List of Figures and Boxes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Boxes vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Preface xiv
6. Thinking with Imposters: The Imposter as Analytic 1
7. The Desire to Believe and Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North American Cultural Context 31
8. A Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik Stapel and the Crisis in Psychology 53
9. Learning from Fakes: A Relational Approach 77
10. Imitations of Celebrity 103
11. Natural Imposters? A Cuckoo View of Social Relations 127
12. Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity 147
13. States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion 171
14. The Face of ‘the Other’: Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters and the Art of Outplaying Them 191
15. Faking Spirit Possession: Creating ‘Epistemic Murk’ in Bahian Candomblé 219
16. The Guerrilla’s ID Card: Flatland against Fatland in Colombia 237
17. Good Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and Beyond 269
18. Thinking beyond the Imposter: Gatecrashing Un/Welcoming Borders 293
19. Postscript: Thinking with Imposters – What Were They Thinking? 317
20. Index 329