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Seminar Series' 2008/09: Emotional Labour  Date: 4 December 2008
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm  CGWS Seminar Series 2008/09: Emotional
Labour  This seminar series aims at examining the developments
and implications of the 'affective turn' in social and cultural
studies. The provenance of the concept of emotional labour in
the sociology of work (Hochschild 1983), its development in
organisation studies and the proliferation of its use elsewhere,
offer grounds for revisiting the potential and limits of the
concept. This series aims to explore the ways in which the
'emotional labour' speaks not only to the various forms of
'management of feeling' individuals negotiate on a daily basis -
at work, at home, in public spaces - but also to the social and
ethical implications of these practices. What 'work' do emotions
do in shaping social identities? How are the subjectivities of
professionals, practitioner