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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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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.