Burnout
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being and SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Burnout has become a defining symptom of the pressures of contemporary society, with surveys showing a significant increase in burnout symptoms globally. Yet it was only in 2019 that the World Health Organisation officially recognised it by giving it a contested definition as an occupational workplace syndrome. Exposing underlying tensions between personal wellbeing, social expectations, and institutional demands, burnout raises urgent questions about productivity, care and identity.
This Collection invites scholarship that explores burnout from across the humanities and social sciences, including psychology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy and literature, education, and digital and environmental humanities.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Work, precarity, the gig economy and occupational burnout
- Emotional labour, care work, and invisible exhaustion
- Burnout and gender, race, disability, or class
- Digital burnout: screen fatigue, online labour, and algorithmic pressure
- Historical genealogies of exhaustion and overwork
- The aesthetics of fatigue: representations in literature, film, and media
- Diagnoses, treatments, recoveries and prevention of burnout
- Burnout, depression and anxiety
- Burnout and pedagogy: teaching, learning, and institutional strain
We invite submissions from scholars and practitioners and encourage interdisciplinary work that bridges theory and practice.
