Professor Ian Burkitt
Emeritus Professor - FOMLSS
Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Social Sciences (Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences) |
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i.burkitt@bradford.ac.uk |
Biography
I am currently Emeritus Professor of Social Identity in the Division of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Bradford. My work is centrally concerned with the formation of human identity within social relations, beginning with my first book Social Selves (1991; 2nd ed. 2008). Over the years my interest in the societal contexts in which we become particular social beings, has broadened to include forms of human embodiment (Bodies of Thought, 1999) and the relational formation of emotions (Emotions and Social Relations, 2014). My recent work has extended the relational approach to emotions into critical considerations of the influence of neuroscience on emotion theory, of ideas about emotion regulation, and the nature of alienation in contemporary capitalism. I have also written about reconceptualising agency through the perspective of relational sociology.
Research
The social formation of identity. Social activity and human embodiment. The social and relational constitution of emotions, including the political dimension of emotions. Agency as a relational phenomenon.
Publications
Title | Alienation and emotion: social relations and estrangement in contemporary capitalism (2019) |
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Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Emotions, Social Activity and Neuroscience: The Cultural-Historical Formation of Emotion (2019) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | The emotional self: Embodiment, reflexivity, and emotion regulation (2018) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Decentring emotion regulation: from emotion regulation to relational emotion (2018) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Relational agency: Relational sociology, agency and interaction (2016) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Self and others in the field of perception: The role of micro-dialogue, feeling, and emotion in perception (2013) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Journal | Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology |
DOI | 10.1037/a0030255 |
Title | Emotional reflexivity: feeling, emotion and imagination in reflexive dialogues (2012) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Fragments of Unconscious Experience: Towards a Dialogical, Relational, and Sociological Analysis (2010) |
Authors | Burkitt I. |
Journal | Theory and Psychology |
DOI | 10.1177/0959354310362827 |
Title | Dialogues with self and others: communication, miscommunication, and the dialogical unconscious (2010) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Situating Auto/biography: Biography and Narrative in the Times and Places of Everyday Life (2009) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Embodied ideas and divided selves: revisiting Laing via Bakhtin (2009) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian; Sullivan, Paul W. |
Title | Powerful Emotions: Power, Government and Opposition in the `War on Terror' (2005) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | The time and space of everyday life (2004) |
Authors | Burkitt I. |
Journal | Cultural Studies |
DOI | 10.1080/0950238042000201491 |
Title | Psychology in the Field of Being: Merleau-Ponty, Ontology and Social Constructionism. (2003) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Technologies of the Self: Habitus and Capacities. (2002) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Complex emotions: Relations, feelings and images in emotional experience (2002) |
Authors | Burkitt I. |
Journal | Sociological Review |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2002.tb03596.x |
Title | Emotions and Social Relations (2014) |
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Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Social selves: theories of self and society (2008) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Title | Appearance and image in the perception and misperception of self and others: Ichheiser and social psychological theory (2018) |
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Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Journal | Memories of Gustav Ichheiser |
Publisher | Springer |
Title | Relational agency (2018) |
Authors | Burkitt, Ian |
Journal | The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology |
Publisher | Palgrave |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_26 |
Title | Nurse Education and Communities of Practice. (2001) |
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Authors | Burkitt, Ian; Husband, Charles H.; Mackenzie, Jennifer; Torn, Alison |