Documenting impossible realities : ethnography, memory, and the as if / Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson.

Author
Coutin, Susan Bibler [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Description
1 online resource (162 pages)

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Series
Cornell scholarship online. [More in this series]
Summary note
'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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