Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: When Ethnography Goes Public 1
4. Part I. Strategies
5. 1 Gopher, Translator, and Trickster: The Ethnographer and the Media 19
6. 2 What Is a Public Intervention? Speaking Truth to the Oppressed 47
7. 3 Before the Commission: Ethnography as Public Testimony 69
8. 4 Addressing Policy-Oriented Audiences: Relevance and Persuasiveness 96
9. Part II. Engagements
10. 5 Serendipitous Involvement: Making Peace in the Geto 119
11. 6 Tactical versus Critical: Indigenizing Public Ethnography 138
12. 7 Experto Crede? A Legal and Political Conundrum 160
13. 8 Policy Ethnography as a Combat Sport: Analyzing the Welfare State against the Grain 184
14. Part III. Tensions
15. 9 Academic Freedom at Risk: The Occasional Worldliness of Scholarly Texts 205
16. 10 Perils and Prospects of Going Public: Between Academia and Real Life 228
17. 11 Ethnography Prosecuted: Facing the Fabulation of Power 261
18. 12 How Publics Shape Ethnographers: Translating across Divided Audiences 287
19. Epilogue: The Public Afterlife of Ethnography 311
20. Contributors 345
21. Index 349