“Working Out” Emotions. Analyzing Labor and the Difference Ethnography Makes

Autor(en)

Helen Ahner, Carla Freeman

Abstrakt

In this paper, we analyze the multiple connections between working and feeling, referring to ethnographic case studies from Germany and the Caribbean.We develop the concept of "working out" emotions, which refers to (1) the way in which people interpret, shape, cultivate, and process emotions in a meaningful way, (2) the specific embodied practices that generate emotions and bring forth (gendered) bodies, and (3) the ways in which academic work also functions as a form of emotion work. Following our interlocutors Claire and Julia, two fitness instructors, we argue that working on and with emotions can be not only exploitative and exhausting, but also enjoyable and empowering.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

Journal

Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft

Band

49

Seiten

115-137

Anzahl der Seiten

23

ISSN

0340-613X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2023.49.1.114

Publikationsdatum

01-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

605004 Kulturwissenschaft

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

History, Linguistics and Language

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/b7e2f0d1-70dc-4000-8907-ebf67c93ac14