The Stigmatized Vernacular : Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability / edited by Diane E. Goldstein and Amy Shuman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shuman, Amy, 1951- editor.

Goldstein, Diane E., editor.

Series:

Encounters: explorations in folklore and ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Social aspects.

Folklore.

Stigma (Social psychology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Summary:

As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly reflexive concerns dealing with what can't be said when working with stigmatized groups or topics. The disciplinary focus of folklore positions us well to concentrate on the vernacular experience of the stigmatized, but it also propels us toward analysis of the performance of stigma, the process of stigmatization, and the political representation of stigmatized populations. These perspectives come to the fore in this book, as does the multilayered nature of stigma - its ability to reproduce, overlap, and spread, not just in terms of replication but also in terms of the ethnographer's ability to apprehend it and her ability to research and write about it.

Contents:

Contents

Introduction: The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability

1 “It’s Really Hard to Tell the True Story of Tobacco”: Stigma, Tellability, and Reflexive Scholarship

2 Contextualization, Reflexivity, and the Study of Diabetes-Related Stigma

3 Rethinking Ventriloquism: Untellability, Chaotic Narratives, Social Justice, and the Choice to Speak For, About, and Without

4 The Stigmatized Vernacular: Political Asylum and the Politics of Visibility/Recognition

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253024435

0253024439

OCLC:

957581227