Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author and editor of many books, most recently, Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition.

Introduction: When Ethnography Goes Public / Didier Fassin  1
Part I. Strategies
1. Gopher, Translator, and Trickster: The Ethnographer and the Media / Gabriella Coleman  19
2. What Is a Public Intervention? Speaking Truth to the Oppressed / Ghassan Hage  47
3. Before the Commission: Ethnography as Pubic Testimony / Kelly Gillespie  69
4. Addressing Policy-Oriented Audiences: Relevance and Persuasiveness / Manuela Ivone Cunha  96
Part II. Engagements
5. Serendipitous Involvement: Making Peace in the Geto / Federico Neiburg  119
6. Tactical versus Critical: Indigenizing Public Ethnography / Lucas Bessire  138
7. Experto Crede? A Legal and Political Conundrum / Jonathan Benthall  160
8. Policy Ethnography as a Combat Sport: Analyzing the Welfare State against the Grain / Vincent Dubois  184
Part III. Tensions
9. Academic Freedom at Risk: The Occasional Worldliness of Scholarly Texts / Nadia Abu El-Haj  205
10. Perils and Prospects of Going Public: Between Academia and Real Life / Unni Wikan  228
11. Ethnography Prosecuted: Facing the Fabulation of Power / João Biehl  261
12. How Publics Shape Ethnographers: Translating across Divided Audiences / Sherine Hamdy  287
Epilogue: The Public Afterlife of Ethnography / Didier Fassin  311
Contributors  345
Index  349

Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author and editor of many books, most recently, Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition.