The meeting has become a universal practice, an experience that belongs to the everyday of many people around the world. Yet, it has taken time for anthropologists to look at what goes on in meetings.
This year Renita Thedvall, Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, and Jen Sandler, Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, published the edited volume “Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development and Resistance” (Routledge).
Online conversations
Allegralaboratory.net convened two online meetings with Renita Thedvall and Jen Sandler (amongst others) to discuss their latest publication and research.
On the agenda were e.g. questions on anthropologists’ neglect for meetings as ethnographic subject of inquiry; the importance of performance in meetings; the nature of meetings’ power; and the ethics of meetings.
First (Virtual) Meeting on Meeting (MoM)
Second (Virtual) Meeting on Meeting (MoM)
Further information
Find out more about Renita Thedvall’s research.
Learn more about Thedvall and Sandler (2017). “Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development and Resistance”. Routledge.