Meeting Ethnography

Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-67769-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted “meeting ethnography” in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandler, Jen

Thedvall, Renita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

[Don Brenneis]

Introduction: Exploring the Boring

[Jen Sandler and Renita Thedvall]

1. Small Places, Big Stakes: World Economic Forum Meetings as Moments of Ethnographic Momentum

[Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom]

2. Learning to Meet

[Simone Abrams]

3. Meeting to Improve: Lean[ing] Swedish Public Preschools

[Renita Thedvall]

4. An Ethnography of Abjection: Education Policy Meetings in Malawi

[Nancy Kendall and Rachel Silver]

5. Meeting to Make Sense: The Use of Meetings to Constitute U.S. Social Reform Coalitions

[Jen Sandler]

6. The Asamblea: Social Protest and Political Mobilization in Contemporary Argentina

[Susann Baez Ullberg and Karin Skill]

7. How to Avoid Getting Stuck in Meetings: Finding the Limits of Meeting Ethnography for Community Studies

[Japonica Brown-Saracino and Meaghan Stiman]

8. Conclusion

[Helen B. Schwartzman]

Über Autor(innen)

Jen Sandler is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Renita Thedvall is Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics.