Affect in Organization and Management

Carolyn Hunter is Senior Lecturer at the York Management School, University of York, UK.Nina Kivinen is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: Affect in Organization and Management 2. Sara Ahmed: A Return to Emotions 3. In the Worlding of Kathleen Stewart: Daydreaming a Conversation with ‘SHE’ 4. In the Web of the Spider-Woman: Towards a New Cosmopolitics of Familiarity and Kinship in Organization (Donna Haraway) 5. Jane Bennett: Marvelling at a World of Vibrant Matter 6. Becoming with Barad: A Material-Discursive-Affective Conversation 7. Corporeal Ethics in the More-Than-Human World (Rosalyn Diprose)

"This book on affect and embodiment in organizations offers a much needed alternative to the reductionist mainstream discourse on management and organizing! Some key ideas in this area coined by women authors from Donna Haraway to Kathleen Stewart are presented and discussed from the perspective of organization theory and practice. Fascinating and timely read!"Monika Kostera, Jagiellonian University, Poland"This book brings together a fine collection of commentaries on some of the most important women writers on affect, and it does so in a way which shows why and how affect matters in work and organization."Torkild Thanem, Stockholm University