ABSTRACT

The Communication Theory of Resilience illustrates the material-discursive and adaptive-transformative processes that underline resilience, yet research has frequently underemphasized the physical enactment and embodied movements that assist in sustaining, recovering, and growing after a setback or loss. Drawing on communication theorizing and chronic illness literature, this study conceptualizes embodied resilience through three subprocesses: sustaining, foregrounding unproductive behaviors, and entanglement with biomedical actants. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 20 U.S.-based women undergoing infertility treatment, I investigate the ways in which these women remained resilient through embodied losses (i.e. miscarriages, failed treatment) and embodied pain (i.e. bruises). This study advances ontological, material, and neoliberal subjugations of resilience theorizing through the identification of intrapersonal and relational factors that delimit and enhance resilience during infertility. Family, friends, and healthcare professionals looking to enrich the resilience of an infertility patient can benefit from these findings and learn new methods to promote resilience within infertility patients.

摘要

复原力的传播理论说明了强调复原力的物质话语和适应性变革过程，但研究经常低估了有助于在挫折或损失后维持、恢复和成长的物理制定和具体运动。本研究借鉴传播理论和慢性病文献，通过三个子过程概念化体现的复原力：维持、突出非生产性行为和与生物医学行为体的纠缠。通过对 20 名正在接受不孕症治疗的美国女性进行深入、半结构化的采访，我调查了这些女性通过具体损失（即流产、治疗失败）和具体疼痛（即瘀伤）保持弹性的方式。本研究推进本体论、材料、和新自由主义通过识别限制和增强不孕症期间的恢复力的内在和关系因素来理论化恢复力的新自由主义征服。希望增强不孕症患者复原力的家人、朋友和医疗保健专业人员可以从这些发现中受益，并学习新的方法来提高不孕症患者的复原力。