Meeting ethnography : : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance / / edited by Jen Sandler and Renita Thedvall.

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...

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Superior document:Routledge Studies in Anthropology ; 37
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, London : : Routledge,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1 ed.
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in anthropology ; 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource (193 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mapping international development relations through meeting ethnography / Nancy Kendall and Rachel Silver
  • 2. Learning to meet (or how to talk to chairs) / Simone Abram
  • 3. Argentinean Asamblea meetings as assemblage : presence in emergence / Susann Baez Ullberg and Karin Skill
  • 4. How to avoid getting stuck in meetings : on the value of recognizing the limits of meeting ethnography for community studies / Japonica Brown-Saracino and Meaghan Stiman
  • 5. Meetings all the way through : United States broad-based reform coalitions and the thickening of American democracy / Jen Sandler
  • 6. Small places, big stakes : meetings as moments of ethnographic momentum / Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sorbom
  • 7. Meeting to improve : lean[ing] Swedish public preschools / Renita Thedvall.