Passion and Paranoia—Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia

Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes. Drawing on rich interview material, this book demonstrates the often-overlooked importance of emotions in academic life, to reveal the manner in which emotion contributes to social bonds, power-relationships and hierarchies, micro-politics and processes of inclusion and exclusion from an academic career.

Charlotte Bloch is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.