Fassin If Truth Be Told

The Politics of Public Ethnography
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7287-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

The contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the difficulties, dangers, and stakes of having ethnographic research made available, debated, and appropriated by the public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fassin, Didier

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: When Ethnography Goes Public / Didier Fassin 1
Part I. Strategies
1. Gopher, Translator, and Trickster: The Ethnographer and the Media / Gabriella Coleman 19
2. What Is a Public Intervention? Speaking Truth to the Oppressed / Ghassan Hage 47
3. Before the Commission: Ethnography as Pubic Testimony / Kelly Gillespie 69
4. Addressing Policy-Oriented Audiences: Relevance and Persuasiveness / Manuela Ivone Cunha 96
Part II. Engagements
5. Serendipitous Involvement: Making Peace in the Geto / Federico Neiburg 119
6. Tactical versus Critical: Indigenizing Public Ethnography / Lucas Bessire 138
7. Experto Crede? A Legal and Political Conundrum / Jonathan Benthall 160
8. Policy Ethnography as a Combat Sport: Analyzing the Welfare State against the Grain / Vincent Dubois 184
Part III. Tensions
9. Academic Freedom at Risk: The Occasional Worldliness of Scholarly Texts / Nadia Abu El-Haj 205
10. Perils and Prospects of Going Public: Between Academia and Real Life / Unni Wikan 228
11. Ethnography Prosecuted: Facing the Fabulation of Power / João Biehl 261
12. How Publics Shape Ethnographers: Translating across Divided Audiences / Sherine Hamdy 287
Epilogue: The Public Afterlife of Ethnography / Didier Fassin 311
Contributors 345
Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author and editor of many books, most recently, Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition.