Analysing emotions and emotion-management in the academic organization, Passion and Paranoia shows how focusing on emotions in organizations can offer insights into important aspects and the dynamics of organizational processes. Drawing on rich interview material, this book demonstrates the often-overlooked importance of emotions in academic life, to reveal the manner in which emotion contributes to social bonds, power-relationships and hierarchies, micro-politics and processes of inclusion and exclusion from an academic career. A significant contribution to the study of emotion and the academy, Passion and Paranoia will appeal to sociologists and anthropologists researching work and organizations, emotion, academic culture and social relationships.

Charlotte Bloch is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theory and Empirical Basis; Chapter 3 A Huge Emotional Challenge; Chapter 4 The Order of Visibility; Chapter 5 The Janus Face of the Peer Review; Chapter 6 The Politics of Laughter; Chapter 7 The Academic Lunchroom; Chapter 8 Social Bonds in Academia; Chapter 9 Emotional Micropolitics and Gender; Chapter 10 Conclusion and Perspectives;