{"product_id":"if-truth-be-told-9780822369776","title":"If Truth Be Told","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eIf Truth Be Told\u003c\/i\u003e explore the difficulties, dangers, and stakes of having ethnographic research made available, debated, and appropriated by the public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] must-read for every student of anthropology, policy maker and administrator trying to understand the complexities of the social world we inhabit.\"  -- Sarbani Sharma * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\"A stimulating collection of articles that illustrates, examines, and generates important questions about the project of public ethnography, and about public social science more generally. It deserves to be widely read.\" -- Martyn Hammersley * Canadian Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIf Truth Be Told\u003c\/i\u003e offers thoughtful, reflexive accounts of the public afterlife of ethnography that will surely spark a range of productive exchanges among scholars invested in the public reach of social science research.\" -- Colin Hastings, Leigha Comer, \u0026amp; Eric Mykhalovskiy * Forum: Qualitative Social Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"In presenting some of the possibilities and challenges that 'going public' entails, this volume is essential reading for researchers embarking on public ethnography, and for departments and funders who encourage engagement beyond academia. \u003ci\u003eIf Truth Be Told\u003c\/i\u003e is equally important for those who do not see their work as being particularly public-facing; any published work can take on a public afterlife beyond the author’s intentions.\" -- Laura Haapio-Kirk * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this important new collection,\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDidier Fassin and his colleagues stake a powerful and innovative claim on the diverse landscape of anthropology’s history of public engagement.\" -- Alyshia Galvez * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"[This] book is a wonderful contribution that further helps to reflect upon the role of ethnography, and the constant challenges it must face when trying to go beyond academia and engage with wider audiences.\" -- Sebastian Rojas Navarro * Sociological Research Online *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: When Ethnography Goes Public \/ Didier Fassin  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Strategies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Gopher, Translator, and Trickster: The Ethnographer and the Media \/ Gabriella Coleman  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. What Is a Public Intervention? Speaking Truth to the Oppressed \/ Ghassan Hage  47\u003cbr\u003e 3. Before the Commission: Ethnography as Pubic Testimony \/ Kelly Gillespie  69\u003cbr\u003e 4. Addressing Policy-Oriented Audiences: Relevance and Persuasiveness \/ Manuela Ivone Cunha  96\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Engagements\u003cbr\u003e 5. Serendipitous Involvement: Making Peace in the Geto \/ Federico Neiburg  119\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tactical versus Critical: Indigenizing Public Ethnography \/ Lucas Bessire  138\u003cbr\u003e 7. Experto Crede? A Legal and Political Conundrum \/ Jonathan Benthall  160\u003cbr\u003e 8. Policy Ethnography as a Combat Sport: Analyzing the Welfare State against the Grain \/ Vincent Dubois  184\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Tensions\u003cbr\u003e 9. Academic Freedom at Risk: The Occasional Worldliness of Scholarly Texts \/ Nadia Abu El-Haj  205\u003cbr\u003e 10. Perils and Prospects of Going Public: Between Academia and Real Life \/ Unni Wikan  228\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ethnography Prosecuted: Facing the Fabulation of Power \/ João Biehl  261\u003cbr\u003e 12. How Publics Shape Ethnographers: Translating across Divided Audiences \/ Sherine Hamdy  287\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Public Afterlife of Ethnography \/ Didier Fassin  311\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  345\u003cbr\u003e Index  349","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866015412567,"sku":"9780822369776","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369776.jpg?v=1722276632","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/if-truth-be-told-9780822369776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}