Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence’: navigating the bureaucratic process of urban regeneration in East London

Evans, G. Edward

doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12598

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“…But in other instances, intelligibility across multiple registers is the explicit goal. We see this, for example, in a JRAI special issue on meetings (Abram ; Alexander ; Brown and Green ; Brown, Reed, and Yarrow ; Corsín Jiménez and Estalella ; Evans ; Keenan and Pottage ; Lamp ; Nielsen ; Reed ; Riles ; Strathern ; Yarrow ). As Hannah Brown, Adam Reed, and Thomas Yarrow () put it in their introduction, “meetings contain and animate social worlds outside the spatially and temporally demarcated arenas through which they take place” (11).…”

Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…2 Alternatively, consider meeting minutes as an overlooked element in literature. In the analysis of meeting minutes of a land allotment society, Evans (2017) demonstrates that minutes reveal insights about organizational memory and participant action even though the minutes are sanitized to exclude the "subjective vagaries of interpersonal dynamics" (p. 126). In the same vein, minutes of a faculty meeting, when noted, may offer rich insights on how meeting records influence school memory of performance measures and maneuver the way forward.…”

Section: Meetings Are Predominantly Noted With Limited Detailsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The overlooked meeting elements, such as meeting location and meeting minutes, are significant in shaping meaning-making and professional knowledge (Evans, 2017; Lamp, 2017; Yarrow, 2017). Yarrow’s case study, for instance, powerfully illustrates how the location of a meeting shapes what type of professional knowledge is developed and shared.…”

Section: Meetings Are Predominantly Noted With Limited Detailsmentioning

confidence: 99%

School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice

Midha¹

2021

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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This paper systematically reviews literature on meetings of the principal or principal meetings from 1970 to 2021. Even though meetings comprise the largest percentage of principal time, they have been overlooked as a topic of research. The purpose of this review is to study notations of meetings in academic literature and develop analytical insights on school leadership practice. The systematic literature search used keyword search, snowballing, and personal network references to yield 62 academic publications. The results of the review indicate that educational literature provides limited and often summative notations of principal meetings. Importantly, the limited notations are still able to illuminate and nuance three dimensions of school principalship – bridging, bending, and balancing. Further, three possible conceptualizations of principal meetings as waste of time, familiar events, and intervention tools provide analytical insights into meetings as a microcosm of school principal practice. Implications for theory, practice, and further research are provided.

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“…Through minutes, meetings materialize as a part of the physical organization (Evans, 2017), and the organization expects its meetings to produce specific documents. Therefore, the meeting acts as an agent that affects the way the group communicates and, at the same time, as an agent that organizes the organization's formal structure through minutes.…”

Section: M2mentioning

confidence: 99%

Problem Talk in Management Group Meetings

Laapotti

Mikkola

2019

Small Group Research

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This naturalistic study focuses on problem talk (PT) in hospital management group meetings. The study aims to understand how PT constitutes the hospital organization through the different uses of PT within the meetings, and, therefore, to understand the organizing role of these meetings. The communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) perspective forms the theoretical background of the research. The results of the qualitative analysis show that PT comprises many intertwined tasks that aim to perform the meetings, enhance problem solving, and maintain the relational level of group life. Thus, PT is much more than merely solving problems. In PT, problems are discussed from the viewpoints of the group and the organization. Meetings as an institution and as a nonhuman agent affect organizing because they influence both the group’s communication and organizational processes. Future research on groups should develop the use of the CCO concept of nonhuman agency.

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Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence’: navigating the bureaucratic process of urban regeneration in East London

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice

Problem Talk in Management Group Meetings

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