Methods of Exploring Emotions

Helena Flam received Fil.Kand. from Lunds Universitet, Sweden, and her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, US. Since 1993 she has been an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. She has published on emotions, social movements, organizations, and discrimination. She is a founder and a past convener of the European Research Network on Emotions affiliated with the European Sociological Association.

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Offering entrancing short essays, from leading contributors the book is interdisciplinary in scope and will become the necessary refere

1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam Part 1: Emotions - A legitimate object of study 2. Using Fiction as Sociology: How to analyze emotions with the help of novels, Helmut Kuzmics 3. "It's all in the Plot" - Narrative explorations of work-related emotions, Yiannis Gabriel and Eda Ulus 4. "Studying Up" - Emotions and finance decisions, Jocelyn Pixley 5. Exploring Emotion Discourse, Tamar Katriel 6. The Rhetoric of Emotions, Barbara Czarniawska Part 2: Eliciting Emotions Through Interviews 7. Researching Dark Emotions: Eliciting Stories of Envy, Ishan Jalan 8. Emotional Expertise: Emotions and the expert interview, Jochen Kleres 9. Dialogic Introspection - A method for exploring emotions in everyday-life and experimental contexts, Thomas Burkart and Jenny Weggen Part 3: Observing Emotions in Self and Others 10. How Do We Know What They Feel?, Åsa Wettergren 11. Emotional Insights in the Field, Stina Bergman Blix 12. Emotions: The discovery of an object and the development of a method, Denise Van Dam and Jean Nizet 13. Emotional Alliances in Bureaucratic Encounters, Alberto Martín Pérez 14. Can You Feel Your Research Results? How to deal with and gain insights from emotions generated during oral history interviews, Benno Gammerl 15. When Your Data Make You Cry, Deborah Gould 16. Funerary Emotions: Categorizing Data From a Fieldwork Diary, Julien Bernard 17. Researching "Emotional Geographies" in Schools: The value of critical ethnography, Michalinos Zembylas Part 4: Speaking Emotions 18. Linguistic Affect as Methodological Lens: The micro and macro of finding affect in language, H. Julia Eksner 19. Emotion and Concep