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Emotionally indebted [electronic resource] : governing the unemployed people in an affective economy / Sabina Pultz.

"Emotionally Indebted provides so many distinct and fascinating ways of looking at how people experience unemployment in the modern economy. Sabina Pultz leverages a thoughtful synthesis of research from around the world and her own perceptive and empathetic interviews to give us a rich underst...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Pultz, Sabina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Subjects:
Unemployed > Denmark.
Unemployed > Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • References
  • Contents
  • 1: Introduction
  • Eroding the Binary Category of Un/employment
  • Governing Unemployment in the Welfare State
  • Researching Unemployment
  • Working on or with Unemployed People
  • Social Psychological Approach
  • Aims and Contributions
  • Structure of the Book
  • References
  • 2: Governing Unemployed People Through Technologies of Power and Those of the Self
  • The Social Psychological Figure and Governmentality Studies
  • Governmentality Studies as the Theoretical Backdrop
  • Technologies of Power and of the Self
  • The Challenges of Governmentality Studies
  • Subjectification and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
  • Neoliberal Subjectification
  • Affective Subjectification
  • Affective Economies and 'Sticky' Categories
  • Emotional Labor and Affective Economies in Networking
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 3: Setting the Scene
  • Framing the Policy-Level and Situating the Danish Case
  • Activation at Street-Level PES
  • Temporary Suspension of ALMPs during Covid-19
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 4: Governing the Active Jobseeker
  • Psychologizing Unemployment: Governing Through Empowerment and Motivation
  • Internalizing Motivation Technologies
  • The Many Faces of Self-Blame
  • Competitive Infrastructures
  • What Alleviates the Self-Blame?
  • Technologies of Fear and Risk Management
  • Managing Risk Through Future Selves
  • Governing Through Algorithms: Job Suggestions and Profiling
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 5: The Sticky Shame and What to Do with It
  • The Duality of Shame and Passion, Affective Economy, and 'Sticky Categories'
  • Recoding Unemployment: Passion as a Prerequisite
  • Selling Oneself in the Competitive Labor Market
  • Not Only Good Feelings
  • Shame and Its Workings
  • Not Me: Then Who?
  • Escaping Shame: The Freelancer and the Affective Economy
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 6: Resisting the Shame and 'Unemployed by Choice'
  • Self-Responsible Creative People
  • Alternative Value Systems
  • Turning the Arrow Toward Society
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 7: The Intimate Dance of Networking
  • Networking and the Unemployment Field
  • Institutionalized Networking Technologies
  • The Experience of Networking in the U.S. and Denmark
  • Networking in the Affective Economy
  • The Double Mask: Hiding the Emotional Toll
  • Differences Between Unemployed Danish and American Workers: Positivity and Critique
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 8: Unemployment Experiences During Covid-19: A Little Less Blame?
  • The Continuous Self-Doubt in the Job Search and the Impact of the Pandemic
  • The Relentless Job Search Leaving No Time for Life
  • Exploring Alternative Values
  • Unemployment as a More Legitimate Position: But for Whom?
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • 9: Synthetizing the Contributions
  • Psychologization and the Emotional Debt

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