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

Front Cover -- Epigraph -- The Imposter As Social Theory: Thinking With Gatecrashers, Cheats And Charlatans -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures And Boxes -- Notes On Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Thinking With Imposters: The Imposter As Analytic -- Imposter Moments -- Imposters In Social Theory -- Impostering As Performance -- The Hoax And The Imposters' Critical Potential -- 'natural' Imposters -- Imposters Beyond Deviance -- Thinking With Imposters -- Imposter Dramas -- Conclusion -- References 2 The Desire To Believe And Belong: Wannabes And Their Audience In A North American Cultural Context -- The Art Of Faking: Imposture As Successful Identity Performance -- Two Cases Of Ethnic Impersonation And Their Cultural Context -- 'canada's Most Famous Fake'6: Archibald Belaney Alias Grey Owl -- Truer Than The Real Thing: Imposture And Its Audience -- References -- 3 A Menagerie Of Imposters And Truth-tellers: Diederik Stapel And The Crisis In Psychology -- Introduction -- Fabrication -- Not Unique -- Derailment -- Imposters And Wannabes -- Transparency -- Thinking With Imposters -- Epilogue Coda: Imitation Of Death -- Cheryl Crane (2012) -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Natural Imposters? A Cuckoo View Of Social Relations -- Introducing The Common Cuckoo: 'the Quintessential Cheat'? -- The Cuckoo In Entanglement With Heartfelt Matters -- Reproductive Relations -- Familial Relations -- Intimate Relations -- The Cuckoo: An Imposter Entangled? -- Reproductive -- Familial -- Intimate -- Summary -- Cuckoo! The Upshot Of Unsettling Reproductive, Familial And Intimate Relations -- References -- 7 Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions Of Mundanity -- Motley Impostures Skilful Deceptions? -- Brian-the-conjuror: Cultural Beliefs And The Constitution Of Skill -- Brian-the-conjuror: Scientific Insights And The Constitution Of Perception -- References -- 8 States Of Imposture: Scroungerphobia And The Choreography Of Suspicion -- Introduction -- Scroungerphobia And The Anxieties Of Imposition -- Welfare-to-work And Behavioural Conditionality -- Street-level Ethnography -- 'scroungerphobia' And The Uncertain Drama Of Suspicion -- Managerialism, Verification And The Administration Of Suspicion -- States Of Imposture -- Disordering The Welfare State -- References Edited By Steve Woolgar, Else Vogel, David Moats And Claes-fredrik Helgesson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.