The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans

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Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans

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Edited by Steve Woolgar, Linköpings universitet, Sweden, Else Vogel, Linköpings universitet, Sweden, David Moats, Linköpings universitet, Sweden, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: December 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781529213102
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529213102

Subjects:: History of Science, General Science

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Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

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Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Boxes
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xiii

Preface
pp xiv-xvi

1 - Thinking with Imposters: The Imposter as Analytic
pp 1-30

2 - The Desire to Believe and Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North American Cultural Context
pp 31-52

3 - A Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik Stapel and the Crisis in Psychology
pp 53-76

4 - Learning from Fakes: A Relational Approach
pp 77-102

5 - Imitations of Celebrity
pp 103-126

6 - Natural Imposters? A Cuckoo View of Social Relations
pp 127-146

7 - Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity
pp 147-170

8 - States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion
pp 171-190

9 - The Face of‘the Other ’: Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters and the Art of Outplaying Them
pp 191-218

10 - Faking Spirit Possession: Creating‘Epistemic Murk ’ in Bahian Candomblé
pp 219-236

11 - The Guerrilla’s ID Card: Flatland against Fatland in Colombia
pp 237-268

12 - Good Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and Beyond
pp 269-292

13 - Thinking beyond the Imposter: Gatecrashing Un/Welcoming Borders
pp 293-316

14 - Postscript: Thinking with Imposters – What Were They Thinking?
pp 317-328

Index
pp 329-333

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