Such Cold, Dispassionate Terms Fail Us
Reading Hansard as an ‘Archive of Feelings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6309191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda Leibel (0000-0002-5654-5312, School of Liberal Education, University of Lethbridge , 4401 University Drive W., Lethbridge, T1K 3M4 , Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 328-349 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsad006 |
| OpenAlex | W4360938675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article proposes a distinctly affective methodological approach to Hansard transcripts using feminist affect theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive methodologies. Expanding the ‘toolkit’ of analysis available to parliamentary and legislative researchers to understand the political worlds we inhabit, I contend scholarship engaging with Hansard is shaped—but not limited—by the format and editorial decisions that inform its publication. Feminist scholarship on affect enables both (i) generative methodological approaches to so-called limitations of Hansard, and (ii) empowers a critical advancement of how researchers can engage Hansard as data. Considering the Hansard corpus as a process (rather than a thing) enables analyses to begin not with the question of can affect and emotion be present in transcripts, but rather how can emotion and affect proliferate throughout a genre designed and mediated in such a way as to occlude these emotional and affective speech patterns. I conclude by offering methodological strategies through an exploration of research vignettes drawn from my work with Canadian provincial Hansards
Affect (linguistics · Epistemology · Feeling · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Communication · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Bureaucratic Passions
Degrees of Emotion
How (Not) to Disappear Completely
Affective atmospheres
Situating Speech
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates
Colonial archives and the arts of governance
Negotiating difference in political contexts
Affective Economies
Ethnographies of parliament
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |