Description
Traditional research discourses continue to present academic work as rational, detached, objective and free from emotion. This volume argues that the presentation of research as 'objective' conceals the subject positions of researchers, and the emotional imperatives that often drive research. The collection engages with the emotional experiences of researchers working in different traditions, contexts and sites, and demonstrates their centrality in data production, analysis, dissemination and ethical practice.
This edited volume offers contributions from a range of well-established and early career scholars who argue for an emotional rebellion in the academic world. The authors reflect on their own experiences of research, generously sharing their approach to their craft, and the uncertainties, concerns, enjoyments, and questions it entails. The contributors are based in a range of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences and STEM, and in the museum sector. This provides a unique opportunity for reflection on differences between and similarities across disciplinary boundaries, shedding new light on common problems and opportunities stimulated by emotion in research.
The collection demonstrates how emotion can be valuable and meaningful in the activities of research, reflection and dissemination: offering authenticity to the academic voice, bringing clarity to interpretive biases, producing engaging outputs which connect with diverse readerships, and potentially reshaping disciplinary foundations and relations. Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships will be an invaluable companion for researchers, postgraduate students and other academics with an interest in the emotional elements of conflict, negotiation, relationality and reflexivity, within and beyond the research encounter.
About the Author
Tracey Loughran is Reader in History and Deputy Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain and co-editor (with Gayle Davis) of The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives. Dawn Mannay is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University, UK. Dawn is editor of Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales; and author of Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics.
Reviews
This book for researchers, scholars, and advanced students stems from papers presented at two workshops titled "Emotion and the Researcher," which were cohosted in 2014 at Cardiff University. Contributors in sociology, social geography, psychology, psychotherapy, and healthcare present the emotional experiences of researchers in various contexts in humanities, STEM, social sciences, and even museums. Papers are grouped in sections on reflexivity and research relationships, emotional topographies and research sites, and the final section on subjectivities and subject positions. Each paper contains an abstract overviewing purpose, methodology, findings, originality, and value, plus keywords. Some topics covered include researching empathy, interviewing marginalized mothers about trauma, bereavement research, and the role of emotion in the development of museum exhibitions. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787146129
Author Tracey Loughran
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 564g
This edited volume offers contributions from a range of well-established and early career scholars who argue for an emotional rebellion in the academic world. The authors reflect on their own experiences of research, generously sharing their approach to their craft, and the uncertainties, concerns, enjoyments, and questions it entails. The contributors are based in a range of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences and STEM, and in the museum sector. This provides a unique opportunity for reflection on differences between and similarities across disciplinary boundaries, shedding new light on common problems and opportunities stimulated by emotion in research.
The collection demonstrates how emotion can be valuable and meaningful in the activities of research, reflection and dissemination: offering authenticity to the academic voice, bringing clarity to interpretive biases, producing engaging outputs which connect with diverse readerships, and potentially reshaping disciplinary foundations and relations. Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships will be an invaluable companion for researchers, postgraduate students and other academics with an interest in the emotional elements of conflict, negotiation, relationality and reflexivity, within and beyond the research encounter.
About the Author
Tracey Loughran is Reader in History and Deputy Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain and co-editor (with Gayle Davis) of The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives. Dawn Mannay is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University, UK. Dawn is editor of Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales; and author of Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics.
Reviews
This book for researchers, scholars, and advanced students stems from papers presented at two workshops titled "Emotion and the Researcher," which were cohosted in 2014 at Cardiff University. Contributors in sociology, social geography, psychology, psychotherapy, and healthcare present the emotional experiences of researchers in various contexts in humanities, STEM, social sciences, and even museums. Papers are grouped in sections on reflexivity and research relationships, emotional topographies and research sites, and the final section on subjectivities and subject positions. Each paper contains an abstract overviewing purpose, methodology, findings, originality, and value, plus keywords. Some topics covered include researching empathy, interviewing marginalized mothers about trauma, bereavement research, and the role of emotion in the development of museum exhibitions. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787146129
Author Tracey Loughran
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 564g
