Meeting Ethnography

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

Jen Sandler, Renita Thedvall, Jen Sandler, Renita Thedvall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317195092
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Meetings & Presentations
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Exploring the Boring – An Introduction to Meeting Ethnography
• 1 Mapping International Development Relations through Meeting Ethnography
• 2 Learning to Meet (or How to Talk to Chairs)
• 3 Argentinean Asamblea Meetings as Assemblage: Presence in Emergence
• 4 How to Avoid Getting Stuck in Meetings: On the Value of Recognizing the Limits of Meeting Ethnography for Community Studies
• 5 Meetings All the Way Through: United States Broad-based Reform Coalitions and the Thickening of American Democracy
• 6 Small Places, Big Stakes: Meetings as Moments of Ethnographic Momentum
• 7 Meeting to Improve: Lean[ing] Swedish Public Preschools
• Conclusion: The Meeting and the Mirror
• Notes on Contributors
• Index