Meeting – Doing Politics

3.1 Tuesday 13 March 2018

It was a day of meetings, after a draft agreement between the employers (UUK) and the union (UCU) had been published the night before […]

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3.2 Gathering, demonstration, event

Sometimes what gathers is a crowd. People may gather in response to a shortage of food, a miscarriage of justice, a strike or a terrorist attack, for example, or as observers of or witnesses to some other activity: at a vigil, at the presence of a prominent figure, or at a parade […]

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3.3 Town Council, Bernice, LA

Bernice, Louisiana has a population of less than 2 000. Paul Shambroom’s photograph shows its Town Council meeting of 14 May 2002: it’s one of a series taken of town meetings, part of a broader investigation of the way power works in turn-of-the century America […]

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3.4 Political meeting

In Yemen, people gather to chew qãt, a leaf which releases a juice with properties similar to caffeine. Chews occur daily in public or semipublic spaces, sometimes in the rooms of large houses, or the offices of civic associations. They’re an opportunity for talk […]

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3.5 Budget day, Leeds, 2011

Simon Roberts’s photograph, from the series Star Chambers, was taken as protestors disrupted Leeds City Council’s approving budget cuts of £90m, including 1500 jobs. It shows a meeting and a demonstration, one superimposed on the other […]

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3.6 In committee

In anthropology, the meeting is important as an occasion for speech, for the use of political language; in the sociology of organization, specifically in its constructionist form, it is that moment in which an organization is ‘enacted’ or brought into being […]

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3.7 Backstage

The meeting might be read as a performance in the very particular sense that it has been prepared, if not rehearsed in a ‘pre-meeting’. This takes place offstage if not backstage […]

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3.8 At Rambouillet

In February 1999, delegations from Kosovo and Serbia met diplomatic representatives of France Germany, Italy, Russia, the UK and the US at Rambouillet, a chateau on the outskirts of Paris. The international community – the so-called Contact Group formed in 1994 – was seeking an end to violence in Kosovo […]

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