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SPEAKING (UN)TRUTH TO POWER: FISH TALES FROM THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FRONT
Author(s) -
Falzone Paul
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00006.x
Subject(s) - ethnography , performative utterance , mutiny , sociology , power (physics) , civility , aesthetics , anthropology , media studies , law , philosophy , political science , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
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.