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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that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents, and surveys.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. This page intentionally left blank Methods of Exploring Emotions Edited by Helena Flam and Jochen Kleres First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 selection and editorial matter, Helena Flam and Jochen Kleres; individual chapters, the contributors The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 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 viii Contents 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
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