Introduction Sexual harassment is an embodied issue in many ways. It often takes place in embodied encounters, where certain bodies are exposed to harassment, while others are marked with a sense of entitlement to harass ( Vera-Gray, 2016 ). It also has embodied, affective consequences (also when harassment is enacted verbally or digitally), as it shapes possibilities to relate to other bodies and to experience and give meaning to one’s own body. Sexual harassment is generally defined as unwanted, one-sided sexual attention or other sexual behaviour – verbal
Introduction This chapter aims to explore the affective dynamics of contemporary academic capitalism that academia has gone through in neoliberal and market-oriented times. After the introduction – more than 25 years ago – of the term ‘academic capitalism’ by Sheila Slaughter and Larry L. Leslie (1997) , it is now widely used to understand the global reach of changes connected to processes of alliances between university, industry and government in higher education and research policies ( Etzkowitz, 2016 ; Holmwood, 2016 ). We follow the definition of
affective ( Clough and Halley, 2007 ; Lemmings and Brooks, 2014 ), the practical ( Schatzki et al, 2001 ), the relational ( Prandini, 2015 ; Pyyhtinen, 2016 ) and, partially, the spatial and material ( Griswold et al, 2013 ; Low, 2016 ) turns draw on largely different scholarship, and apply themselves to multiple facets of reality; however, they have compatible, if not overlapping assumptions and aims, namely: a) the increased attention to the materiality of the social world, but also b) the embodied and affective human condition, c) the understanding of meaning
Introduction ‘Lack of time’ is perhaps one of the most persistent expressions of anxiety in academic work today ( Crang, 2007 ; Gill, 2014 ; Vostal, 2016 ). It is an affective illustration of a dog chasing its tail; no matter how hard we push, we rarely ‘get things done’ ( Allen, 2001 ; see also Gill, 2010 ; Gregg, 2016 , 2018 ). The relentless pondering over whether we did enough is, on the one hand, brought about and catalysed by the precarious employment settings and fierce competition within contemporary academia ( Gill, 2014 , 2017 ; Brunila and
Previous research has mainly focused on how positive activated affective states such as work engagement, enthusiasm, and vigour can promote proactive behaviour at work. By combining the theoretical approaches of affective events theory (Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996 ) and motivation for proactive behaviour (Parker, Bindl, and Strauss, 2010 ), we broaden this perspective, and discuss additional mechanisms on how affective events can be linked to proactive behaviour via several affective states. In the following, we first provide a short overview of affective
Steven Threadgold’s study represents the first comprehensive engagement of Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociology with affect theory.
With empirical research and examples from sociology, it develops a theory of “Affective Affinities,” deepening our understanding of how everyday moments contribute to the construction and remaking of social class and aspects of inequalities. It identifies new ways to consider the strengths and weaknesses of Bourdieusian principles and their interaction with new developments in social theory.
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Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. Moving through 11 international and comparative case studies, it explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.
Affect has emerged as a major analytical lens of social research. However, it is rarely applied to universities and their marketisation. Offering a unique exploration of the contemporary role of affect in academic labour and the organisation of scholarship, this book considers modes of subjectivation, professional and personal relationships and organisational structures and their affective charges.
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Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.
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Contributors explore how our gendered selves encounter place, and critically examine the way in which experiences of gender shape meanings and attachments, as well as how place produces gendered modes of identity, inclusion and belonging. Emphasizing the intertwined dynamics of affect and being affected, the book examines the gendering of place and the placing of gender.
individual and contextual predictors of proactive behaviour, including personality, beliefs, and affect, as well as job design and leader behaviour (for reviews, see Bindl and Parker, 2011 ; Parker and Bindl, 2017 ). With regard to affect, it is now well-established that high-activated positive affect predicts proactive behaviour, including employees’ proactive goal-setting, planning, goal implementation, and feedback-seeking (Bindl and Parker, 2012 ), as well as voice behaviour (that is, speaking up in teams; Wang et al, 2019 ). In terms of the motivational
