Emotion work and feeling rules
The notions of emotion work or emotional labour are frequently employed in Disability Research to describe a disproportionate amount of interactive work that disabled people are expected to perform for others, yet its current application is found too unspecific. The article argues for terminological...
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| Xuất bản năm: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr, |
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| Định dạng: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Anglais |
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Alter
2026
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | The notions of emotion work or emotional labour are frequently employed in Disability Research to describe a disproportionate amount of interactive work that disabled people are expected to perform for others, yet its current application is found too unspecific. The article argues for terminological and conceptual refinements by distinguishing different forms of emotion work and reconstructing the underlying feeling rules. It is based on my dissertation, which systematizes the theorization of affect, emotions and feelings in Disability Research in order to suggest a still pending common terminology. To this end, I conducted a review of the archives of related scientific journals. As documented in Disability Research, the article outlines the disproportionate amount of emotion work that disabled people are expected to perform – drawing on the notion of psycho-emotional disablism – and characterizes emotion work’s disabling effects on lived experiences, namely on disabled people’s emotional lives and as a structural disadvantage. Additionally, three underlying feeling rules specifically directed at disabled people are reconstructed. A comprehensive description of emotion work suggests that this work is exacerbated by an individualization of responsibility – for access respectively pleasant interactions. On this basis, recommendations can be generated on how to share emotion work more equally. |
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