Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs : Shaping Industries, Creating Professionals

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Høyer Leivestad, Hege. (Editor), Nyqvist, Anette. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Trade.
Business.
Commerce.
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Economic sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9783319530970
Physical Description: X, 174 p. online resource.

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505 0 |a 1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields -- 2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors' Conferences -- 3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women's Conferences in the New Millennium -- 4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective -- 5. Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition -- 6. The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks -- 7. Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair -- 8. Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry. 
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