Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.46692/9781529213102.009
James Kaufman
This chapter explores the choreography of suspicion in welfare to work services. It is concerned with the bureaucratic manifestations of a policy discourse preoccupied with ‘scroungers’, benefit fraud and deception. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it attends to the everyday encounters through which such suspicions were enacted and experienced. The chapter argues that a regime of behavioural welfare conditionality effectively formalised suspicion as a matter of policy and practice, and in so doing undermined the claims made by welfare to work services to be sources of help and support. Ironically, once formalized, and by undermining the ostensible service aims, this suspicion also rendered the welfare bureaucrats as potential fakes and frauds.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529213072.003.0009
K. Grünenberg
In this chapter, I argue that the work done to of detect spoofers that takes place in biometric laboratories means that biometric researchers need to impersonate potential imposters in order to develop, what I have called ‘algorithmic traps’ to detect them. In this context, rather than simply being antagonists, researchers, public spoofers and hackers, and not least imagined spoofers, all enter into a form of symbiotic ‘mimesis’, a never to be resolved process of impostering that becomes productive in shoring up the funding for new biometric research and that further legitimizes the continuous search for what I call safer, more secure and seamless ‘bio-machines of security’.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.5040/9781911239819.ch-003
M. Merck
One of the most abiding anxieties about contemporary celebrity culture is that it encourages the emulation of impossible or unsuitable role models. While moralists on the right and left denounce the inculcation of false values, absurd ambition and political misjudgement supposedly caused by celebrity imitation, film scholars have defended the creativity in fans’ mimetic responses to the stars they admire. As Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel Imitation of Life and its 1934 and 1959 film adaptations suggest, both the ontological and the ethical status of ‘imitation’ vary, putting into question any simple condemnation of the ‘imitation of life’.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.46692/9781529213102.003
Caroline Rosenthal
The chapter discusses two cases of ethnic impersonation, that of Asa/Forrest Carter, a white supremacist from Alabama who pretended to be Cherokee, and that of Archibald Belaney, an Englishman who in Canada took on the identity of the half-blood Indian Grey Owl. The focus lies on an analysis of the respective cultural context and the motivations of the audiences to believe in those acts of imposture out of a desire to belong nationally and culturally. For Canadians, Grey Owl transformed the no-man's land of Canada into a "true" North and gave the young nation a way to imagine itself apart from the British motherland. Audiences in America bought Asa Carter’s act because he appealed to populism and the anti-intellectualism of the common man. Carter reached his audience because he identified their deepest racial stereotypes, resentments, and fears. The exposure of both men, then, reveals the dark underside of North American national myths.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.46692/9781529213102.008
B. Rappert
This chapter examines how entertainment magic and the notion of impostering can inform each other. It does so through considering how assessments of skill and perception are constituted in interactions between performers and audiences. A main plank of the argument derives from a self-study of the acquisition of skill.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.46692/9781529213102.007
Martin Abbott, Daniel Large
Avian brood parasites like the cuckoo lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. This reproductive strategy has fascinated peoples around the world for millennia. Fascination with the cuckoo is animated by uncertainty about how to understand the bird’s behaviour, which offends norms of reproductive, familial, and intimate conduct. In these heartfelt matters, the cuckoo’s nesting behaviour is entangled with preoccupations of imposture. To analyse how this entanglement works, the chapter draws on select passages that reference the bird from The Midwich Cuckoos, Wuthering Heights, and Othello: The Moor of Venice. In these texts, the cuckoo’s entanglement with imposture ruptures social and moral orders and casts characters’ values and commitments in a new light, making it an evocative and enduring literary device for re-envisioning social relations from a cuckoo perspective.
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Agnes, Forrest S. Carter, Civet Coffee Bean, Cuckoo, Iansá, Oxum, Sarah Jane, Han van Meegeren, David Rosenhahn, D. Stapel, Jorge Enrique Briceño Suárez
The authorship of the postscript is unclear. It is, allegedly, written by a roster of Imposters that feature in the previous chapters of the volume. Yet, it also contains the transcript of a conversation between Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman and Alan Sokal. And, in a twist, the editors of the volume themselves appear as part of this exchange. Hence, the ambiguous identity of the authorial ‘we’, underscoring the indeterminancy characteristic of the imposter phenomenon. Despite the lack of a clear provenance, the postscript provides a bookend to a volume teeming with examples of the significance of the imposter for rethinking social theory. The postscript additionally suggests that the figure of the imposter offers a challenge to the very idea of social theory. The figure of the imposter requires us to think and see social and cultural forms differently.
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Pub Date : 2013-07-19DOI: 10.7765/9781847793331.00004
Susan Park
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{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1p6hphs.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1p6hphs.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358805,"journal":{"name":"The Imposter as Social Theory","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134120971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1p6hphs.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1p6hphs.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358805,"journal":{"name":"The Imposter as Social Theory","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132403721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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