{"product_id":"documenting-impossible-realities-ethnography-memory-and-the-as-if-hardback-9781501768828","title":"Documenting Impossible Realities; Ethnography, Memory, and the As If (Hardback) 9781501768828","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDocumenting Impossible Realities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEthnography, Memory, and the As If\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Bibler Coutin (Author), Barbara Yngvesson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501768828\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e162 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 2 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDocumenting Impossible Realitie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003es explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 unauthorized 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, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces \u003ci\u003ebetween\u003c\/i\u003e groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, \u003ci\u003eDocumenting Impossible Realities\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the emotional experience of oscillating between being here and gone, legitimate and treated as counterfeit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: \"What Lies Back of the Work\"\u003cbr\u003e 1. Counterfeiting Reality: Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday Belongings\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fieldsight: Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law\u003cbr\u003e 3. Schrödinger's Cat: The \"Missing Middle,\" Discredited Histories, and Measurement Problems\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Search for a \"Back\": Archivists of Memory\u003cbr\u003e 5. Beyond \"Spooky Action at a Distance\": An Ethnography of the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608086704408,"sku":"9781501768828","price":115.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/documenting-impossible-realities-ethnography-memory-and-the-as-if-hardback-9781501768828","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}