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Op 22 en 23 april 2010 werd in Utrecht in het gebouw van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek het eerste internationale congres gehouden dat ooit door KWALON is georganiseerd. Initiator en hoofdorganisator Jeanine Evers had hiervoor een samenwerkingsverband ontwikkeld met onze Vlaamse zusterorganisatie KwalitatiefSterk, het Duitse Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) en het Britse CAQDAS networking project (University of Surrey). De conferentie werd bovendien ondersteund door de Universiteit van Humanistiek en DANS (KNAW).

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The section News gives an overview of current events.

Na een succesvolle eerste conferentie in 2010 heeft KWALON een tweede internationale conferentie georganiseerd over software voor kwalitatieve data-analyse. De conferentie Reflecting on the future of QDA software vond plaats in Rotterdam. Rotterdam is een geweldige stad voor een internationale conferentie en we hoorden gasten vol enthousiasme vertellen over de hop-on-hop-off-bus, de watertaxi, de Koopgoot, de musea en de skyline.

Reinoud Bosch, Power: A conceptual analysis. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2016, 430 pp., ISBN 978-94-6236-680-0, €56,50.

Business event as fieldwork site?
A major methodological problem in the ethnographic study of international business elites is to make visible the social relations they draw and depend on. Business elites constitute a highly mobile social category and they mediate a growing portion of everyday social interaction via online, digital means. They are elusive, therefore, and that compromises the possibility of making direct observations of their social practices, which erodes the scope to ethnographically study this important group in the world economy. The essay shows how fieldwork on business events, such as conferences, expositions, and trade fairs, can help to overcome this problem. Such events constitute focal points and moments of crystallization in globally operating social networks, making visible a part of the international business 'theatre' that normally lags hidden. By presenting excerpts from recent fieldwork carried out in Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands, I give an impression of observables in this theatre, aiming especially at fostering an awareness of social behavior 'backstage' with a view to formulating further questions. The essay concludes with a plea to include business events as 'field schools' in study programs looking at international business elites, such as business schools and/or business economics.