Handarbetets sociala rum - om emotionshantering och kollektiv identitet i handarbetsrörelsen
Interaction ritualsEmotional energyEmotion managementHandicraft movementSymbolsEmotional spaceCollective identity
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate emotions and collective identity in the handicraftmovement. Which are the collective identities of craft movement, and is it possible to speak ofan over all collective identity among the handicraft people? I will also examine the emotion workboth on individual and group level.Eight qualitative interviews were conducted to achieve the aim of this thesis. Research haspreviously drawn attention to handicraft from a gender and a historical perspective but neverfrom an emotional one. The theoretical framework derives from an emotion sociologicalperspective where Collins interaction rituals, emotional energy and Hochschild?s emotionmanagement is the main theses. Collective identity are analysed with theories from Melucci´sand Barbalet?s macro sociological emotional approach.The result shows that emotions have a big part in creating collective identity. The collectiveidentity is based on ideological approaches and is created by interaction rituals. These interactionrituals elaborates an opportunity to get emotional energy, which in turn inspires the respondents?to express their identity trough handicraft.