Interspecies Emotional Labour

Unspoken Expectations of Professionalism in Guide Dog Work
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98986-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Multispecies Encounters

This book explores the topic of interspecies emotional labour through the work of guide dogs and their instructors. The skill of managing emotions to present oneself with the professionalism is referred to as emotional labour.

Extending practitioner knowledge and emotional labour theory to Anthrozoology and Animal Organization Studies discourse, this multispecies ethnography draws on the author's work with guide dogs, and those of the professionals she interviewed, to introduce multiple case studies that explore the enmeshed dynamics and practices involved in emotional labour within multispecies workplaces. It presents new insights into why the emotional labour strategies a human or dog worker utilise are important, and how these can directly impact an individual’s working success and well-being. Despite the centrality of emotional labour performances in multispecies workplaces, it has fallen under the radar of academic and practitioner attention until recent years, making this an innovative, timely addition to existing discourse.

This book will appeal to practitioners and academics interested in understanding and improving emotional labour education and practices to support more sustainable interspecies work.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warda, Tiamat

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Preface 1 - Guiding Emotions: An introduction to interspecies emotional labour 2– Interspecies emotional labour in multispecies workplaces 3 – Assessing and selecting for interspecies emotional labour 4 – Preparing workers for interspecies emotional labour 5 – Sustaining interspecies emotional labour in multispecies workplaces 6 – Interspecies emotional labour within challenging scenarios 7 – Where to from here? References Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Tiamat Warda is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. Tiamat’s research brings academic knowledge together with practitioner expertise to understand how the organisation and regulation of multispecies workplaces, and the education of workers across species, can be advanced to improve interspecies emotional labour practices.