The Emotional Politics of Research Collaboration

Bibliographic Data

ID19942828
EditorsGabriele Griffin, Annelie Bränström-Öhman, Hildur Kalman (0000-0003-1666-0639)
Year2013
Pages171
Publication date2013-07-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe emotional politics of research collaboration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203427446
OpenAlexW265670299
Open LibraryOL34613323M
ISBN9780203427446
LanguageEN
Citations received9

"Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains. However, there has been little research on the processes of such collaborations, particularly their affective dimensions. These, as this volume demonstrates and as researchers know well, are highly important, yet mostly not directly engaged with when scientists work together, even though they are experienced by everybody involved. This volume is the first to consider questions such as how the naming of projects impacts on their accompanying "affect-scapes," the policing or disciplining of emotions in research collaborations, their accompanying tensions and how these might be managed, and the challenges to trust between scientists that such collaborations present. Drawing on theories of affect and literature on collaboration, as well as on the contributors' experiences of being involved in large-scale research projects, the volume also importantly deals directly with some of the key emotions that occur during research collaborations such as blame, elation, frustration, alienation and belonging, and suggests some ways in which one might engage productively with the affective dimensions of research collaboration"

Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Feminism and science · Féminisme et sciences · Gender Studies · General · Psychological aspects · Recherche · Research · Social Science