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Interdisciplinary collaboration is frequently considered hard intellectual and methodological labour. And it is that. But interdisciplinary work is emotional work too — and is riven by the presence of (and requirement to manage) many different kinds of feelings, not all of them joyful. This chapter takes up the analysis of emotion in interdisciplinary spaces — arguing that such spaces are deeply dependent on forms of emotional regulation. The chapter works through moments, from our own work, in which we have felt bad, confused, and irritated. Thinking through how we managed these moments, the chapter positions interdisciplinarity as an affectively fuzzy domain, and much of the work of collaboration as learning to live though that fuzz. The chapter is appended with an epilogue to the broader monograph, which focuses on the two authors’ own form of collaborative labour.
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Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D. (2015). Feeling Fuzzy: The Emotional Life of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. In: Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407962_8
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