Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments

Original research
par
Slemon, Allie et al

Date de publication

2024

Géographie

Canada

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Oui

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Oui

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

This research examines how nurses' talk and institutional texts discursively construct social justice within the institutional context of the emergency department, and how such discourses shape the enactment of social justice within nursing practice.

Constatations/points à retenir

This analysis identified one overarching discursive pattern, in which social justice was discursively constructed through a hegemonic distributive paradigm, yet also resisted through nurses' conceptualization and enactment of a systemic social justice paradigm that facilitated their recognition and remediation of inequities. This central discursive pattern is explored through three exemplars of nurses' enactment of social justice as resistance: triage, harm reduction, and care planning. 

La conception ou méthodologie de recherche

Guided by Iris Marion Young's theorizing of distributive and systemic social justice paradigms, this Foucauldian discourse analysis draws on emergency department nurses' talk (N = 25 interviews) and institutional documents (N = 27).

Mots clés

About nurses
Barriers and enablers
Chronic disease
Equity
Harm reduction
Hospitals
Illegal drugs
Indigenous
Overdose
Policy/Regulatory
Stigma
Transitions in care/treatment