With Apologies for Cross-Posting
We are pleased to invite you to the online launch of the recently published
volume The Imposter as Social Theory edited by Steve Woolgar, Else
Vogel, David
Moats and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson.
Date: 22 September, 16:00-17:30 CET
Registration (no later than 19 September!):
https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/24681
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? This
volume explores the question through a diverse range of empirical cases,
including magicians, spirit possession, fake Instagram followers, fake art
and fraudulent scientists.
The event will include a book presentation by the editors, comments from
distinguished commentators, including Gabriella Coleman and more TBA and a
Q&A session. (Attendees will be offered a limited 50% discount code for the
book.)
For any questions, please contact Else Vogel (e.vogel [at] uva.nl)
For more information about the book:
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-imposter-as-social-theory
An interview with the editors Steve Woolgar and Else Vogel at The Measure
of Everyday Life podcast:
https://measureradio.libsyn.com/imposters-and-society
A blogpost related to the book by penned by the editors:
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/06/04/impostering-a-contemporary-p
reoccupation/
Contents:
Thinking With Imposters: The Imposter As Analytic ~ Else Vogel, David
Moats, Steve Woolgar and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson
The Desire to Believe and Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North
American Cultural Context ~ Caroline Rosenthal
A Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik Stapel and the Crisis
in Psychology ~ Maarten Derksen
Learning From Fakes: A Relational Approach ~ Catelijne Coopmans
Imitations of Celebrity ~ Mandy Merck
Natural Imposters?: A Cuckoos View of Social Relations ~ Martin Abbott and
Daniel Large
Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity ~ Brian
Rappert
States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion~
James Kaufmann
The Face of ‘The Other’: Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters, and the
Art of Outplaying Them ~ Kristina Grünenberg
Faking Spirit Possession: Creating ‘Epistemic Murk’ in Bahian Candomblé
~
Mattijs van de Port
The Guerrilla’s ID Card: Flatland Against Fatland in Colombia ~ Olga
Restrepo Forero and Malcolm Ashmore
Good Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and
Beyond ~ Johan Lindquist
Thinking Beyond the Imposter: Gatecrashing Un/Welcoming Borders ~ Fredy
Mora-Gamez
Postscript: Thinking With Imposters – What Were They Thinking? ~ Agnes,
Forrest Carter, Civet Coffee Bean, Cuckoo, Iansá and Oxum, Sarah Jane, Han
Van Meegeren, David Rosenhahn, Diederik Stapel and Jorge Enrique Briceño
Suárez
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David J Moats
Biträdande Universitetslektor (Research Fellow)
Tema - Technology and Social Change
Linköping University
581 83 Linköping, Sweden
https://liu.se/en/employee/davmo87
+46(0)700895845 - SE
+44(0)7787562607 - UK
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