Kerr, EA and Garforth, L (2016) Affective practices, care and bioscience: a study of two laboratories. The Sociological Review, 64 (1). pp. 3-20. ISSN 0038-0261
Abstract
Scientific knowledge-making is not just a matter of experiments, modelling and fieldwork. It also involves affective, embodied and material practices (Wetherell 2012) which can be understood together as 'matters of care' (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011). In this paper we explore how affect spans and connects material, subjective and organisational practices, focusing in particular on the patterns of care we encountered in an observational study of two bioscience laboratories. We explore the preferred emotional subjectivities of each lab and their relation to material practice. We go on to consider flows and clots in the circulation of affect and their relation to care through an exploration of belonging and humour in the labs. We show how being a successful scientist or group of researchers involves a careful choreography of affect in relation to materials, colleagues and others to produce scientific results, subjects and workplaces. We end by considering how thinking with care troubles dominant constructions of scientific practice, successful scientific selves and collectives.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2015 The Authors. The Sociological Review Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Editorial Board of The Sociological Review. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
Keywords: | Affect; care; science |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 17617 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2015 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2016 10:50 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12310 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-954X.12310 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83823 |