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Management consultant, business ethnographer/ anthropologist, vision enabler, thinker, listener, reader of books & the web, angry optimist
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Despite its stated lack of interest in “theory,” solution-focused brief therapy has produced a significant body of research literature. Techniques originating in this kind of therapy have also been applied to a growing variety of other fields such as coaching, counselling, facilitation, conflict resolution and management consulting. This article ex...
This essay attempts a contextual scan of research ethics as it applies to the broader discipline of anthropology, and as refracted through the lens of business anthropology, an applied subfield. Business anthropology is the application of anthropology to business problems. As a form of practicing anthropology, it raises a number of ethical problems...
I wrote this as a term paper for a graduate course in medical anthropology at the University of Toronto in 2016. I still enjoy the "kaleidoscopic" romp through medical ethics, social & cultural theory, philosophy and (barely) medical anthropology. I think the argument somewhat works and — if nothing else — provides a "different" way to think about...
This paper examines the role of documents in management consulting from an anthropological/STS perspective. It suggests that practical ethnographic insights can be derived by focusing on specific objects and their circulation. This may be useful to those struggling with problems of access when trying to study “up” (and others who are unable to use...
