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Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs
Shaping Industries, Creating Professionals
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Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Veröffentl.: | 21.06.2017 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783319530970 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional gatherings are remarkable events that require deeper analysis and scholarly attention. </p>
1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields<div>2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences</div><div>3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium</div><div>4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective</div><div>5. Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition</div><div>6. The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks</div><div>7. Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair</div><div>8. Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry</div>
<p>Hege Høyer Leivestad is a researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. </p><p>Anette Nyqvist is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. </p>
<p>This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional gatherings are remarkable events that require deeper analysis and scholarly attention. </p>
<p>Explores networking and other social processes at large-scale professional gatherings</p><p>Argues that conferences and trade fairs allow industries to develop</p><p>Asserts that conferences and trade fairs are excellent sites for ethnographic research</p>