Revelations

A Sociology of Uncovering
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-77694-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

From tabloid headlines to scientific discoveries to investigative documentaries, the claim that truth is being revealed is commonplace today. Such attention-grabbing claims can conjure allure, sell products, launch careers, cement authority and much more besides.

And yet, despite the familiarity of revelation-talk, this notion has been subject to limited academic theorizing to date outside of matters divine. Revelations sets out to examine how the making available through revealing is accomplished as well as the implications of revealing. In other words, it is concerned with how revelations are realized and what is realized through them. Central to the argument will be treating attempts to make available as processes that can entail mix – that is, as processes that combine treating truth as publicly demonstrable but also as beyond simple verification, as alternately intelligible but also as unknowable.

In taking the pervasive appeal to revealing as its topic, and through drawing inspiration from a range of disciplines, this book should appeal to a variety of audiences, including those interested in secrecy, conspiracy, expertise, celebrity, science and technology.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rappert, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Reveal

3. Vesting  

4. Becoming

5. Figuring

6. Splitting

7. Staging

8. Revelations Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Rappert is Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs at the University of Exeter. His long-term interest relates to the strategic management of information, particularly in armed conflict. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (2006) and Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits (2007). More recently, he has examined the social, ethical and political issues associated with researching and writing about secrets, as in his books Experimental Secrets (2009), How to Look Good in a War (2012) and Diseases of Secrecy (with Chandre Gould 2017). A recent line of his work has examined the relation between disclosure and concealment through undertaking an autoethnographic study of becoming an entertainment magician – see Performing Deception (2022).