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Communication without Borders: Emotion Work & People with CCN

October 29 @ 11:00 pm – October 30 @ 12:00 am EDT

Session ID: 1004

 

Objectives:

1.Explain the Cycle of Negativity and how it contributes to the practice of emotion work for people with CCN.

2.Describe the ways in which society marginalises people with disabilities, and how people with CCN perform, suppress, monitor and pretend emotions for the benefit of others.

3.Describe how emotion work contributes to a person’s mental health.

 

Moderator: Irene Hunter

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Start:
October 29 @ 11:00 pm EDT
End:
October 30 @ 12:00 am EDT
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Online (Zoom)

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Abstract

Emotion Work is something that we all do. I first explored the concept of emotion work in 2008. While I knew there had to be a name for something I did everyday because I was a woman with lived experiences of complex communication needs (CCN), I was also interested to know whether or not other women did the same, and whether or not they thought it had something to do with living with disability (Charlesworth, 2008).

Emotion work is the suppression, performing, monitoring, and pretending emotion. The concept of emotion work was first introduced in 1979 by Arlie Hochscild.  Hochschild mostly applied the concept to those who worked in service occupations,  such as airline stewards. For Hochschild, emotion work was the conscious and deliberate act to not only manage one’s own emotions, but also the emotions of others (Hochschild, A. 1979).Â