School of Management

Dr Valérie Fournier

Senior Lecturer In Organisation Studies

Telephone: +44 (0) 116 223 1064
Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 5515
Email: v.fournier@le.ac.uk

Office: Room 610, Ken Edwards Building.
Office Hours: TBA.

 

Brief Biography

Valérie joined Leicester University in 2004 having previously taught at Keele University and St Andrews University. She studied Economics and Management in France and moved to Edinburgh to study for a MBA (1989), then Manchester for a PhD (1992) on the socialisation process of graduate entering employment. Whilst at St Andrews, Keele and now Leicester she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Organisational Behaviour, Organisation Studies, HRM, Gender & Organisations, and more recently Alternative Organisations. Her writing so far has been concerned with disciplinary practices, subjectivity and embodiment in organisations, and has been published in a range of sociological and organisational journals such as Body & Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Organization and The Sociological Review . She currently divides her time between Leicester University and various communes in France and Italy.

Research Interests

Her current research interests centre on alternative organisations and economies and include: rural economies and sustainable development, alternative forms of exchange and markets, co-operative and communal organisational structures, and critical pedagogy.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Fournier, V. (2008) Escaping from the Economy: The politics of degrowth, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28 (11/12):528-545. (ISSN 0144-333X)

Parker, M, Fournier, V and Reedy, P (2007) The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. London: Zed Books.

Fournier, V. (2006) Breaking from the weight of the eternal present: Teaching organisational difference, Management Learning, 37(3): 295-311. (ISSN: 1350-5076).

Fournier, V. and Smith, W. (2006) Scripting Masculinity, Ephemera, 6(2): 141-162. (ISSN: 1473-2866).

Fournier, V. (2005) Yes, in C. Jones and D. O'Doherty (eds.) Organize! Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow. Finland: Dvalin, pp. 198-205 (ISBN 952-91-8907 for print version, 952-91-8908-7 for pdf version).

Fournier, V., Virtanen, A. and Vähämäki, J. (2004), translation of M. Lazzarato, From Capital-Labour to Capital-Life, Ephemera 4(3): 187-208 (ISSN: 1473-2866).

Fournier, V. (2003) Utopianism and Grassroots alternatives, in A. Shostak (ed.) Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world . Arkmond, NY: Sharpe. (ISBN:0-7656-1105-8).

Fournier, V. (2002) Utopianism and the Cultivation of Possibilities: Grassroots movements of hope, in M. Parker (ed.) Utopia and Organization . Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 189-216.(ISBN: 1-4051-0072-9).

Fournier, V. (2002) Fleshing out gender: Crafting gender identity on women's bodies, Body & Society , 8(2):55-77. (ISSN:1357-034X).

Fournier, V. (2002) Keeping the veil of otherness: Practising disconnection, in B. Czarniawska and H. Hopfl (eds.), Casting the Other: The production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations . London: Routledge, pp. 68-88. (ISBN:0-415-27502-4).

Fournier, V. and Lightfoot, G. (2002) Stages of busi(-)ness and identity. Ethnologies , Special Issue on Space. (ISSN: 1481-5974).

Fournier, V. and Kelemen, M. (2001) The crafting of community: Recoupling discourses of management and womanhood, Gender, Work & Organization , 8 (3): 267-290 (ISSN: 0968-6673).

Smith, W. and Fournier, V. (2001) The sense of violence and the absence of consolation, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies , 7(1): 127-146. (ISSN: 1024-5286).

Lightfoot, G. and Fournier, V. (2000) As condições do cotidiano: Organizando rotinas em negócios familiares, Organizações & Sociedade , 7 (18): 81-98. (ISSN: 1413-585x).

Fournier, V. and Grey, C. (2000) At the critical moment: conditions and prospects for critical management studies, Human Relations , 53 (1): 7-32 (ISSN: 0018-7267).

Fournier, V. (2001) Amateurism, Quackery and Professional Conduct: the constitution of 'proper' aromatherapy practice, in M. Dent and S. Whitehead (eds.) Managing professional identities: knowledge, performativities and the 'new' professional . London: Routledge, pp. 116-137. (ISBN:0-415-23120-5).

Fournier, V. (2000) Boundary work and the (un-) making of the professions, in N. Malin (ed.) Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace , London: Routledge, pp. 67-86. (ISBN: 0-415-19263-3).

Teaching

• Alternative Economies.
• Critical perspectives on HRM.