Boundary management, interplexity, and nostalgia: Managing marginal identities in public health working

McMurray, R; Pullen, A

Boundary management, interplexity, and nostalgia: Managing marginal identities in public health working

McMurray, R Pullen, A

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Publisher:: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal of Public Administration, 2008, 31 (9), pp. 1058 - 1078
Issue Date:: 2008-01

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dc.contributor.author	McMurray, R	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pullen, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Public Administration, 2008, 31 (9), pp. 1058 - 1078	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article explores identity dynamics in public health working at the evel of the institutional identity ascribed to public health professionals, and the identity work that public health workers perform. Drawing on focus group research with school nurses and community midwives in England, the article identifies two important but neglected areas for interrogating public health workers identity work: boundary management and interplexity. We suggest that school nurses and community midwives do identity work from marginal positions: positions that exist in the shadow of bio-medicine, but from which new strands of identity are performed in spaces of micro-emancipation. However, while new strands of identity are revealed through individual performance, the very marginality of these professionals in terms of institutional, conceptual and physical resources are shown to prevent development of sustainable public health discourses. On this basis, we suggest that marginal professions might seek self-protection from dominance in nostalgia for modernity.	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group	en_US
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Abstract:

This article explores identity dynamics in public health working at the evel of the institutional identity ascribed to public health professionals, and the identity work that public health workers perform. Drawing on focus group research with school nurses and community midwives in England, the article identifies two important but neglected areas for interrogating public health workers identity work: boundary management and interplexity. We suggest that school nurses and community midwives do identity work from marginal positions: positions that exist in the shadow of bio-medicine, but from which new strands of identity are performed in spaces of micro-emancipation. However, while new strands of identity are revealed through individual performance, the very marginality of these professionals in terms of institutional, conceptual and physical resources are shown to prevent development of sustainable public health discourses. On this basis, we suggest that marginal professions might seek self-protection from dominance in nostalgia for modernity.

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