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MAIS 615: Business of Emotions (Rev. 5 & 6) Report a Broken Link

MAIS 615: The Business of Emotions is an interdisciplinary study of emotions, focusing on their role in workplaces and marketplaces.

Textbooks

Ben–Ze’ev, A. (2000). The subtlety of emotions. MIT Press.
Hochschild, A. R. (2012). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling (Updated edition). University of California Press.

Unit 3

Sizer, L. (2010). Good and good for you: An affect theory of happiness. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80(1), 133–163. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380505
Ahmed, S. (2010). Happy objects. In M. Gregg & G. J. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader (pp. 29–51). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822393047-001

Unit 4

Rifkin, J. (2001). Commodifying human relationships. In The age of access: The new culture of hypercapitalism, where all of life is a paid-for experience (96–113, 276–277). Tarcher.
Sorkin, M. (1992). See you in Disneyland. In M. Sorkin (Ed.), Variations on a theme park: The new American city and the end of public space (pp. 205–232). Hill and Wang.
Bryman, A. (1999). The Disneyization of society. The Sociological Review, 47(1), 25–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.00161
Raz, A. E. (1997). The slanted smile factory: Emotion management in Tokyo Disneyland. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 21, 201–217.

Unit 5

Klein, N. (2000). New branded world. In No logo (pp. 25–45). Flamingo.
Klein, N. (2000). The discarded factory. In No logo (pp. 203–237). Flamingo.
Arvidsson, A. (2005). Brands: A critical perspective. Journal of Consumer Culture, 5(2), 235–258. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540505053093
Holt, D. B. (2002). Why do brands cause trouble? A dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding. Journal of Consumer Research, 29(1), 70–90. https://doi.org/10.1086/339922
Veenis, M. (1999). Consumption in East Germany: The seduction and betrayal of things. Journal of Material Culture, 4(1), 79–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/135918359900400105

Unit 6

Lewis, T., Amini, F., & Lannon, R. (2000). Kits, cats, sacks, and uncertainty: How the brain’s basic structure poses problems for love. In A general theory of love (pp. 16–34). Random House.
Damasio, A. (1994). Introduction. In Descartes’ error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain (pp. xi–xix). Avon.
Damasio, A. (1994). Emotions and Feelings. In Descartes’ error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain (pp. 127–164). Avon.
Foucault, M. (1995). The spectacle of the scaffold. In Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (2nd ed.; A. Sheridan, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1975)

Unit 7

Foucault, M. (1995). The spectacle of the scaffold. In Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (2nd ed.; A. Sheridan, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1975)
Foucault, M. (1995). The body of the condemned. In Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (2nd ed.; A. Sheridan, Trans.) (pp. 3–31). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1975)
Morgan, D. (2002). Pain: The unrelieved condition of modernity. European Journal of Social Theory, 5(3), 307–322. https://doi.org/10.1177/136843102760513929
Arnault, L. S. (2003). Cruelty, horror, and the will to redemption. Hypatia, 18(2), 155–188. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00809.x