Emotions in Academia
(2007) p.101-118- Abstract
- An old building belonging to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, situated on the bank of Amsterdam's Kaisergracht canal, formed the home of a small research department specializing in the study of dialects and Dutch folk culture up until 1988. Excerpts, records, photos and drawings were collected here in these run-down premises. It was a relatively closed setting, not highly ranked by neighbouring disciplines or within the other departments of European ethnology. When one of the researchers, J. J. Voskuil, retired after thirty years of working in the very same place, he energetically and secretly set his hand to writing a ‘roman à clef’ of seven volumes of more than five thousand pages in the space of five years. His... (More)
- An old building belonging to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, situated on the bank of Amsterdam's Kaisergracht canal, formed the home of a small research department specializing in the study of dialects and Dutch folk culture up until 1988. Excerpts, records, photos and drawings were collected here in these run-down premises. It was a relatively closed setting, not highly ranked by neighbouring disciplines or within the other departments of European ethnology. When one of the researchers, J. J. Voskuil, retired after thirty years of working in the very same place, he energetically and secretly set his hand to writing a ‘roman à clef’ of seven volumes of more than five thousand pages in the space of five years. His writings were based on an infinitesimal number of diary notes. Neither he nor the publishing company ever imagined that this would be a marketable product, and certainly never a best-seller. (Less)
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- author
- Löfgren, Orvar LU and Ehn, Billy
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- academic rituals, university life, emotions, cultural analysis, everyday life
- host publication
- The Emotions. A Cultural Reader
- editor
- Wulff, Helena
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Berg Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781003579557
- 9781845203689
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 5a6b32f4-2390-4592-ae79-7bab9c625a28 (old id 758551)
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- 2016-04-04 11:51:29
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abstract = {{An old building belonging to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, situated on the bank of Amsterdam's Kaisergracht canal, formed the home of a small research department specializing in the study of dialects and Dutch folk culture up until 1988. Excerpts, records, photos and drawings were collected here in these run-down premises. It was a relatively closed setting, not highly ranked by neighbouring disciplines or within the other departments of European ethnology. When one of the researchers, J. J. Voskuil, retired after thirty years of working in the very same place, he energetically and secretly set his hand to writing a ‘roman à clef’ of seven volumes of more than five thousand pages in the space of five years. His writings were based on an infinitesimal number of diary notes. Neither he nor the publishing company ever imagined that this would be a marketable product, and certainly never a best-seller.}},
author = {{Löfgren, Orvar and Ehn, Billy}},
booktitle = {{The Emotions. A Cultural Reader}},
editor = {{Wulff, Helena}},
isbn = {{9781003579557}},
keywords = {{academic rituals; university life; emotions; cultural analysis; everyday life}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{101--118}},
publisher = {{Berg Publishers}},
title = {{Emotions in Academia}},
year = {{2007}},
}