Methods of Exploring Emotions

331 Pages·2015·1.535 MB·English

by  Helena Flam, Jochen Kleres

Methods of Exploring Emotions
Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how
to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological,
psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches. Bringing together the
emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue methodo­
logical debate.
The volume offers entrancing short essays, richly illustrated with exam­
ples and anecdotes, that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue
emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals,
historical documents, and surveys. The contributors are respectful of those
being researched and are mindful of the effects of their own feelings on
the conclusions. The book thus touches upon the ethics of research in
vivid first person accounts.
Methods are notoriously difficult to teach—this collection fills the gap
between dry methods books and students’ need to know more about the
actual research practice.
Helena Flam received Fil.Kand. from Lunds Universitet, Sweden, and her
PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, US. Since 1993 she has been
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. She
has published on emotions, social movements, organizations, and dis­
crimination. She is a founder and a past convener of the European
Research Network on Emotions affiliated with the European Sociological
Association.
Jochen Kleres, PhD, has used emotions analysis in his research on civil
society, AIDS, migration, and organizations. He is currently pursuing a
post­ doctoral project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Presently
serving as the convener of the European Research Network on Emotions,
he is the author of the very first methods text discussing how to identify
and analyze emotions in autobiographic narratives.
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Methods of Exploring
Emotions
Edited by Helena Flam and
Jochen Kleres
First published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Methods of exploring emotions / edited by Helena Flam,
Jochen Kleres.
pages cm
1. Emotions. 2. Emotions–Social aspects. I. Flam, Helena.
II. Kleres, Jochen.
BF531.M48 2015
152.4072–dc23 2014042042
ISBN: 978-1-138-79869-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75653-0 (ebk)
Typeset in Baskerville
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Contents
List of figures ix
List of tables x
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xx
1 Introduction: methods of exploring emotions 1
HELENA FLAM
Part I
Emotions—a legitimate object of study 23
2 Using fiction as sociology: how to analyze emotions
with the help of novels 25
HELMUT KUzMICS
3 “It’s all in the plot”: narrative explorations of
work­r elated emotions 36
YIANNIS GABRIEL AND EDA ULUS
4 “Studying up”: emotions and finance decisions 46
JoCELYN PIxLEY
5 Exploring emotion discourse 57
TAMAR KATRIEL
6 The rhetoric of emotions 67
BARBARA CzARNIAwSKA
vi Contents
Part II
Eliciting emotions through interviews 79
7 Researching dark emotions: eliciting stories of envy 81
ISHAN JALAN
8 Emotional expertise: emotions and the expert
interview 90
JoCHEN KLERES
9 Dialogic introspection: a method for exploring
emotions in everyday life and experimental contexts 101
THoMAS BURKART AND JENNY wEGGEN
Part III
Observing emotions in self and others 113
10 How do we know what they feel? 115
ÅSA wETTERGREN
11 Emotional insights in the field 125
STINA BERGMAN BLIx
12 Emotions: the discovery of an object and the
development of a method 134
DENISE VAN DAM AND JEAN NIzET
13 Emotional alliances in bureaucratic encounters 144
ALBERTo MARTíN PéREz
14 Can you feel your research results? How to deal with
and gain insights from emotions generated during
oral history interviews 153
BENNo GAMMERL
15 when your data make you cry 163
DEBoRAH GoULD
16 Funerary emotions: categorizing data from a
fieldwork diary 172
JULIEN BERNARD
Contents vii
17 Researching “emotional geographies” in schools: the
value of critical ethnography 181
MICHALINoS zEMBYLAS
Part IV
Speaking emotions 191
18 Indexing anger and aggression: from language
ideologies to linguistic affect 193
H. JULIA EKSNER
19 Emotion and conceptual metaphor 206
CRISTINA SoRIANo
20 The intensification and commodification of emotion:
declarations of intimacy and bonding in college field
trips to the Global South 215
GADA MAHRoUSE
Part V
Emotions in visuals 227
21 Visuals and emotions in social movements 229
HELENA FLAM AND NICoLE DoERR
22 Evoking emotions: the visual construction of fear and
compassion 240
FRANCESCA FALK
Part VI
Documented emotions 247
23 “My heart belongs to daddy”: emotion and narration
in early modern self­n arratives 249
CLAUDIA JARzEBowSKI
24 How to detect emotions? The cancer taboo and its
challenge to a history of emotions 259
BETTINA HITzER
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25 The geography and temporality of emotions 268
HELENA FLAM
Part VII
Surveying emotions 283
26 Triangulation as data integration in emotion research 285
SYLVIA TERPE
27 Missing values: surveying protest emotions 294
DUNYA VAN TRooST
Index 306
Figures
4.1 Post­ Keynesian economics—determinants of the state of
expectation 49
21.1 Banksy’s flower thrower 233
21.2 Image of an SVP election campaign poster 237
22.1 Giovanni Bellini, polyptych of St Vincent Ferrer 242