Professional Identities: Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Professional Identities

Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

Edited by: Shirley Ardener and Fiona Moore

Volume 3 in the series Social Identities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458865

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

Fiona Moore is a Lecturer in International Human Resource Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, and also a member of the International Gender Studies Centre at Queen Elizabeth House.

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

Reviews

“…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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Shirley Ardener Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: bridging businesses and bureaucracies Fiona Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Matters of the heart: the business of English Rugby League Margaret Groeneveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. When worlds collide: British bureaucracy meets German bureaucracy in the global financescape Fiona Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Image and reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian immigrants Esther Herzog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. Loyalty and politics: the discourses of liberalisation Simone Abram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Identities under construction: the case of international education Hilary Callan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. Portrait of an aid donor: a profile of DFID Anne Coles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Identity construction in development practices: the government of Ghana, civil society, private sector and development partners Lindsay Whitfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Applied Anthropology; Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published: August 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780857458865