Emotional Labour in Oral History Research
The Hidden Toll
- 234 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.
Uniquely, this volume draws on oral historians' personal accounts of conducting sensitive research and assesses the applicability of the term emotional labour to this work. It examines how oral historians may perform emotional labour, highlighting the often-hidden emotional toll it takes on them. This volume considers how the emotionally taxing implications of conducting sensitive research may be exacerbated or mitigated by the institutional relations and contexts in which the researcher works. The authors evaluate recommendations from related disciplinary fields for ways of supporting researchers and consider how an ethics of care can be fostered in local research environments. Emotional Labour in Oral History Research engages critically with theories of emotion, conceptualisations of emotional labour, questions of power and positionality, an ethics of care and debate on the impact of neoliberal ideas and policies on the higher education sector.
This book will be of interest to all those using oral history to conduct sensitive research in all locations and at all career stages, including doctoral students, academics new to oral history, established oral historians, community-based oral historians and qualitative researchers in adjacent disciplines.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- 1 Introduction – what this book is about and how we came to write it
- 2 A turn to emotion and affect in the social sciences and humanities
- 3 Emotional labour and emotion work
- 4 Emotionality in oral history research
- 5 Positionality and research relations
- 6 Research contexts, cultures and communities
- 7 Precarity and hope labour in oral history research
- 8 Time, affect and care
- 9 Towards a culture of care in oral history research
- Index