"Organisational Anthropology," newly published in paperback, is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations. The book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation's members. The contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more classical anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer. These include the ideological or financial interests...
"Organisational Anthropology," newly published in paperback, is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex...
Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is a close up and detailed study through Sweden's remade national pension system. Nyqvist examines how a policy, such as a national pension system, shifts responsibility from state to individuals and, thus, work to reconfigure the state-citizen relationship.
Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is a close up and detailed study through Sweden's remade national ...
This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions.
This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-s...
