Meetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy and Assembly

Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Meeting (Hannah Brown, Adam Reed & Thomas Yarrow)1. Contradiction in Contemporary Political Life (Simone Abram)2. Demonstrating Development: Meetings as Management in Kenya's Health Sector (Hannah Brown & Maia Green)3. The Receding Horizon of Informality in WTO Meetings (Nicholas Lamp)4. The Meeting as Subjunctive Form (Catherine Alexander)5. Where Knowledge Meets: Heritage Expertise at the Intersection of People, Perspective and Place (Thomas Yarrow)6. Political Exhaustion and the Experiment of Street (Alberto Corsín Jiménez and Adolfo Estalella)7. Minutes, Meetings and 'Modes of Existence': Navigating the Bureaucratic process of urban regeneration in East London (Gillian Evans)8. Ideological Twinning: Socialist Aesthetics and Political Meetings in Maputo, Mozambique (Morten Nielsen)9. Ethics in Rehearsal (Bernard Keenan & Alain Pottage)10. An Office of Ethics: Meetings, Roles and Moral Enthusiasm in Animal Protection (Adam Reed)11. Outputs (Annelise Riles)Afterword (Marilyn Strathern)Index