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Reading paperwork realistically

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dc.contributor.authorCheesman, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-09T03:31:04Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:34:18Z
dc.description.abstractAccording to Steven Lubet, documentation freezes facts in time. For this reason, it is, he thinks, more reliable than other kinds of evidence. That makes it especially useful for fact checking. However, this is not a realistic way to read for evidence in documents. It ignores or downplays a crucial fact that inheres to all paperwork, which ethnographers have long heeded: documents do not report on facts; they render them. Ethnographically informed readings of paperwork that attend both to facts and to how they are rendered are, by contrast, realistic. In this contribution, I discuss why and illustrate with reference to two studies of policing and law in Thailand.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2156-5503en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/282622
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourcePolitics, Groups, and Identitiesen_AU
dc.subjectSteven Lubeten_AU
dc.subjectpaperworken_AU
dc.subjectrealismen_AU
dc.subjectstate violenceen_AU
dc.subjectThailanden_AU
dc.subjectethnographyen_AU
dc.titleReading paperwork realisticallyen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage840en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage835en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCheesman, Nick, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidCheesman, Nick, u3214285en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor480499 - Law in context not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.absseo280117 - Expanding knowledge in law and legal studiesen_AU
local.identifier.absseo280123 - Expanding knowledge in human societyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo230499 - Justice and the law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5412248xPUB482en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume9en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/21565503.2021.1960869en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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