Introducing Mood Work

New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2014 Number 82

Introducing Mood Work
Ben Highmore, Jenny Bourne Taylor pages -

Abstract

In this introduction we suggest a number of ways that mood has been and can be a productive way to approach various forms of labour including: the emotional expenditure of those that care either professionally or as ‘voluntary’ labourers; the pedagogic labour of teaching; and the mood work of the state and the media. The introduction also introduces the main themes of the essays in this special issue.

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Ben Highmore, Jenny Bourne Taylor (2014) Introducing Mood Work, New Formations, 2014(82), -

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