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Both more immediate and longer-term forms of emotion are highly relevant to researching on violence. This chapter discusses: how emotions can be important in organising research on violence; emotions in doing research the field, and in interviewing men on violence; the relations between the emotions of interviewees and the emotions of researchers; as well as emotions between men, and emotions in analysis and writing up research material. In addition, emotion can work in a more muted, longer-term way, and can be linked with: first, the very practice of doing direct research on violence itself; second, less immediate, more distanced violence or the use of more distanced research methods on violence; and, third, managerial, administrative and educational tasks on and around violence. I call these the emotions of gravity.
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This paper acknowledges ‘Regimes of Violence: Theorising and Explaining Variations in the Production of Violence in Welfare State Regimes’ project, Vetenskapsrådet, 2017-01914.
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Hearn, J. (2021). Serious Emotions: On Some Emotions in Working on Men’s Violences and Violences to Women. In: Husso, M., Karkulehto, S., Saresma, T., Laitila, A., Eilola, J., Siltala, H. (eds) Violence, Gender and Affect . Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56930-3_5
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