Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes

Clary Krekula and Stefan Karlsson
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Clary Krekula: Linnaeus University, Sweden
Stefan Karlsson: Karlstad University, Sweden

Work, Employment & Society, 2023, vol. 37, issue 5, 1244-1260

Abstract: This article centres on emotions within the Swedish rescue services in terms of the concepts of emotional regime and emotional pasts, partly with a focus on the role of emotional pasts in emotional regimes, partly on how the (re)construction of emotional pasts relates to the organisation of the workplace. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with five female and 13 male firefighters in Sweden, aged 28–58. Results show that individual experiences are used as emotional pasts to define work situations in the present and that work teams, through informal conversations and formal debriefing, create stories out of central events, thus constructing shared emotional pasts. All in all, the analysis shows that temporalities and their narrative expressions are a vital part of how emotional regimes are sustained within the rescue services, which has implications for the understanding of the rescue services as an organisation.

Keywords: emotion management; emotional past; emotional regime; firefighters; temporality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/09500170221084615

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