The emotional politics of research collaboration
By: Edited by Gabriele Griffin, Annelie Bränström-Öhman, and Hildur Kalman
Contributors: Bränström Öhman, Annelie, editor
Series: Routledge advances in research methods -- 7
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780415832502; 9780203427446
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research; Feminism and science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Psychological aspects; Research
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.