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    ‘Working on a rocky shore’: Micro-moments of positive affect in academic work

    Date
    2019-05-03
    Author
    Gannon, Susanne
    Taylor, Carol
    Adams, Gill
    Donaghue, Helen
    Hannam-Swain, Stephanie
    Harris-Evans, Jean
    Healey, Joan
    Moore, Patricia
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    Gannon, S., Taylor, C., Adams, G., Donaghue, H., Hannam-Swain, S., Harris-Evans, J., Healey, J. and Moore, P. (2019) '‘Working on a rocky shore’: Micro-moments of positive affect in academic work', Emotion, Space and Society, 31, pp. 48-55.
    Abstract
    Neoliberal ideologies, marketization and performative regimes associated with recent reforms in universities have exerted considerable pressure on academic working conditions and subjects in recent years. While analysing these pressures is important, it is also productive to consider the ways in which academics engage in moments of resistance by mobilising resources beyond those of critique. This paper therefore focuses on joy and positive affect in the everyday moments of academic life. It utilises the feminist methodology of collective biography to explore ways of making the restricted spaces of our working day more expansive and finding within them unexpected openings for joy. Our analysis of the stories included in this paper traces the mercurial and ambiguous affective atmospheres of academic work. We suggest that joy is founded upon connections with others, that it arises in different academic spaces and that it can lead to revised knowing of ourselves. We argue that the glimpses of joy evident in this paper provoke affective attunement within the everyday, sensitizing us to other fragments of joy and providing strategies to strengthen that resistance.
    Official URL
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.04.002
    URI
    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/12275
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