Introduction: why are we interested in emotions?

By K. Gilbert. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Researching sensitive topics: qualitative research as emotion work (2009, background): “As researchers, we should see research not only as an intellectual exercise but also ‘as a process of exploration and discovery that is felt deeply’ (Gilbert, 2001a: 9).”
• Emotion, empathy and exit: reflections on doing ethnographic qualitative research on sensitive topics (2008, background): “…social research is a boundary issue and one that has been discussed in the literature (Duncombe and Jessop, 2002) in relation to both temporary (Gilbert, 2001a) and simulated friendship and the power balance present in research with sensitive subjects that usually operates in favour of the…”