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This chapter explores two cases of bullying at UK universities, one involving a student, the other, a faculty member; in one case, the victim’s response to bullying having been labeled “mentally ill” and in the other, the bullying itself arising as a consequence of such a label. Using institutional ethnography and discourse analysis, the authors analyze the experiences and related texts and show how the reporting of bullying and harassment is reframed as incompetency and emotional vulnerability. Correspondingly, these similar and yet opposing cases are compared, and in the process, key discourses at play within the broader context of UK higher education are unveiled.
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Tosh, J., Golightley, S. (2016). The Caring Professions, Not So Caring?: An Analysis of Bullying and Emotional Distress in the Academy. In: Burstow, B. (eds) Psychiatry Interrogated. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41174-3_8
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