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The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia
Author(s) -
Wijaya Mulya Teguh,
Salvi Francesca,
Gorczynski Paul,
Wells Brown Tanya,
SimsSchouten Wendy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12481
Subject(s) - patriotism , mental health , sociology , indonesian , citizenship , context (archaeology) , neoliberalism (international relations) , gender studies , happiness , ideal (ethics) , state (computer science) , youth studies , politics , social science , psychology , political science , social psychology , law , psychiatry , algorithm , computer science , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Complementing studies on youth mental health that were mainly depoliticised, this article offers a discursive examination of youth mental health in an Indonesian educational context. We argue that subject positions enabled by the discourse of mental health were at odds with dominant constructions of an ideal Indonesian citizen. Drawing upon qualitative data from 22 teachers and 20 students in a junior high school in Indonesia and analyses of educational policies and textbooks, we identified three discourses underpinning the ideal(ised) constructions of young Indonesian citizen, namely, neoliberalism, (masculine) patriotism and (religious) moralism and discussed how these inhibited youth mental health.