Depression A Public Feeling

Name: Depression A Public Feeling
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ISBN: 9780822352389

ISBN-10: 0822352389

ISBN-13: 9780822352389

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ann Cvetkovich

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InDepression: A Public Feelings Project, Ann Cvetkovich seeks to understand why intellectuals, activists, professionals, and other privileged people struggle with feelings of hopeless and self-loathing. She focuses particularly on those in academia, where the pressure to succeed and the desire to find space for creative thinking and alternative worlds bump up against the harsh conditions of a ruthlessly competitive job market, the shrinking power of the humanities, and the corporatization of the university. In her candid memoir, Cvetkovich describes what it was like to move through the days as she finished her dissertation, started a job, and then completed a book for tenure. Turning to…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Depression Journals (A Memoir)


Going Down


Swimming


The Return


Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method



A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay)



Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models



From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression



The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index