazon (UFSC/ Florianópolis, Brasil)
Dra. Elaine da Silveira Leite (UFPel/ Pelotas, Brasil)
Deadline: July, 30th, 2024. *Access TOMO website to read the guidelines for authors.
Publication expected for 2025
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It is increasingly common for discussions about behavior and emotions to evoke mental health issues. The reinforcement of psi theories and practices and the strengthening of the pharmaceutical’s and hapinnes’ industries (Cf. Illouz) contributed to the semantic spread of the concept of “mental health”. The more people talk albout mental health, the more it is naturalized in discussions regarding well-being to pathologies. This Special Issue welcomes contributions that discuss this growing association among “mental health, behaviour and emotions” by using theories from Illouz, Bourdieu, Foucault and others. It also welcomes papers that explore how pleasure, feelings and emotions affect and provide moral accommodation to different markets focusing on the dilemmas regarding new configurations of mental health based on the new digital social order. Therefore, we welcome submissions that explore multiple aspects related to the transformations of the mental health’s definitions and the respective markets that accompany them; We particularly invite papers which develop an intersection between the sociology of health and the sociology of emotions, demonstrating how emotions are operationalized in the Affective Capitalism, especially those marked by the advent of digital technologies, that lead to mental health issues, bringing suffering, and affecting the interaction of social agents in several contexts.
