Screen LibraryEthnographies 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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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53097-0 |
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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. . |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(X,138pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319530970 |
| Index Number: | GN301 |
| CLC: | C912 |
| 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: I |