20.500.12556/RUL-182121 Affective governmentality and the emotional life of journalism across biographical transitions This article examines the emotional dynamics underpinning journalists’ professional transitions, positioning affect as central to the modality of governance in the media. We address a gap in understanding how journalists experience and manage work-related emotional dynamics throughout their professional trajectories. Drawing on the concepts of affective governmentality and manufacturing consent, we conceptualize affect as socially and institutionally regulated, embedded in governance structures that organize the media field and its work processes. Based on fifteen narrative-biographical interviews with journalists in Slovenia we show that professional trajectories are shaped not only by structural and economic pressures but also by affective attachments that regulate journalism. Emotional investments such as passion, resilience, and civic responsibility enable journalists to endure precarity and restructuring, yet they also normalize exploitation by converting enthusiasm into obligation and reframing burnout as professional commitment. At the same time, moments of resistance, refusal, and exit reveal the limits of affective governmentality, showing how emotional investments can both sustain and destabilize journalistic careers. This study contributes to media research by foregrounding how journalistic work is governed through affect. affective governmentality manufacturing consent journalistic trajectories precarity professional identity afekti soglasje novinarske poti prekarnost poklicna identiteta true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-04-24 12:59:42 2026-04-24 12:59:48 2026-04-25 04:48:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 1-20 iss. Vol. 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-03-24 316.74:070 1464-8849 10.1177/14648849261436237 276499459 RAZ_Pajnik_Mojca_2026.pdf RAZ_Pajnik_Mojca_2026.pdf 1 6166A68A265D753291C56E072BAEDCB0 65a2678d117f2dbd59530cf34c1eab0b406a38def82e9dcdcb188aa2721610b3 a4b0ec3f-3fcc-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233087 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849261436237#sec-1 1 75aa8396-3fcc-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233086 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0