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• The politics of gendered emotions: disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege

  Author:Bob PeaseFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20127,698 words Report 1370LThis paper explores the implications of the neglect of emotions in critical masculinity studies and profeminist masculinity politics. This neglect in part results from feminist and profeminist critiques of the...

• Advancing wellbeing research: would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians?

  Authors:Roger Patulny and Kimberly FisherFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20128,084 words Report 1500LInternational comparisons of emotional wellbeing rarely account for the situational and social context of the experience of emotions (such as happiness or pleasantness) associated with everyday activities. A small...

• Introduction to the special issue on emotions in social life and social policy

  Authors:Roger Patulny and Natasha CortisFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20122,399 words Editorial 1580LThis Special Issue deals with emotions in social life and social policy. Over several decades, a wide body of social scientific literature has shown that everyday social roles and institutions are defined and organised...

• Ping-pong poms: emotional reflexivity in contemporary return migration from Australia to the United Kingdom

  Authors:Mary Holmes and Roger BurrowsFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20125,837 words Report 1330LAbout 20,000 people from the United Kingdom emigrate to Australia each year. Of these, a significant number return to the United Kingdom, and some return again to Australia. Studies of such patterns of migration and...

• Gender, emotions and fly-in fly-out work

  Authors:Barbara Pini and Robyn MayesFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20126,154 words Report 1490LThis paper explores the emotional life of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers and their families, through an analysis of more than 500 postings made on an online chat forum for mining families. Building on literature on...

• It's frustrating! Managing emotional dissonance in aged care work

  Author:Debra KingFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20128,420 words Report 1390LPerforming paid care work requires workers to simultaneously negotiate care and waged relationships. Mediating contradictions between the two often causes workers to experience frustration, a form of emotional...

• A lonely society? Loneliness and liquid modernity in Australia

  Author:Adrian FranklinFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20128,344 words Report 1560LThis paper reviews recent studies of loneliness in order to assess whether it is becoming endemic in Australian society. It develops the idea that loneliness is an embedded social structural feature of contemporary...

• Imaginary friends: migrants' emotional accounts about friends outside Australia

  Author:Harriet WestcottFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20126,868 words Report 1350LMigration can have emotional costs for migrants, whose face-to-face friendships are ruptured. This article explores the ways that migrants managed their emotions towards old friends after migration. Excerpts from...