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Emotion work and emotion space: Using a spatial perspective to explore the challenging of masculine emotion management practices

Lewis, Patricia (2008) Emotion work and emotion space: Using a spatial perspective to explore the challenging of masculine emotion management practices. British Journal of Management, 19 (S1). S130-S140. ISSN 1045-3172. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00578.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:15771)

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Abstract

This paper sets out to investigate the possibility that employees may challenge management through their colonization of work space, facilitated by the transportation of 'private' behaviours and activities into the 'public' world of organization. It does this within the context of a broader project on the management of emotions within a special care baby unit characterized as a high risk, emergency working environment. Focusing on the experience of night nurses and drawing on the concept of differential space the article seeks to demonstrate how the dominant form of emotion work (characterized as masculine) on the unit may be contested. This is done through the creation of the unit at night as a space of empowerment, achieved through the visible enactment of a feminized form of emotion work. In this sense the analysis explores how the performance of feminine emotion work can be understood as acts of spatial resistance to the authority of the masculine emotion regime. In other words night nurses make the special care baby unit into a space which challenges the masculinist emotion management which dominates the unit. It will be suggested that our understanding of the performance of emotion management practices in particular and management practices in general may be limited if space is ignored.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00578.x
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Leadership and Management
Depositing User: Jane Griffiths
Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2009 12:10 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/15771 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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