... The ethnographic fictions here, all concerning the HIV epidemic in South Africa, engage with the generative apparatus of everyday understandings of what it means to live in a country where life expectancy can plunge for humans while domestic animals, at least in certain neighborhoods, eat so...

... South Africa HIV/AIDS denialism ethnographic fiction ...

... This interlude reflects on the crucial relevance of fiction as a literary genre and as a mode of expression in ethnographic writing. ethnography fiction reality expression ...

... This essay concerns the juxtaposition of literary techniques of showing and academic methods of knowing in ethnographic writing. To combine different modes of writing in the same text—descriptive and analytical, fictional and factual—broaches ethical and discursive questions...

... and fiction in the Writing Culture debate to explore the question of ethnographic “emergence” as literary nonfiction. genocide analogue literary nonfiction ...

... Chapter 8 examines protracted statelessness among highlanders in northern Thailand, a context of ostensibly stable citizenship law and rationalized bureaucracy. By coupling intensive ethnographic research with extensive survey data, Amanda Flaim locates the reproduction of statelessness...

... and institutional critique get imaginatively rerouted through Green’s diasporic journeys across Black Atlantic spaces, it is argued that rather than the influential “artist as ethnographer” model, gender-inflected considerations of the female flâneuse and epistolary modes of documentation give us a deeper...

... Detective stories, science fiction, and the advocacy of social justice through revisionary mythopoeisis are different modes of exploring the anxieties and tensions embedded in future thinking, and of deciphering the strangeness of the present by plumbing the rationalities and the technologies...

... simultaneously to reshape the social fabric and landscape of Metro Manila. Through an ethnographic investigation of transnational realtors, Filipino American investors, and business process outsourcing employees, this chapter utilizes the case of Metro Manila to demonstrate how the forces compelling...

... ethnography fiction reality expression ...