Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780367875695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Jen Sandler; Renita Thedvall

Opis

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 

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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]

O autorze

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.