'Documenting Impossible Realities' explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an 'above ground' inhabited by dominant groups and an 'underground' to which unauthorised immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, the authors focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realised.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2023.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 24, 2023).
Contents
Counterfeiting Reality : Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday Belongings
Fieldsight : Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law
Schrödinger's Cat : The "Missing Middle," Discredited Histories, and Measurement Problems
The Search for a "Back" : Archivists of Memory
Beyond "Spooky Action at a Distance" : An Ethnography of the Future.
ISBN
1-5017-6887-5
1-5017-6886-7
OCLC
1372399295
1348644511
Doi
10.1515/9781501768866
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