Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs : Shaping Industries, Creating Professionals / / edited by Hege Høyer Leivestad, Anette Nyqvist

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 174 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology; Ethnography; Economic sociology; Trade; Business; Commerce; Social Anthropology; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
• Persona (resp. second.): Høyer LeivestadHege; NyqvistAnette
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. .
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs
• ISBN: 3-319-53097-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910252713103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II