Title: Ethnographies of conferences and trade fairs : shaping industries, creating professionals /
Authors: Leivestad, Hege Høyer,; Nyqvist, Anette,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Professions Sociological aspects.; Congresses and conventions Sociological aspects.; Trade shows Sociological aspects.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Individuals and industries: large-scale professional gatherings as ethnographic fields / Anette Nyqvist, Hege Høyer Leivestad and Hans Tunestad -- Scheduled schmoozing: notes on interludal practices at responsible investors' conferences / Anette Nyqvist -- White corporate feminine spirituality: the rise of global professional women's conferences in the new millennium / Melissa Fisher -- The therapeutic square: the psychotherapy fair from an anthropological perspective / Hans Tunestad -- Establishing the complexity of obesity: the conference as a site of understanding obesity as a medical condition / Mia Forrest -- The biennial of Dakar: scales of art worlds-networks / Thomas Fillitz -- Beyond informality: intimacy and commerce at the caravanning trade fair / Hege Høyer Leivestad -- Traversing trade fairs and fashion weeks: on dependence and disavowal in the Indian fashion industry / Tereza Kuldova.