ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter, ‘Contesting concepts at conferences’, speaks to some of the concerns of the project as a whole. The first part of the chapter summarises the achievements of the theorisation. The theorisation is also worked through in a more concise manner in order to facilitate application of the theorisation to other forms of knowledge production and other conceptual contestations. The second part of the chapter recalls the book’s aim to foreground conferences as research sites, particularly in forming a research agenda for sociologically informed conferences research. This part of the chapter synthesises the contributions that the book overall makes to research on conferences, and also sets out future research aims which are tied more closely to access to and within conferences. Finally the chapter concludes with an invitation to open up spaces for definitional politics to play out around the resignification of foundational concepts—no matter how uncomfortable this may be.
