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If Truth Be Told : The Politics of Public Ethnography /

What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors explore the challenges, difficultie...

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Otros Autores: Fassin, Didier (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: when ethnography goes public / Didier Fassin
  • Strategies
  • Gopher, translator, and trickster : the ethnographer and the media / Gabriella Coleman
  • What is a public intervention? : speaking truth to the oppressed / Ghassan Hage
  • Before the commission: ethnography as public testimony / Kelly Gillespie
  • Addressing policy-oriented audiences: relevance and persuasiveness / Manuela Ivone Cunha
  • Engagements
  • Serendipitous involvement : making peace in the geto / Federico Neiburg
  • Tactical versus critical : indigenizing public ethnography / Lucas Bessire
  • Experto crede? : a legal and political conundrum / Jonathan Benthall
  • Policy ethnography as a combat sport : analyzing the welfare state against the grain / Vincent Dubois
  • Tensions
  • Academic freedom at risk : the occasional worldliness of scholarly texts / Nadia Abu El-Haj
  • Perils and prospects of going public : between academia and real life / Unni Wikan
  • Ethnography prosecuted : facing the fabulation of power / Jo?o Biehl
  • How publics shape ethnographers : translating across divided audiences / Sherine Hamdy
  • Epilogue: the public afterlife of ethnography / Didier Fassin.