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

• Other Authors: Sandler, Jen (Editor), Thedvall, Renita (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
• Series: Routledge Research in STEM Education
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociology; Business communication & presentation; Adrienne SRbom; Christina Garsten; Helen B. Schwartzman; Japonica Brown-Saracino; Karin Skill; Meaghan Stiman; Nancy Kendall; Rachel Silver; Renita Thedvall; Simone Abram; Susann Baez Ullberg
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.