I am a postdoctoral researcher in the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Currently I work as a Research Fellow in FiDiPro project Social Science for the C21st led by Prof. Lisa Adkins.
My research interests are capitalism, affect theory, labour history, management theory and industrial relations. Theoretically and methodologically my work is rooted in affect theory, cultural studies, cultural history and economic sociology. I am one of the founding members of a research collective Affective Capitalism developed at University of Turku in 2013-2015.
I defended my doctoral dissertation, Affektitehdas. Työn rationalisoinnin historiallisia jatkumoita [Affect Factory: Rationalisation of Labour in Historical Continuums] in September 2015. My thesis is an interdisciplinary work that engages with on-going debates concerning post-Fordist politics, affects and labour. The dissertation received two awards: The Faculty of Humanities award for PhD of the year 2015 and the prize for a distinguished dissertation accepted in the University of Turku during the academic year 2015-2016 granted by Turku Finnish University Association.
In 2018 I will be working with a book-length manuscript contracted with Gaudeamus University Press and tentatively titled Sielutieteestä neurotieteeseen: työnjohto-opit Suomessa 1940-luvulta 2010-luvulle. The manuscript is part of my postdoctoral research plan From the Economics of Nervous Energy to Affective Neuroscience: Finnish Management Theories from 1940s to 2010s. The project sets out to conceptualize, historicize and theorize connections between affect, management theories and the rationalization of labour in Finland. Drawing on archival data and management texts, the project sheds light on how affective managerial interventions modulate socio-economic infrastructures.
Contact information: mona.mannevuo@utu.fi