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Papers by Jennifer Harding

Research paper thumbnail of Oral History in UK Doctoral Research: Extent of Use and Researcher Preparedness for Emotionally Demanding Work

Research paper thumbnail of Emotions in Late Modernity

Emotions in Late Modernity, 2019

Introduction 8 Emotions across history 10 Classical emotions 10 Modern emotions 11 Late modernity... more Introduction 8 Emotions across history 10 Classical emotions 10 Modern emotions 11 Late modernity 12 Emotions in late modernity 14 Complexity of emotions, and newly complex emotions 14 Individualised emotions 15 Commodified emotions 16 Mediated emotions 17 Reflexively managed emotions 18 Conclusion 19 Note 20 References 20 vi Contents PART I Emotional complexity and complex understandings of emotions 2 Emotive-cognitive rationality, background emotions and emotion work ÅSA WETTERGREN Introduction 27 Emotion and reason 27 Emotion, action and emotion work 30 Assumptions and implications of the model 32 Emotional regime vs emotive-cognitive frame 33 The Migration Board: procedural correctness 34 Conclusion 37 Notes 38 References 39 3 Conceptualising valences in emotion theories: a sociological approach

Research paper thumbnail of Alliances, Assemblages, and Affects: Three Moments of Building Collective Working-Class Literacies

College Composition & Communication

This article explores how assemblage and affect theories can enable research into the formation o... more This article explores how assemblage and affect theories can enable research into the formation of a collective working-class identity, inclusive of written, print, publication, and organizational literacies through the origins of the Federation of Worker Writer and Community Publishers, an organization that expanded its collectivity as new heritages, ethnicities, and immigrant identities altered the organization’s membership and “class” identity.

Research paper thumbnail of Reimagining Islington: work, memory, place and emotion in a community oral history project

This article reflects on a community oral history project, The Lost Trades of Islington. The proj... more This article reflects on a community oral history project, The Lost Trades of Islington. The project was led and coordinated by Age UK Islington in partnership with Islington Local History Centre and London Metropolitan University. The project aimed to promote wellbeing, social interaction and learning through recalling work and life in the London Borough of Islington from the mid-twentieth century. The article is concerned with how the project framed the narratives of those interviewed and how the narratives re-imagined Islington. It examines the significance of loss and place in the project.

Research paper thumbnail of Emotions : a cultural studies reader

Introduction Part One: Disciplinary Developments I. Culturalist Foundations. Raymond Williams - O... more Introduction Part One: Disciplinary Developments I. Culturalist Foundations. Raymond Williams - On Structure of Feeling. Alison M. Jaggar - Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology. Lawrence Grossberg - Postmodernity and Affect: All Dressed Up with No Place to Go II. Contributions from Cultural Anthropology. Michelle Z. Rosaldo - Towards an Anthropology of Self and Feeling. Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz - Emotion, Discourse, and the Politics of Everyday Life. Jennifer Biddle - Shame III. Sociological Perspectives. Virginia Oelsen and Deborah Bone - Emotions in Rationalizing Organizations: Conceptual Notes from Professional Nursing in the USA. Simon J. Williams - Modernity and the Emotions: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)rational. Ian Burkitt - Powerful Emotions: Power, Government and Opposition in the War on Terror IV. Historical Approaches. Carol Z. Stearns - 'Lord Help Me Walk Humbly': Anger and Sadness in England and America, 1570-1750. Nancy Schnog - Changing Emotions: Moods and the 19th-Century American Woman Writer. Carolyn Kay Steedman - Stories Part Two: Considering Culture V. Confounding Nationhood. Arjun Appadurai - Fear of Small Numbers. Sara Ahmed - The Organization of Hate. Jennifer Harding - Emotional Subjects: Language and Power in Refugee Narratives VI. Transforming the Public. Lauren Berlant - The Intimate Public Sphere. Michael Eric Dyson - Does George W. Bush Care about Black People? Elspeth Probyn - Shaming Theory, Thinking Dis-Connections: Feminism and Reconciliation VII. Popular Arts. R. Darren Gobert - Dramatic Catharsis, Freudian Hysteria and the 'Private Theatre' of Anna O. Linda Williams - Melodrama Revised. E. Deidre Pribram - Cold Comfort: Emotion, Television Detection Dramas, and Cold Case. VIII. Affecting Subjects. Fatima Mernissi - Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems. Denise Riley - Malediction. Judith Butler - Violence, Mourning, Politics. Index

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires. Edited by Lucy Bland and Laura Doan. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1998, 236 pp., $18.00

Research paper thumbnail of HIV infection and aboriginal communities in new South Wales

Critical Public Health, 1990

Trish Fagan is a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service. Sydney. She was interviewed by Jenny Hardi... more Trish Fagan is a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service. Sydney. She was interviewed by Jenny Harding on responses to HIV infection and Aboriginal communities. They particularly discussed educational materials produced by the AMS. The following is an edited version of their conversation.JH How are HIV and AIDS viewed by Aboriginal people in New South Wales?

Research paper thumbnail of Sex and Control: The Hormonal Body

Research paper thumbnail of Misuse of published reports in propaganda

BMJ, 1985

Recurrence of hyperprolactinemia after selective transsphenoidal adenomectomy in women with prola... more Recurrence of hyperprolactinemia after selective transsphenoidal adenomectomy in women with prolactinoma. N EnglJ7 Med 1983;309:280-3. 5 Teasdale G, Thomson JA, Macpherson P. Treatment of prolactinomas with megavoltage radiotherapy.

Research paper thumbnail of Communities in the making: Pedagogic explorations using oral history

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2004

This article discusses two projects supported by the Higher Education Active Community Fund, whic... more This article discusses two projects supported by the Higher Education Active Community Fund, which involved student and staff volunteers in working with local communities and community-based organisations in two London boroughs. Oral history methods were used to investigate and represent the experiences of elderly people living in Borough A and young people who have been in foster care in Borough B and their carers. Both projects involved collecting detailed life stories on video and editing these for exhibition in the public domain. The video for Borough A was to form part of the Council's website, the older people's portal. The video for Borough B was to be used to train people providing professional services to young people in foster care and to involve the young people in filming, editing and producing a soundtrack. The article discusses the aims and context of the two projects and critically reviews the learning experiences involved. It analyses issues raised by volunteering, working with local communities, and attempting to represent marginalised experience. It reflects critically on notions of community and community development and discusses relations between oral history projects and community definition, higher education and society.

Research paper thumbnail of Looking for trouble: exploring emotion, memory and public sociology

This article is a verbatim record of an inaugural lecture, reflecting on twenty years of working ... more This article is a verbatim record of an inaugural lecture, reflecting on twenty years of working at one university. It discusses the ways in which academic inquiry, teaching and community engagement have been linked in specific oral history projects. It considers opportunities for working across disciplinary boundaries. It examines culturalist understandings of emotion and memory and their implications for oral history research.

Research paper thumbnail of Public feeling: the entanglement of emotion and technology in the 2011 riots

This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emo... more This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emotion and media in the 2011 riots in England. It examines the ways in which emotions and media technologies have figured in attempts to explain the motivation and momentum of the riots: in mainstream media, accounts provided by rioters and some academic analyses. It reflects on the advantages of deploying ‘affect’ and ‘assemblage’ in analysis of relations between feeling, technology and acting in the riots.

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education

Teaching in Higher Education, 2021

This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a... more This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants’ oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project in relation to neoliberalism. It discusses publics as ‘emergent’ and various public engagement activities as ‘assemblages’, formed in particular historical and ideological discursive contexts, and reflects critically on the usefulness of these conceptualisations. It also reviews the operation of a potential counterpublic and its implications.

Research paper thumbnail of Public Sociology: Working at the Interstices

The American Sociologist, 2009

The article examines recent debates surrounding public sociology in the context of a UK based Dep... more The article examines recent debates surrounding public sociology in the context of a UK based Department of Applied Social Sciences. Three areas of work within the department form the focus of the article: violence against women and children; community-based oral history projects and health ethics teaching. The article draws on Micheal Burawoy's typology comprising public, policy, professional and critical sociology, and argues that much of the work described in the case studies more often lies somewhere in between, in the interstices, rather than within one or other of the four types. The result is not without its tensions and dilemmas, some of which are identified and explored, notably those arising from attempts to appeal to diverse audiences and meet the sometimes conflicting expectations of each.

Research paper thumbnail of Talking about Homelessness: A teaching and research initiative in East London

Teaching in Higher Education, 2002

This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate st... more This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate students and a lecturer worked as volunteers at a local drop-in centre for homeless men and women, and subsequently conducted 49 life history interviews there. Students were asked to keep a diary, recording field observations and reflections on stories told, and to write a paper based on analysis and interpretation of interview transcripts. They were encouraged to think about relationships between the researcher and researched, and the ways in which accounts of the past are constructed. Overall, the initiative produced several positive outcomes. The lecturer was able to design and conduct an oral history research project, and write academic papers based on original data. Students learned about methodological issues through the process of actually participating in and documenting primary research and experienced working in the voluntary sector. Consequently, they also began to think more broadly about the range of employment possibilities open to them. Ongoing communication and a working relationship was established between university personnel and a local voluntary sector organisation. Drop-in centre staff began to perceive future benefits in working with university staff--in terms of making further use of research skills and access to a pool of potential volunteers.

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing

Sociological Research Online, 2006

This paper considers how different approaches to interviewing and styles of questioning produce d... more This paper considers how different approaches to interviewing and styles of questioning produce different sorts of biographical subjects and accounts. It compares styles of biographical interview (chronological and narrative) and types of question (narrative and explanatory), and presents an approach, which treats the interview as a collaborative co-production primarily concerned with the present and subjectivity, rather than the past and fact. It also considers how biographical interviewing may direct and contain narratives of the self through the subject positions it creates and offers interviewees. Discussion is grounded in reflection on a recent project involving university students in interviewing young people leaving care about their care experiences and making a training video for professionals. The paper highlights the inter-subjective and emotional aspects of interviewing in this context.

Research paper thumbnail of Losing our cool?

Cultural Studies, 2004

Despite constituting a significant area of everyday experience, emotions have rarely been the foc... more Despite constituting a significant area of everyday experience, emotions have rarely been the focus of detailed investigation within cultural studies. This paper makes a case for viewing emotions as social/cultural/political, as well as individual, phenomena and reviews the contributions of cultural theorists to analyses of emotions. To this end, it critically examines Raymond Williams' concept 'structure of feeling', which reintroduces the subjective into the social, and Larry Grossberg's concept 'economy of affect', which seeks to explain how, through affective investments, ideologies are internalized and naturalized. Whilst both theorists provide important conceptual tools, each conceptualization has specific limitations and neither theorist offers detailed analyses of the interrelations, in practice, between individual and social aspects of emotion. The authors seek to build on and extend the insights of Williams and Grossberg and locate emotions in and across specific historical, cultural and political contexts within relations of hegemony and resistance. The authors begin to theorize how emotions are constituted and operate interactively at the level of both individual personal experience and wider social formations/power relations. This paper establishes the groundwork for working towards a genealogy of specific structures of feeling and specific emotional subjects. It is argued that theorizing relations between emotion and power is crucial to this project. The paper discusses ways of theorizing 'emotion and power', and outlines the authors' approach, which, it is suggested, could be further explored in relation to concrete examples.

Research paper thumbnail of Improving the care of asthmatic patients in general practice

Research paper thumbnail of The power of feeling

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2002

Within cultural studies, there has been little detailed investigation of emotions as part of ever... more Within cultural studies, there has been little detailed investigation of emotions as part of everyday personal, cultural and political life. In this article, we argue the need for a cultural studies approach to emotions that focuses in detail on: how emotions are constituted, experienced and managed; what is culturally permissible for specific categories of subjects to express as part of their constitution within contemporary power relations; and the techniques and contexts in and through which the emotional subject is produced. We develop an analytical framework based on a critical review of, first, Michel Foucault's analyses of modern power, discourse and the formation of subjectivity (focusing on `technologies of power' and `technologies of self'), second, Alison Jaggar's conceptualization of `emotional hegemony' and, third, Raymond Williams's conceptualization of `structure of feeling'. We apply this framework to specific examples to demonstrate how e...

Research paper thumbnail of Oral History in UK Doctoral Research: Extent of Use and Researcher Preparedness for Emotionally Demanding Work

Research paper thumbnail of Emotions in Late Modernity

Emotions in Late Modernity, 2019

Introduction 8 Emotions across history 10 Classical emotions 10 Modern emotions 11 Late modernity... more Introduction 8 Emotions across history 10 Classical emotions 10 Modern emotions 11 Late modernity 12 Emotions in late modernity 14 Complexity of emotions, and newly complex emotions 14 Individualised emotions 15 Commodified emotions 16 Mediated emotions 17 Reflexively managed emotions 18 Conclusion 19 Note 20 References 20 vi Contents PART I Emotional complexity and complex understandings of emotions 2 Emotive-cognitive rationality, background emotions and emotion work ÅSA WETTERGREN Introduction 27 Emotion and reason 27 Emotion, action and emotion work 30 Assumptions and implications of the model 32 Emotional regime vs emotive-cognitive frame 33 The Migration Board: procedural correctness 34 Conclusion 37 Notes 38 References 39 3 Conceptualising valences in emotion theories: a sociological approach

Research paper thumbnail of Alliances, Assemblages, and Affects: Three Moments of Building Collective Working-Class Literacies

College Composition & Communication

This article explores how assemblage and affect theories can enable research into the formation o... more This article explores how assemblage and affect theories can enable research into the formation of a collective working-class identity, inclusive of written, print, publication, and organizational literacies through the origins of the Federation of Worker Writer and Community Publishers, an organization that expanded its collectivity as new heritages, ethnicities, and immigrant identities altered the organization’s membership and “class” identity.

Research paper thumbnail of Reimagining Islington: work, memory, place and emotion in a community oral history project

This article reflects on a community oral history project, The Lost Trades of Islington. The proj... more This article reflects on a community oral history project, The Lost Trades of Islington. The project was led and coordinated by Age UK Islington in partnership with Islington Local History Centre and London Metropolitan University. The project aimed to promote wellbeing, social interaction and learning through recalling work and life in the London Borough of Islington from the mid-twentieth century. The article is concerned with how the project framed the narratives of those interviewed and how the narratives re-imagined Islington. It examines the significance of loss and place in the project.

Research paper thumbnail of Emotions : a cultural studies reader

Introduction Part One: Disciplinary Developments I. Culturalist Foundations. Raymond Williams - O... more Introduction Part One: Disciplinary Developments I. Culturalist Foundations. Raymond Williams - On Structure of Feeling. Alison M. Jaggar - Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology. Lawrence Grossberg - Postmodernity and Affect: All Dressed Up with No Place to Go II. Contributions from Cultural Anthropology. Michelle Z. Rosaldo - Towards an Anthropology of Self and Feeling. Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz - Emotion, Discourse, and the Politics of Everyday Life. Jennifer Biddle - Shame III. Sociological Perspectives. Virginia Oelsen and Deborah Bone - Emotions in Rationalizing Organizations: Conceptual Notes from Professional Nursing in the USA. Simon J. Williams - Modernity and the Emotions: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)rational. Ian Burkitt - Powerful Emotions: Power, Government and Opposition in the War on Terror IV. Historical Approaches. Carol Z. Stearns - 'Lord Help Me Walk Humbly': Anger and Sadness in England and America, 1570-1750. Nancy Schnog - Changing Emotions: Moods and the 19th-Century American Woman Writer. Carolyn Kay Steedman - Stories Part Two: Considering Culture V. Confounding Nationhood. Arjun Appadurai - Fear of Small Numbers. Sara Ahmed - The Organization of Hate. Jennifer Harding - Emotional Subjects: Language and Power in Refugee Narratives VI. Transforming the Public. Lauren Berlant - The Intimate Public Sphere. Michael Eric Dyson - Does George W. Bush Care about Black People? Elspeth Probyn - Shaming Theory, Thinking Dis-Connections: Feminism and Reconciliation VII. Popular Arts. R. Darren Gobert - Dramatic Catharsis, Freudian Hysteria and the 'Private Theatre' of Anna O. Linda Williams - Melodrama Revised. E. Deidre Pribram - Cold Comfort: Emotion, Television Detection Dramas, and Cold Case. VIII. Affecting Subjects. Fatima Mernissi - Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems. Denise Riley - Malediction. Judith Butler - Violence, Mourning, Politics. Index

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires. Edited by Lucy Bland and Laura Doan. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1998, 236 pp., $18.00

Research paper thumbnail of HIV infection and aboriginal communities in new South Wales

Critical Public Health, 1990

Trish Fagan is a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service. Sydney. She was interviewed by Jenny Hardi... more Trish Fagan is a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service. Sydney. She was interviewed by Jenny Harding on responses to HIV infection and Aboriginal communities. They particularly discussed educational materials produced by the AMS. The following is an edited version of their conversation.JH How are HIV and AIDS viewed by Aboriginal people in New South Wales?

Research paper thumbnail of Sex and Control: The Hormonal Body

Research paper thumbnail of Misuse of published reports in propaganda

BMJ, 1985

Recurrence of hyperprolactinemia after selective transsphenoidal adenomectomy in women with prola... more Recurrence of hyperprolactinemia after selective transsphenoidal adenomectomy in women with prolactinoma. N EnglJ7 Med 1983;309:280-3. 5 Teasdale G, Thomson JA, Macpherson P. Treatment of prolactinomas with megavoltage radiotherapy.

Research paper thumbnail of Communities in the making: Pedagogic explorations using oral history

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2004

This article discusses two projects supported by the Higher Education Active Community Fund, whic... more This article discusses two projects supported by the Higher Education Active Community Fund, which involved student and staff volunteers in working with local communities and community-based organisations in two London boroughs. Oral history methods were used to investigate and represent the experiences of elderly people living in Borough A and young people who have been in foster care in Borough B and their carers. Both projects involved collecting detailed life stories on video and editing these for exhibition in the public domain. The video for Borough A was to form part of the Council's website, the older people's portal. The video for Borough B was to be used to train people providing professional services to young people in foster care and to involve the young people in filming, editing and producing a soundtrack. The article discusses the aims and context of the two projects and critically reviews the learning experiences involved. It analyses issues raised by volunteering, working with local communities, and attempting to represent marginalised experience. It reflects critically on notions of community and community development and discusses relations between oral history projects and community definition, higher education and society.

Research paper thumbnail of Looking for trouble: exploring emotion, memory and public sociology

This article is a verbatim record of an inaugural lecture, reflecting on twenty years of working ... more This article is a verbatim record of an inaugural lecture, reflecting on twenty years of working at one university. It discusses the ways in which academic inquiry, teaching and community engagement have been linked in specific oral history projects. It considers opportunities for working across disciplinary boundaries. It examines culturalist understandings of emotion and memory and their implications for oral history research.

Research paper thumbnail of Public feeling: the entanglement of emotion and technology in the 2011 riots

This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emo... more This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emotion and media in the 2011 riots in England. It examines the ways in which emotions and media technologies have figured in attempts to explain the motivation and momentum of the riots: in mainstream media, accounts provided by rioters and some academic analyses. It reflects on the advantages of deploying ‘affect’ and ‘assemblage’ in analysis of relations between feeling, technology and acting in the riots.

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education

Teaching in Higher Education, 2021

This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a... more This article discusses an example of public engagement involving university staff and students, a local charity and older residents in a community oral history project. It is based on participants’ oral and written accounts of their involvement. It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project in relation to neoliberalism. It discusses publics as ‘emergent’ and various public engagement activities as ‘assemblages’, formed in particular historical and ideological discursive contexts, and reflects critically on the usefulness of these conceptualisations. It also reviews the operation of a potential counterpublic and its implications.

Research paper thumbnail of Public Sociology: Working at the Interstices

The American Sociologist, 2009

The article examines recent debates surrounding public sociology in the context of a UK based Dep... more The article examines recent debates surrounding public sociology in the context of a UK based Department of Applied Social Sciences. Three areas of work within the department form the focus of the article: violence against women and children; community-based oral history projects and health ethics teaching. The article draws on Micheal Burawoy's typology comprising public, policy, professional and critical sociology, and argues that much of the work described in the case studies more often lies somewhere in between, in the interstices, rather than within one or other of the four types. The result is not without its tensions and dilemmas, some of which are identified and explored, notably those arising from attempts to appeal to diverse audiences and meet the sometimes conflicting expectations of each.

Research paper thumbnail of Talking about Homelessness: A teaching and research initiative in East London

Teaching in Higher Education, 2002

This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate st... more This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate students and a lecturer worked as volunteers at a local drop-in centre for homeless men and women, and subsequently conducted 49 life history interviews there. Students were asked to keep a diary, recording field observations and reflections on stories told, and to write a paper based on analysis and interpretation of interview transcripts. They were encouraged to think about relationships between the researcher and researched, and the ways in which accounts of the past are constructed. Overall, the initiative produced several positive outcomes. The lecturer was able to design and conduct an oral history research project, and write academic papers based on original data. Students learned about methodological issues through the process of actually participating in and documenting primary research and experienced working in the voluntary sector. Consequently, they also began to think more broadly about the range of employment possibilities open to them. Ongoing communication and a working relationship was established between university personnel and a local voluntary sector organisation. Drop-in centre staff began to perceive future benefits in working with university staff--in terms of making further use of research skills and access to a pool of potential volunteers.

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing

Sociological Research Online, 2006

This paper considers how different approaches to interviewing and styles of questioning produce d... more This paper considers how different approaches to interviewing and styles of questioning produce different sorts of biographical subjects and accounts. It compares styles of biographical interview (chronological and narrative) and types of question (narrative and explanatory), and presents an approach, which treats the interview as a collaborative co-production primarily concerned with the present and subjectivity, rather than the past and fact. It also considers how biographical interviewing may direct and contain narratives of the self through the subject positions it creates and offers interviewees. Discussion is grounded in reflection on a recent project involving university students in interviewing young people leaving care about their care experiences and making a training video for professionals. The paper highlights the inter-subjective and emotional aspects of interviewing in this context.

Research paper thumbnail of Losing our cool?

Cultural Studies, 2004

Despite constituting a significant area of everyday experience, emotions have rarely been the foc... more Despite constituting a significant area of everyday experience, emotions have rarely been the focus of detailed investigation within cultural studies. This paper makes a case for viewing emotions as social/cultural/political, as well as individual, phenomena and reviews the contributions of cultural theorists to analyses of emotions. To this end, it critically examines Raymond Williams' concept 'structure of feeling', which reintroduces the subjective into the social, and Larry Grossberg's concept 'economy of affect', which seeks to explain how, through affective investments, ideologies are internalized and naturalized. Whilst both theorists provide important conceptual tools, each conceptualization has specific limitations and neither theorist offers detailed analyses of the interrelations, in practice, between individual and social aspects of emotion. The authors seek to build on and extend the insights of Williams and Grossberg and locate emotions in and across specific historical, cultural and political contexts within relations of hegemony and resistance. The authors begin to theorize how emotions are constituted and operate interactively at the level of both individual personal experience and wider social formations/power relations. This paper establishes the groundwork for working towards a genealogy of specific structures of feeling and specific emotional subjects. It is argued that theorizing relations between emotion and power is crucial to this project. The paper discusses ways of theorizing 'emotion and power', and outlines the authors' approach, which, it is suggested, could be further explored in relation to concrete examples.

Research paper thumbnail of Improving the care of asthmatic patients in general practice

Research paper thumbnail of The power of feeling

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2002

Within cultural studies, there has been little detailed investigation of emotions as part of ever... more Within cultural studies, there has been little detailed investigation of emotions as part of everyday personal, cultural and political life. In this article, we argue the need for a cultural studies approach to emotions that focuses in detail on: how emotions are constituted, experienced and managed; what is culturally permissible for specific categories of subjects to express as part of their constitution within contemporary power relations; and the techniques and contexts in and through which the emotional subject is produced. We develop an analytical framework based on a critical review of, first, Michel Foucault's analyses of modern power, discourse and the formation of subjectivity (focusing on `technologies of power' and `technologies of self'), second, Alison Jaggar's conceptualization of `emotional hegemony' and, third, Raymond Williams's conceptualization of `structure of feeling'. We apply this framework to specific examples to demonstrate how e...