Overview

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. 

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Author:   Hege Høyer Leivestad ,  Anette Nyqvist
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   2.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319850610

ISBN 10:   331985061
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   13 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective5. Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition6. The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks7. Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair8. Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry

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Hege Høyer Leivestad is a researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.   Anette Nyqvist is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. 

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