Annenberg's Paul Falzone Published in Transforming Anthropology

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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Annenberg Ph.D. candidate Paul Falzone published an article in the April issue of Transforming Anthropology (Vol. 16, Issue 1, pages 55-67) titled, “Speaking (un)Truth to Power: Fish Tales from the Ethnographic Front”.
Abstract:
This article represents ethnographic reflections on an activist/artistic enterprise. It transgresses the boundaries of method, ethics and civility to transcend the limitations of the "Ethnographic U Turn" in critical/cultural approaches. On one level, it is the ethnographic account of field research undertaken with a group of media pranksters known as the Yes Men. On quite another level, it is an indictment of ethnography's failure to live up to its radical democratic potential. Taken in its entirety, it is a performative provocation intended to offend the average reader and incite the uncommon one to acts of institutional mutiny and methodological (r)evolution.