Michele Hanks

Doubting Ghosts

Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or 'ghost hunters' and will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032655789
• ISBN-10: 103265578X
• Artikelnr.: 72210425

Autorenporträt

Michele Hanks is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University. She is interested in people's experiences of conviction and doubt. This led to her to conduct ethnographic fieldwork with paranormal investigators in England. More recently, she has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork with psychics in the U.S. to understand the affective and political dynamics of their labor. She is the author of Haunted Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Creaky Floorboards and Flat Worlds: The Politics of Belief
in the 21st Century 2. Laughing in the Face of Rationality: Paranormal
Humor and the Recognition of Multiple Subjectivities 3. Enchanted
Electricity: Theorizing the Paranormal 4. Doubtful Spirits: Critiquing
Mediums 5. Visualizing the Heebie-Jeebies: Technologies of Detection and
the Production of Anomalies 6. Everyday Eruptions: Conspiracy Theorizing
and the Power of Doubt Conclusion