Special Issue: "Towards an Ethnography of Meeting"

[christoph (Christoph Haug)]

@t.g.yarrow

I and the other editors came to the topic of meetings mostly by accident i

Interestingly, this seems to be a recurring topic among meeting researchers…

How I got interested in meetings

Over the years, I have talked to quite a number of people with whom I shared an interest in meetings and one thing that struck me was that almost everyone (including myself) told a story of how they were initially interested in something else and something then triggered their interest in meetings, i.e. to look at things from a meetings perspective. It would be great to collect these stories here, so here is mine: I started out studying decision-making in social movements (the Global Justice Movements, to be precise) with a background in theories of deliberation and deliberative democracy. A…