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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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, Rac...
