Disentangling discretionary governance -- Liquid mandate -- Setting precedence -- The status machinery -- Mobilizing for the future -- Political sway -- Conclusions : a new narrative for future globalization?

In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They...

Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- 1. Entries: Engaging organisational worlds - Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist -- Section One: Corporate Corridors -- 2. Counter Intelligence: The contingencies of clerkship at the epicentre of convenience culture - Gavin Hamilton...