The Imposter as Social Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans
Redaktion: Woolgar, Steve; Vogel, Else

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The figure of the imposter can stir complicated emotions, from intrigue to suspicion and fear. But what insights can these troublesome figures provide into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge? Edited by leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the question through a diverse range of empirical cases, including magicians, spirit possession, fake Instagram followers, fake art and fraudulent scientists. Proposing 'thinking with imposters' as a valuable new tool of analysis in the social sciences and humanities, this revolutionary book shows how the figure of the imposter can help upend social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529213096
• Artikelnr.: 70066197

Autorenporträt

Steve Woolgar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Linköping University and Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Thinking With Imposters: The Imposter As Analytic ~ Else Vogel, David
Moats, Steve Woolgar and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson The Desire to Believe and
Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North American Cultural Context ~
Caroline Rosenthal A Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik
Stapel and the Crisis in Psychology ~ Maarten Derksen Learning From Fakes:
A Relational Approach ~ Catelijne Coopmans Imitations of Celebrity ~ Mandy
Merck Natural Imposters?: A Cuckoos View of Social Relations ~ Martin
Abbott and Daniel Large Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of
Mundaneity ~ Brian Rappert States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the
Choreography of Suspicion~ James Kaufmann The Face of 'The Other':
Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters, and the Art of Outplaying Them ~
Kristina Grünenberg Faking Spirit Possession: Creating 'Epistemic Murk' in
Bahian Candomblé ~ Mattijs van de Port The Guerrilla's ID Card: Flatland
Against Fatland in Colombia ~ Olga Restrepo Forero and Malcolm Ashmore Good
Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and
Beyond ~ Johan Lindquist Thinking Beyond the Imposter: Gatecrashing
Un/Welcoming Borders ~ Fredy Mora-Gamez Postscript: Thinking With Imposters
- What Were They Thinking? ~ Agnes, Forrest Carter, Civet Coffee Bean,
Cuckoo, Iansá and Oxum, Sarah Jane, Han Van Meegeren, David Rosenhahn,
Diederik Stapel and Jorge Enrique Briceño Suárez