Affective labor and alt-ac careers / edited by Lee Skallerup Bessette.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bessette, Lee Skallerup, 1977- editor.

Series:

Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia Series

Rethinking careers, rethinking academia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teacher-administrator relationships.

College administrators--Rating of.

College administrators.

Affective education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022]

Summary:

"In her groundbreaking work The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983), the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild described "emotional labor management" as follows: "to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others." An example would be someone working in customer relations, who must keep calm and be pleasant even when dealing with someone who is irate. While scholars like Sarah Ahmed and bell hooks have explored the affective realm when it comes to teaching and being a professor, there is less about the experience of those working in non-teaching areas of academia-"alt-ac." The purpose of this volume is to allow an opportunity for those in alt-ac careers to examine and share their affective experiences in their roles in technology, administration, research, and academic support services and as librarians, academic advisors, and writing center instructors-among others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Lee Skallerup Bessette

"Why would you want to do that?": Managing desire for alt-ac work / Traci Freeman

What's love got to do with it? / Melissa Gagleish

Affective allyship: Alt-ac identity and political work in higher education / Grace Pollock

When is an academic not an academic? embracing nontraditional academics in academia / Nicole Papaioannou

You're OK, I'm always OK: Educational development and emotional labor / Martha Diede

Plays well with others: Practicing emotional labor in the writing center / Karen Rosenberg

The difficulties of removing the pink collar: Affective labor and educational development / Lindsay Bernhagen and Emily O. Gravett

Affective labor and the balancing act for women in academic technology / Celeste Tuòng Vy Sharpe and Carly J. Born

Emotional labor in open access librarianship / Jennifer Hodl Solomon and Rebekah Kati

Telling alternate stories: Academic advising, student fear, and living out parallel plans / Elizabeth Lundberg

Both student and employee: Uncovering the affective labor of supervising student staff / Daniel Dale

Leaning toward joy: Affective labor, ADHD, and being alt-ac / Matthew J. Trybus with Emily O. Gravett

Honoring others by honoring ourselves: Affective labor and mentoring programs / Leeann Hunter

More denial, more problems / Deborah Maron

Conclusion / Lee Skallerup Bessette.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bessette, Lee Skallerup Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

ISBN:

9780700632992

OCLC:

1315642171