Positioning emotion through the body and bodywork: a reflection through nursing as craft
by Veronica James
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion (IJWOE), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009

Abstract: Using the metaphor of an odyssey, this paper connects a personal career trajectory with body and bodywork to describe three different eras in the use and development of emotion work. Sennett's (2008) analysis of 'Craftsman' as a problem solving, problem finding community informs the sense of career. The first era of 1970s and 1980s, uses feminism and Marxism to interrogate the subjective problem of feeling 'wrung out' during a participant observation study in a hospice. The second era, the 1990s, connects organisational development with emotion. The third era, from the millennium, is a re-engagement with clinical practice, when the 'problem found' was to understand women's attendance for cervical smears. Synthesis of the odyssey suggests that emotion can be viewed from a number of different positions – as subjective experience, methodology, legacy, craft, bridge and moral framework – and that each has relevance and application in different circumstances.

Online publication date: Wed, 13-Jan-2010

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