Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarian

dc.contributor.authorSloniowski, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-29T16:48:24Z
dc.date.available2016-06-29T16:48:24Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe affective turn in the humanities and social sciences seeks to theorize the social through examining spheres of experience, particularly bodily experience and the emotions, not typically explored in dominant theoretical paradigms of the twentieth century. Affective or immaterial labor is work that is intended to produce or alter emotional experiences in people. Although it has a long history, affective labor has been of increasing importance to modern economies since the nineteenth century. This paper will explore the gendered dimensions of affective labor and offer a feminist reading of the production of academic subjectivities through affective labor by specifically examining the pink-collar immaterial labor of academic reference and liaison librarians. It will end by exploring how the work of the academic librarian may also productively subvert the neoliberal goals of the corporate university.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSloniowski, Lisa. Library Trends, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2016 (“Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” edited by Emily Drabinski and Patrick Keilty), pp. 645–666.
dc.identifier.citationSloniowski, Lisa. Library Trends, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2016 (“Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” edited by Emily Drabinski and Patrick Keilty), pp. 645–666.
dc.identifier.issn1559-0682
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31500
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0013
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen
dc.subjectAffective labouren
dc.subjectEmotional labouren
dc.subjectAcademic Librarians - Role in Knowledge Productionen
dc.subjectFeminist theoryen
dc.subjectLibrarianship - Labour issuesen
dc.titleAffective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarianen
dc.typeArticle

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