Resonance of Unseen Things

Lepselter, Susan

doi:10.26530/oapen_608301

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“…The work on ‘social paranoia’ (Shapiro ; cf. Taussig ; Lepselter ), for example, provides an empirically distant yet analytically resonant analogy of my interlocutors’ approach to their surroundings as an intense attention to what is ‘really’ seen to be going on within the areas of social and political life that are hidden to me (Shapiro : 80). In the case of social paranoia, however, social interaction and interpretation is noticeably haunted by doubt.…”

Section: The Hermeneutics Of Social Suspicionmentioning

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Lives opposed: perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime

Vigh

2018

Soc Anthropol

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This article looks at the way people tactically adjust to contexts of insecurity and danger. Building on fieldwork with disenfranchised urban poor in West Africa and marginal West African migrants in Europe, it clarifies how perspectives and practices are attuned to precarious situations and life conditions. The article argues that the struggle to identify threats leads to a nervous sociality in which figures and social forces are examined for hidden intentions and negative potentials. Such circumstances engender an apprehensive bearing, as an affective state, posture and approach, through which social life is sought, investigated and controlled. It augments perceptivity and leads to a scanning and probing of social life that feeds into a social version of the hermeneutics of suspicion and generates a range of pre‐emptive practices.

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Section: The Hermeneutics Of Social Suspicionmentioning

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Lives opposed: perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime

Vigh

2018

Soc Anthropol

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Language, Embodiment and Anomalous Experience

Ironside

Wooffitt

2021

Making Sense of the Paranormal

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Respecifying Fieldwork: Refused Knowledge Communities Explored Through the Reflexive Lens

Morsello

2024

Manufacturing Refused Knowledge in the Age of Epistemic Pluralism

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This chapter offers a reflexive account of the overall fieldwork conducted by the research team into the four refused knowledge communities (RKCs). A reflexive account is particularly important here as refused knowledge followers share a widely held belief that academics in general act as spokespersons for epistemic regimes that they see as responsible for ostracising their knowledge within the public sphere. An additional element making a reflexive account even more urgent is that RKC followers may hold beliefs, values, assumptions and political views in sharp contrast to those of the researchers engaged in the fieldwork. Against this backdrop, by adopting a reflexive stance, this chapter explores the challenges that researchers engaged in studying the RKCs faced in their attempts to negotiate and conduct interviews with refused knowledge followers.

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Resonance of Unseen Things

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Lives opposed: perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime

Lives opposed: perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime

Language, Embodiment and Anomalous Experience

Respecifying Fieldwork: Refused Knowledge Communities Explored Through the Reflexive Lens

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