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Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs)

Abram, S

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J Sandler
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R Thedvall
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Abstract

This chapter considers formalized meetings in local authorities, (or councils), primarily in Britain and Norway. Such local authorities, instances of the state at the local level, use standard formats for meetings between elected representatives, administrators and other participants. These meetings may vary in formality, in content, length, location or size, but they share a format that gives them legitimacy on behalf of the state. Participants have somehow to learn these formats and how to use them for different purposes. Some of the learning is implicit social learned practice, and some is explicit. I consider two instances of learning how to ‘do’ meetings where tacit and coercive norms are made explicit, which provide the exceptions to the rule of meeting-practices as tacit, learned, normative assumptions about ‘proper’ practice.

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Abram, S. (2017). Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs). In J. Sandler, & R. Thedvall (Eds.), Meeting ethnography : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance (46-68). Routledge

Acceptance Date Feb 6, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 24, 2017
Publication Date Mar 24, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 12, 2017
Publicly Available Date Sep 24, 2018
Publisher Routledge
Pages 46-68
Book Title Meeting ethnography : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance.
Chapter Number 2
ISBN 9781138677692
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/Meeting-Ethnography-Meetings-as-Key-Technologies-of-Contemporary-Governance/Sandler-Thedvall/p/book/9781138677692

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Meeting ethnography : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance on 24/03/2017 available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138677692





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