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Im/mobile method/ologies (2017)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2017). Im/mobile method/ologies. In A. Elliot, R. Norum, & N. Salazar (Eds.), Methodologies of mobility : ethnography and experiment (195-200). Berghahn Books

Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs) (2017)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2017). Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs). In J. Sandler, & R. Thedvall (Eds.), Meeting ethnography : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance (46-68). Routledge

This chapter considers formalized meetings in local authorities, (or councils), primarily in Britain and Norway. Such local authorities, instances of the state at the local level, use standard formats for meetings between elected representatives, adm... Read More about Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs).

Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government (2017)
Journal Article
Abram, S. (2017). Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12592

Meetings are the apotheosis of contemporary bureaucratic life, containing dilemmas and contradictions that are at the heart of modernity. In particular, political and bureaucratic meetings (both state and civic) are ritual performances in which rules... Read More about Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government.

Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North (2016)
Book
Abram, S., & Lund, K. (2017). Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58736-7

Tourism has been expanding rapidly in the European Arctic alongside growing international interest in the Arctic as a site of extreme, palpable climate change. This chapter explores the idea of tourism ecologies, tracing the development of tourism in... Read More about Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North.

An archaeology of Arctic travel journalism (2016)
Journal Article
Abram, S., & Norum, R. (2016). An archaeology of Arctic travel journalism. Studies in Travel Writing, 20(3), 272-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2016.1230292

Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the attention to tourism practices, a surprising lacuna exists around the industry that fuels the production and circulation of travel writing and photograph... Read More about An archaeology of Arctic travel journalism.

The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013 (2016)
Journal Article
Abram, S., Feldman Bianco, B., Khosravi, S., Salazar, N., & de Genova, N. (2017). The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 24(3), 123-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2016.1142879

This article contains the text and discussion of a debate held at the IUAES World Congress in Anthropology at Manchester University in 2013. The motion was proposed by Bela Feldman-Bianco (State University of Campinas), seconded by Noel Salazar (Univ... Read More about The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013.

Special Module: Plenary Debate from the IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013 (2016)
Journal Article
Abram, S., Acciaioli, G., Baviskar, A., Kopnina, H., Nonini, D., & Strang, V. (2016). Special Module: Plenary Debate from the IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013. Anthropological Forum, 26(1), 74-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2015.1102229

This module for Involving Anthropology presents an account of one of the plenary debates held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) World Congress held at Manchester University, 5-10 August 2013. The module b... Read More about Special Module: Plenary Debate from the IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013.

Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology (2015)
Book Chapter
Abram, S., & Pink, S. (2015). Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology. In S. Pink, & S. Abram (Eds.), Media, anthropology and public engagement (1-22). Berghan Books

Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway (2014)
Journal Article
Abram, S. (2014). Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 12(3), 253-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2014.938854

This paper examines the multiple forms of value invested in holiday properties among some Norwegian families. Holiday homes – summer houses, mountain cabins and country houses – are common in Norway, as are many of the practices through which they ar... Read More about Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway.

The time it takes: temporalities of planning. (2014)
Journal Article
Abram, S. (2014). The time it takes: temporalities of planning. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(S1), 129 -147. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12097

State planning has been a defining means for modern subjects to regulate the passage of time. In practice, it is the focus of multiple conflicts and doubts, which planners attempt to mediate. In this paper, I address the regimes of time that planning... Read More about The time it takes: temporalities of planning..