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Emotional engagements with the field: a view from area studies / Kay, Rebecca; Oldfield, Jonathan

Kay, Rebecca	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article underlines the potential for multi-disciplinary area studies to provide a stimulating context within which to advance our understanding of the role that emotions play within the research process. The article seeks to argue for the relevance of emotional work with respect to research activity and, drawing from the experiences of the two authors, highlights some of the ways in which sensitivity to such matters can assist in making sense of our research experiences and findings. The article does not make any claim to introduce new ideas regarding the challenges involved in confronting the 'emotional' and 'subjective' in social science research; rather it is a response to a perceived lack of debate concerning such issues within the multi-disciplinary field of area studies, and particularly its published output, in spite of the vigorous discussions going on within many areas of the social sciences.

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Social Sciences ; Emotional Engagements ; Research Experiences

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She's like a daughter to me: insights into care, work and kinship from rural Russia / Kay, Rebecca

Kay, Rebecca	Journal Article
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2013.

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This article draws on ethnographic research into a state-funded homecare service in rural Russia. The article discusses intersections between care, work and kinship in the relationships between homecare workers and their elderly wards and explores the ways in which references to kinship, as a means of authenticating paid care and explaining its emotional content, reinforce public and private oppositions while doing little to relieve the tensions and conflicts of care work. The discussion brings together detailed empirical insights into local ideologies and practices as a way of generating new theoretical perspectives, which will be of relevance beyond the particular context of study.

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Russia ; Kinship ; Rural Russia ; Homecare Workers ; Conflicts of Care Work

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