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The imposter as social theory : thinking with gatecrashers, cheats and charlatans /
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 throu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Epigraph
- The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Thinking with Imposters: The Imposter as Analytic
- Imposter moments
- Imposters in social theory
- Impostering as performance
- The hoax and the imposters' critical potential
- 'Natural' imposters
- Imposters beyond deviance
- Thinking with imposters
- Imposter dramas
- Conclusion
- References
- 2 The Desire to Believe and Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North American Cultural Context
- The art of faking: imposture as successful identity performance
- Two cases of ethnic impersonation and their cultural context
- 'Canada's most famous fake'6: Archibald Belaney alias Grey Owl
- Truer than the real thing: imposture and its audience
- References
- 3 A Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik Stapel and the Crisis in Psychology
- Introduction
- Fabrication
- Not unique
- Derailment
- Imposters and wannabes
- Transparency
- Thinking with imposters
- Epilogue
- Coda: Imitation of Death
- Cheryl Crane (2012)
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 6 Natural Imposters? A Cuckoo View of Social Relations
- Introducing the common cuckoo: 'the quintessential cheat'?
- The cuckoo in entanglement with heartfelt matters
- Reproductive relations
- Familial relations
- Intimate relations
- The cuckoo: an imposter entangled?
- Reproductive
- Familial
- Intimate
- Summary
- Cuckoo! The upshot of unsettling reproductive, familial and intimate relations
- References
- 7 Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity
- Motley impostures
- Skilful deceptions?
- Brian-the-conjuror: cultural beliefs and the constitution of skill
- Brian-the-conjuror: scientific insights and the constitution of perception
- References
- 8 States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion
- Introduction
- Scroungerphobia and the anxieties of imposition
- Welfare-to-work and behavioural conditionality
- Street-level ethnography
- 'Scroungerphobia' and the uncertain drama of suspicion
- Managerialism, verification and the administration of suspicion
- States of imposture
- Disordering the welfare state
- References