Imposter as Social Theory

Steve Woolgar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Linköping University and Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Oxford University. Else Vogel is Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam.David Moats is Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. Claes-Fredrik Helgesson is Professor and Research Director at the Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS) at Uppsala University.

• Thinking With Imposters: The Imposter As Analytic ~ Else Vogel, David Moats, Steve Woolgar and Claes-Fredrik HelgessonThe Desire to Believe and Belong: Wannabes and Their Audience in a North American Cultural Context ~ Caroline RosenthalA Menagerie of Imposters and Truth-Tellers: Diederik Stapel and the Crisis in Psychology ~ Maarten DerksenLearning From Fakes: A Relational Approach ~ Catelijne CoopmansImitations of Celebrity ~ Mandy MerckNatural Imposters?: A Cuckoos View of Social Relations ~ Martin Abbott and Daniel LargeConjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity ~ Brian RappertStates of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion~ James KaufmannThe Face of ‘The Other’: Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters, and the Art of Outplaying Them ~ Kristina GrünenbergFaking Spirit Possession: Creating ‘Epistemic Murk’ in Bahian Candomblé ~ Mattijs van de PortThe Guerrilla’s ID Card: Flatland Against Fatland in Colombia ~ Olga Restrepo Forero and Malcolm AshmoreGood Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and Beyond ~ Johan LindquistThinking Beyond the Imposter: Gatecrashing Un/Welcoming Borders ~ Fredy Mora-GamezPostscript: Thinking With Imposters – What Were They Thinking? ~ Agnes, Forrest Carter, Civet Coffee Bean, Cuckoo, Iansá and Oxum, Sarah Jane, Han Van Meegeren, David Rosenhahn, Diederik Stapel and Jorge Enrique Briceño Suárez