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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 441-453Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2021.1997925
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Care labour; emotion; emotional labour; emotional capital; care ethics
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Emotional nurturance is a fundamental aspect of professional care, yet its value and status are often unclear. This paper draws on various theories and research to explore the marginalization and misrecognition of emotion, and calls for a reevaluation of emotion in professional care work, acknowledging the tensions and contradictions involved.
Emotional nurturance is a fundamental feature of all forms of professional caring. As well as delivering expert social, health, education, practical or personal services, good caregivers possess an other-centred disposition, are emotionally intelligent and relationally skilled, and morally caring. Despite this, the value, role, and status of emotional nurturance in professional care is ambivalent. Drawing on feminist care theory, Hochchild's emotional labour theory, and Bourdieusian social reproduction theory, as well as diverse empirical studies, this paper identifies how emotion is marginalised and misrecognised and calls for the reappraisal of emotion in professional care work in ways that appreciate tensions, contradictions, and dilemmas in practice.
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