Dr Casper Hoedemaekers
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874767
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Location
EBS.3.92, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911
Profile
Biography
Much of my research is aimed at studying individuals at work, how their work activities are shaped, managed and controlled, and how this impacts on their lives. Previous research has focused on performance management in public sector organisations, and more recently on the management and self-management of freelance work. I have drawn on social theory and psychoanalysis (notably that of Jacques Lacan) to conceptualise the ways in which everyday discourses and images influence taken-for-granted assumptions and routines in the workplace and outside of it. At the moment, I am running a research project that is focused on the labour process and context of freelance work, which involves research in the Netherlands, UK and Germany. Other research has focused on financialisation and higher education, strategies of deliberate controversy in advertising and journalism, and the labour of musicians, among other things. I am currently working on a research project that traces the discursive and stylistic influence of behaviouralpsychology on management.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Management Psychology (BE434)
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Research Project : Business Administration (BE932)
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Research Project - Marketing (BE933)
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Research Project - International Business and Entrepreneurship (BE934)
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Research Project - Tourism Management (BE935)
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Research Project - International Business and Finance (BE941)
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Experiencing Organisations: Reflexivity and Analysis (PA910)
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Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (BE486)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/7/2019
Degree subject: Management
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 23/7/2019
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 3/7/2019
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/7/2017
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 22/9/2016
Publications
Journal articles (14)
Hoedemaekers, C., (2021). "Selling themselves": conceptualising key features of freelance work experience. Culture and Organization. 27 (5), 345-364
Hoedemaekers, C., (2019). The fantasy of control: Behaviourist transgressions of neoliberal subjectivity. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. 24 (3), 303-322
Hoedemaekers, C., (2018). Creative work and affect: Social, political and fantasmatic dynamics in the labour of musicians. Human Relations. 71 (10), 1348-1370
Hoedemaekers, C., (2016). 'Work hard, play hard': Fantasies of nihilism and hedonism between work and consumption. Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. 16 (3), 61-94
Beverungen, A., Hoedemaekers, C. and Veldman, J., (2014). Charity and finance in the university. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 25 (1), 58-66
Cederstr�m, C. and Hoedemaekers, C., (2012). On dead dogs and unwritten jokes: Life in the university today. Scandinavian Journal of Management. 28 (3), 229-233
Beverungen, A., Dunne, S. and Hoedemaekers, C., (2012). The financialisation of business ethics. Business Ethics: A European Review. 22 (1), 102-117
Hoedemaekers, C., (2011). Viral marketing and imaginary ethics, or the joke that goes too far. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 16 (2), 162-178
Hoedemaekers, C., (2010). 'Not even semblance': exploring the interruption of identification with Lacan. Organization. 17 (3), 379-393
Hoedemaekers, C. and Keegan, A., (2010). Performance Pinned Down: Studying Subjectivity and the Language of Performance. Organization Studies. 31 (8), 1021-1044
Hoedemaekers, C., Dunne, S. and Beverungen, A., (2009). Editorial Introduction: The University of Finance. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 9 (4), 261-271
Hoedemaekers, C., (2009). Traversing the empty promise: management, subjectivity and the Other's desire. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 22 (2), 181-201
Hoedemaekers, C., (2008). Towards a sinthomatology of organization?. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 8 (1), 58-78
Hoedemaekers, C., (2007). Bringing Back the Subject. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 20 (1), 145-150
Book chapters (4)
Hoedemaekers, C., (2024). Lacan. In: Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology. Editors: bal, M., . Edward Elgar
Hoedemaekers, C., (2023). Between market and craft: understanding the specific challenges of freelance work. In: Handbook on Precarious Work. Editors: Hudson, M. and Piccoli, B., . Edward Elgar
Hoedemaekers, C., (2015). Commons and Organization: Potentiality and expropriation. In: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. Editors: Willmott, H., Mir, R. and Greenwood, M., . Routledge. 978-0-415-70286-7
Hoedemaekers, C. and Ybema, S., (2015). All of me: art, industry and identity struggles. In: Organising Music Theory, Practice, Performance. Editors: Beech, N. and Gilmore, C., . Cambridge University Press (CUP). 9781107040953
Grants and funding
2022
Augmented Engagement in Sustainable Cooperative Music Production
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Contact
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