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List of contents
1. Introduction: governing with feeling
Jessica Pykett, Eleanor Jupp and Fiona M. Smith
PART I: Approaching emotional governance: feminism and gendered labour
2. Rationality, responsibility and rage: the contested politics of emotion governance
Janet Newman
3. Reframing co-production: gender, relational academic labour and the university
Bryony Enright, Keri Facer and Wendy Larner
PART II: Emotions in public policy-making
4. Choice architecture as new governance: the case of the Dutch housing market
Kayleigh van Oorschot, Menno Fenger and Mark van Twist
5. Governing mindfully: shaping policy makers’ emotional engagements with behaviour change
Jessica Pykett, Rachel Howell, Rachel Lilley, Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead
6. The sentimental civil servant
Rosie Anderson
PART III: Emotions in public services
7. Behaviourally, emotionally and socially ‘problematic’ students: interrogating emotional governance as a form of exclusionary practice
Jennifer Lea, Louise Holt and Sophie Bowlby
8. 'Supporting People': regulation, welfare practice and emotions
Rachael Dobson
9. Fearful asymmetry: circuits of paranoia in governing through school inspection
John Clarke
10.Troubling feelings in family policy and interventions
Eleanor Jupp
PART IV: Emotions of citizenship and participation
11. The role of multicultural fantasies in the enactment of the state: the English National Health Service (NHS) as an affective formation
Shona Hunter
12. Whose feelings count? Performance politics, emotion and government immigration control
Kirsten Forkert, Emma Jackson and Hannah Jones
13. Governing through civic pride: pride and policy in local government
Tom Collins
14. An affective journey to active citizenship
Mark Griffiths
15. The relational spaces of mentoring with young people ‘at risk’
Fiona M. Smith, Matej Blazek, Donna Marie Brown and Lorraine van Blerk
Afterword: looking beyond our emotional present
Elizabeth A. Gagen
About the author
Eleanor Jupp is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK.
Jessica Pykett is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Fiona M. Smith is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Dundee, UK.
Summary
What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with social policy concerns and contemporary issues of governance. It sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of the emotionalized states of the citizen, policy maker and public service worker, and highlights new research on the emotional forms of governance which now characterise public life.
An international range of empirical field studies are used to examine issues of regulation, modification, governance and potential manipulation of emotional affects, professional and personal identities and political technologies. Contributors provide analysis of the role of emotional entanglements in policy strategy, policy implementation, service delivery, citizenship and participation as well as considering the emotional nature of the research process itself. It will be of interest to researchers and students within social policy, human geography, politics and related disciplines.
