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 Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Trade.
Business.
Commerce.
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Economic sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319530970
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53097-0
Physical DescriptionX, 174 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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