Academic Emotions
Feeling the Institution

Academics are passionate actors; their emotions – their pain and pleasure – act as a barometer of the ethical health of institutions.

Katie Barclay (Author)

9781108964944, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2021

75 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.136 kg

The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

1. Introduction
2. Being Institutionalised
3. Finding Place
4. Discipline
5. Creativity and Joy
6. Suffering Bodies and the Absent Norm
7. Conclusion
References.

Subject Areas: Universities [JNMN], Education [JN], Psychology: emotions [JMQ], Sociology [JHB], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Social & cultural history [HBTB], History [HB]