Researching with Feeling: The Emotional Aspects of Social and Organizational Research

ISBN-13: 9780415644365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str.

Opis

This book illuminates the emotional processes of doing social and organizational research, and the implications of this for the outcomes of research. With contributions from leading academics and research practitioners, it addresses the significant issue of the sometimes intense emotional experiences involved in doing research and the implications it has for the theory and practice of social research. Topics include: power relations; psycho-social explanations of researcher emotions; paradoxical relations with research participants and the sometimes disturbing data that is gained; research supervision; gender; publishing, undergoing vivas and presenting at conferences.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Why Should Researchers be Interested in their Feelings?  2. Recognising Research as an Emotional Journey  3. Negotiating Identities: Fluidity, Diversity and Researcher Emotion  4. Emotionally Charged Research – Engaging with the Politics of Action Research  5. The Not-so Dark Side of Emotions: Anger as a Resource in Research Apprenticeship  6. A Psycho Social Approach to Researching With Feeling  7. The emotional experience of research supervision  8. Not researching where we grew up  9. Tales from post-field work: Writing Up; Vivas; Conferences; and Publications  10. Researching with Feeling: The Case for an Affective Paradigm in Social and Organisational Research  11. Authorial Confessions: Revealing Our Own Hands