Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance [Paperback]

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 doand how mightethnographers 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.

Foreword

[Don Brenneis]

Introduction: Exploring the Boring

[Jen Sandler and Renita Thedvall]

1. Small Places, Big Stakes: World Economic Forum Meetings as Moments of Ethnographic Momentum

[Christina Garsten and Adrienne S?rbom]

2. Learning to Meet

[Simone Abrams]

3. Meeting to Improve: Lean[ing] Swedish Public Preschools

[Renita Thedvall]

4. An Ethnography of Abjection: Education Policy Meetings in Malawi

[Nancy Kendall and Rachel Silver]

5. Meeting to Make Sense: The Use of Meetings to Constitute U.S. Social Reform Coalitions

[Jen Sandler]

6. The Asamblea: Social ló;