The Anthropology of Organisations offers a critical overview of the work that for over sixty years anthropologists have been carrying out in and on organisations and of the contribution that this work has made to social theory at large. Moving beyond earlier preoccupations with 'culture' and 'relationality', the volume brings together a selection of classic and contemporary articles that cast new light on the relevance of ethnography for organisational and social theory. It offers an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in the politics behind the institutionalisation of...
The Anthropology of Organisations offers a critical overview of the work that for over sixty years anthropologists have been carrying out in and on or...
Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods, ' 'the commons' or 'global justice' create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of adjudication between the big and the small, this book inquires instead into the cultural epistemology fueling the aggrandizement and miniaturization of description itself. Incorporating analytical frameworks from science studies, ethnography, and political and economic theory, this book charts an...
Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods, ' 'the comm...
