and pushes the boundaries of the relationship between performance and audience. Rantisi and Leslie (2015) contend that circus performance is creative work. Stephens (2015: 2019) likewise asserts that circus performers are creative workers who face precarity and risk. Some research has explored the emotional lives of circus aerialists during performance and travel (for example, Tait, 2005 ; Lavers et al, 2019 ; Stephens, 2019 ), and we advance this work by examining emotional labour ( Hochschild, [1983] 2002 ; Bolton and Boyd, 2003 ; Hoffman, 2015 ) in the
119 6 Emotional labour in social work practice and the production of shame Carsten Schröder Introduction The subject of this chapter is the emotional labour of practitioners in the field of residential care. It focuses on the creation of an emotional atmosphere in the interaction between professionals and service users. The chapter examines the hypothesis that by creating an emotional atmosphere, practitioners try to engender either positive or negative emotions in service users, based on the definition of a given situation by professionals. This way of
) ‘Program structure and effective correctional practices: a summary of the CaVIC research’, in R. Ross and P. Gendreau (eds) Effective Correctional Treatment, Toronto: Butterworth. Ashforth B.E. and Humphrey, R.H. (1993) ‘Emotional labor in service roles: the influence of identity’, The Academy of Management Review, 18(1): 88–115. Bhowmick, S. and Zubin, M. (2016) ‘Emotional labour of policing. Does authenticity play a role?’, International Journal of Police Science & Management, 18(1): 47–60. Bolton, S. (2000) ‘Who cares? Offering emotion work as a “gift” in the
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. These linked narratives or themes include: an ability to be functionally invisible as a sex worker due to adherence to other normative identity categories, such as ‘student’ or ‘business owner’; the obfuscation of the actual work of sex work and the associated emotional labour which both the work and obscuring it requires; and, comparisons between indoor workers who see relatively few clients and those who see more clients and/or charge less for their services. When compared to other groups of sex workers, low-volume indoor workers were most likely to be described
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significant because this research can help actors embrace potentially harmful social interactions as opportunities for positive change and development (for example, Hocker and Wilmot, 2018 ). Second, the article extends ongoing efforts to understand Hochschild’s (1983) conceptualisation of emotional labour through relational lenses (for example, Hargreaves, 2001 ; Isenbarger and Zembylas, 2006 ; McKenzie et al, 2019 ). Specifically, I provide empirical illustrations of the relationally embedded emotional labour undertaken by teachers during classroom conflicts. The
