Description
Book Synopsis In both professional and academic fields, there is increasing interest in the way in which white-collar workers engage with institutions and networks which are complex social constructions. Covering a wide variety of countries and types of organization, this volume examines the diverse ways in which individuals’ ethnic, gender, corporate and professional identities interact. This book brings together fields often viewed in isolation: ethnographies of groups traditionally studied by anthropologists in new organisational contexts, and examinations of the role of identity in corporate life, opening up new perspectives on central areas of contemporary human activity. It will be of great interest to those concerned with practical management of institutions, as well as those of us who find ourselves working within them.
Trade Review “…the case studies…do, together, speak to methodological issues that are about more than the enrichment of a sub-field…[The volume’s] publication is well timed to pause a pause for thinking about what, analytically, anthropology has to offer amidst the crisis of corporatist failure.” · JRAI
Table of Contents List of Figures
Preface
Shirley Ardener
Introduction: Bridging Businesses and Bureaucracies
Fiona Moore
Chapter 1. Matters of the Heart: The Business of English Rugby League
Margaret Groeneveld
Chapter 2. When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Finance-scape
Fiona Moore
Chapter 3. Image and Reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian Immigrants
Esther Herzog
Chapter 4. Loyalty and Politics: The Discourses of Liberalisation
Simone Abram
Chapter 5. Identities under Construction: The Case of International Education
Hilary Callan
Chapter 6. Portrait of an Aid Donor: A Profile of DFID
Anne Coles
Chapter 7. Identity Construction in Development Practices: The Government of Ghana, Civil Society, Private Sector and Development Partners
Lindsay Whitfield
