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My research in critical management studies relates to everyday experiences of work, including: humour and happiness in fun corporate cultures; gender and the creative industries; and spatiality and temporarily of organisations.
My first academic interest is in the phenomena of humour and ‘play' at work. My research explores how corporate cultures advocate values of fun, enjoyment and happiness, and how these discourses are mapped onto the space and materiality of the organisations. Drawing on de Certeau’s concept of strategies and tactics of the everyday and linking this to Lefebvre’s conception of space and time, my work investigates how employees interpreted the strategies of corporate discourses through everyday tactics, such as humour.
My second area of research involves gender, femininity and feminism in organisation studies, exploring abjectivity within publishing and the creative industries. I am also interested in how brands are constructed in the everyday around concepts such as girlhood. I am a co-investigator on an Academy of Finland grant on 'The Business of Childhood', where we explore how children's authors experience their day to day work around the themes of precariousness, enchantment and gender.
I am interested in supervising PhD and masters students who take a critical approach to the study of everyday life in organisations, on the themes of gender, childhood, emotions and fun and play at
work.
Areas of interest include: Gender, abjectivity and feminist writing; the everyday in constructing brands in media; happiness, play and humour within fun corporate cultures; and space, time and materiality.
Kivinen, N. & Hunter, C. (2022) 'Affect in Organization and Management'
Kivinen, N. & Hunter, C. (2019) ‘Brand work’: Constructing assemblages in gendered creative labour. Human Relations. 72(5): 910-931
Hunter, C. & Kivinen, N. (2016) Constructing girlhood: abject labour in magazine offices. Gender, Work and Organization. 23, 6, p.551-565.
Hunter, C., Jemielniak, D. & Postula, A. (2010) Temporal and spatial shifts within playful work. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 23, 1, p. 87-102
Journal Publications
Kivinen, N. & Hunter, C. (2019) ‘Brand work’: Constructing assemblages in gendered creative labour. Human Relations. 72(5): 910-931
Hunter, C. & Kivinen, N. (2016) Constructing girlhood: abject labour in magazine offices. Gender, Work and Organization. 23, 6, p.551-565.
Hunter, C., Jemielniak, D. & Postula, A. (2010) Temporal and spatial shifts within playful work. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 23, 1, p. 87-102
Accepted for publication
Kivinen, N. and Hunter, C. eds Organization and Affect: Understanding Ethics, the Body and Materiality. Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies, Routledge: London
McCann, L., Bozkurt, O., Finn, R., Granter, E., Hunter, C., Kivinen, N., Kumar, A. and Weirman, B. Encyclopaedia of Critical Management Studies. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham
Conference papers
Writing children, writing women - a study of children’s authors
Kivinen, N and Hunter C.
Gender, Work and Organisation Conference 2016 Stream: Writing: That which touches
Tactically Fun: Playing with identity in ‘fun’ organisational space
Hunter, C.
APROS conference, Sydney 2015
Branded subjectivity: Performativity and media professionals
Kivinen, N. and Hunter C.
British Academy of Management Conference, September 2015, Portsmouth University
Precarious writing: children’s authors as networked home-workers
Hunter C. and Kivinen, N.
The Standing Conference of Organisational Symbolism, July 2015, Nottingham Trent University
Leaky bodies and abject labour in magazine offices’
Kivinen, N. and Hunter C.
Gender, Work and Organisation Conference, June 2014, Keele University
The Sixth Art of Management and Organisation Conference
Carolyn Hunter (Stream convenor), 4 September 2012 → 7 September 2012
Critical Management Studies
Carolyn Hunter (Speaker), 11 July 2011 → 15 July 2011
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
Ephemera Conference: Work, Play and Boredom
Carolyn Hunter (Participant), 6 May 2010
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
Gender, Work and Organization
Carolyn Hunter (Participant), 22 June 2010
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
Critical Management Studies Conference
Carolyn Hunter (Participant), 14 July 2009
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
School for Business and Society
University of York
Church Lane Building
York Science Park
Heslington
York YO10 5ZFTel: +44 (0) 1904 325012
Email:
carolyn.hunter@york.ac.uk
Room: CL/A/119B
Subject Group
Work Management and Organisation
Feedback & Support hours
Wednesday 09.30 – 10.30 by appointment
Friday 11.00 – 12.00 by appointment