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We will continue to add to this list reading that we find helpful for thinking about our emotions in museum work. Please do feel free to contact us<\/a> to share relevant resources! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANDERSON, S., (2021) \u2018\u201cWe felt unsafe\u201d: Rethinking risk, harm, and safety in museums\u2019, Museums & Social Issues <\/em>15:1-2, 4-12.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARVANITIS K., HARDMAN, A., EYRE, A., WATKINS, J. and KAVANAGH, J. (2023) Archiving disaster support group records: a guide for disaster support groups and professionals,<\/a> February 2023, University of Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BANNELL, K., & SEXTON, A., (2024) ‘Affect and rapid response collecting: Exploring the significance of emotion in UK archives’ COVID-19 collecting projects’, Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association <\/em>Online first https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23257962.2024.2351378<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELFIORE, E., (2022) ‘Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy’, European Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em> 25(1): 61-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLLINS, H., ALLSOPP, K., ARVANITIS, K., CHITSABESAN, P., & FRENCH, P. (2020) \u2018Psychological impact of spontaneous memorials: A narrative review\u2019, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy<\/em> 14(7):1230-1236.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DALE-HALLETT, L., CARLAND, R., and FRASER, P. (2015) ‘Sites of trauma: Contemporary collecting and natural disaster’. In: A. Witcomb and K. Message (eds) The International Handbook of Museum Studies, Volume 3: Museum Theory, <\/em>Wiley Blackwell: New York. pp.351-552<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DE LA BELLACASA, M.P., (2017) Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. <\/em>Minnesota University Press: Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DELISS, C., (2020) The Metabolic Museum. <\/em>Hatje Cantz Verlag: Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUCEY, A. (2010) ‘Technologies of caring labor. From objects to affect’. In: E. Boris and R.S. Parre\u00f1as (eds) Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care. <\/em>Stanford University Press: Standford, pp.18-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORTIER, J.P., (2023) Navigating Ambiguity and Boundaries: The Experience of Arts, Health and Wellbeing Facilitators Working with Individuals with Challenging Conditions or Situations. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of London. Available at: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17037\/PUBS.04671753<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROST, S., (forthcoming) \u2018Digital labour is \u201cemotional labour\u201d\u2019. In: R. Parry, V. Dziekan, and K. De Wild (eds) Museums and Digital Confidence: Organisation, Collection, Exhibition<\/em>. Routledge: London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GEOGHEGAN, H ., (2013) ‘Emotional geographies of enthusiasm: Belonging to the telecommunications heritage group’, Area <\/em>45(1):40-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GEOGHEGAN, H., & HESS, A., (2014) ‘Object-love at the Science Museum: Cultural geographies of museum storerooms’, Cultural Geographies<\/em> 22(3): 445-465.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAMMETT, J ET AL., (2021) Researcher Wellbeing. Guidelines for History Researchers. <\/em>Online report. Available at: https:\/\/researcherwellbeing.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOCHSCHILD, A., (1983) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling<\/em>. University of California Press: Berkeley.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JANES, R., (2023) Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat. <\/em>Routledge: London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KAUFMAN, F. Y. (2023) ‘Traumatic histories’. History Workshop. <\/em>Blog. 29 June. Available at: https:\/\/www.historyworkshop.org.uk\/memory-emotions\/traumatic-histories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LATHAM, K.F., & COWAN, B. (2023) Flourishing in Museums: Towards a Positive Museology. <\/em>Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAURENT, N., & HART, M. (2018) \u2018Emotional Labour and Archival Practice\u2019, Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists<\/em> 15:13-22.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAZZANTI, P., & M. SANI (eds) (2020) Emotions and Learning in Museums. A NEMO Report. Available at: ne-mo.org\/fileadmin\/Dateien\/public\/Publications\/NEMO_Emotions_and_Learning_in_Museums_WG-LEM_02.2021.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORSE, N., (2020) The Museum as a Space of Social Care<\/em>. Routledge: London.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUNRO, E., (2014) \u2018Doing emotion work in museums: Reconceptualising the role of community engagement practitioners\u2019, Museum & Society <\/em>12:1, 44-60.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION (2022) Workforce wellbeing. Survey Report. Available at: https:\/\/www.museumsassociation.org\/campaigns\/workforce\/wellbeing-research\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NAISMITH, N., (2019) Artists practising well. Robert Gordon University [online]: Aberdeen. Research Report. Available from: Artists practising well. (worktribe.com)<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

POWELL, C., SMITH, H., MURRIAN, S., HEARN, S. (2018) \u2018This [black] woman\u2019s work: Exploring archival projects that embrace the identity of the memory worker\u2019, KULA: Knowledge, Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies<\/em> 2(1):5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROBINSON, C (2021) ‘Museums and Emotions’, Journal of Museum Education <\/em>46(2): 147-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROBSON, J. C (2018) ‘Coming undone. Protocols of emotion in Canadian human rights museology’. In: L Smith, M. Wetherell & G. Campbell (eds) Emotion, Affective Practices and the Past in the Present. <\/em>Routledge: London, pp. 149-162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRONTO, J. (2015) Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics. <\/em>Cornell University Press: Ithaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VARUTTI, M., (2025) ‘Emotions in collaborative museum practice’. In: A. Edmundson and M. Haviland (eds) Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts. Routledge: London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VARUTTI, M., (2022) \u2018The affective turn in museums and the rise of affective curatorship\u2019. Museum Management & Curatorship<\/em>. 38:1, 61-75. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VARUTTI, M., (2022) ‘The ’emotional turn’ in museum practice’. Blog post. ICOM News. 14 September. Available at: The \u2018emotional turn\u2019 in museum practice – International Council of Museums -International Council of Museums (icom.museum)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VARUTTI, M., (2021) ‘Affective encounters in museums’. In: T. R. Bangstad and \u00de. P\u00e9tursd\u00f3ttir (eds) Heritage Ecologies, 129-144 London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WALKLATE, J., (2018) ‘Anxiety: Unease in the museum’. In: S. Knell (ed) The Contemporary Museum: Shaping Museums for the Global Now, 215-232. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WILSON, R., (2011) ‘The curatorial complex: Marking the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade’. In: Laura Jane Smith et al (eds) Representing enslavement and abolition in museums, 131-146, Routledge: London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We will continue to add to this list reading that we find helpful for thinking about our emotions in museum work. Please do feel free to contact us to share relevant resources!  ANDERSON, S., (2021) \u2018\u201cWe felt unsafe\u201d: Rethinking risk, harm, and safety in museums\u2019, Museums & Social Issues 15:1-2, 4-12.   ARVANITIS K., HARDMAN, A.,<\/p>\n

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