Research assessment, emotional practices, and the social hierarchy: what can you afford to feel?
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Research assessment, emotional practices, and the social hierarchy : what can you afford to feel? / Poulsen, Simone Mejding; Rowlands, Julie.
I: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Bind 44, Nr. 6, 2023, s. 1035-1050.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Research assessment, emotional practices, and the social hierarchy
T2 - what can you afford to feel?
AU - Poulsen, Simone Mejding
AU - Rowlands, Julie
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper investigates how the emotional responses towards research assessment reflect both social position and strategy in the struggle for scientific authority. This is examined through interviews with humanities researchers conducted as a part of a study on the implications for research practice of the Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI). Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of practice and Scheer and Matthäus’ conceptualisation of the affective habitus and emotional practices, our research suggests that emotions can be conceptualized as strategic practices closely tied to the hierarchical position of the researchers. Established researchers deployed emotional practices as a form of resistance against compliance-based research assessment to retain their scientific authority and autonomy, while early-career researchers generally wanted to resist but their precarious positions did not afford them the possibility to do so. The study thus highlights the potential of studying emotions in relation to resistance and reproduction of dominance in higher education.
AB - This paper investigates how the emotional responses towards research assessment reflect both social position and strategy in the struggle for scientific authority. This is examined through interviews with humanities researchers conducted as a part of a study on the implications for research practice of the Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI). Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of practice and Scheer and Matthäus’ conceptualisation of the affective habitus and emotional practices, our research suggests that emotions can be conceptualized as strategic practices closely tied to the hierarchical position of the researchers. Established researchers deployed emotional practices as a form of resistance against compliance-based research assessment to retain their scientific authority and autonomy, while early-career researchers generally wanted to resist but their precarious positions did not afford them the possibility to do so. The study thus highlights the potential of studying emotions in relation to resistance and reproduction of dominance in higher education.
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2023.2229032
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2023.2229032
M3 - Journal article
VL - 44
SP - 1035
EP - 1050
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
SN - 0142-5692
IS - 6
ER -
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