1st Edition
Doubting Ghosts Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief
Introduction 1. Creaky Floorboards and Flat Worlds: The Politics of Belief in the 21st Century 2. Laughing in the Face of Rationality: Paranormal Humor and the Recognition of Multiple Subjectivities 3. Enchanted Electricity: Theorizing the Paranormal 4. Doubtful Spirits: Critiquing Mediums 5. Visualizing the Heebie-Jeebies: Technologies of Detection and the Production of Anomalies 6. Everyday Eruptions: Conspiracy Theorizing and the Power of Doubt Conclusion
Biography
Michele Hanks is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University. She is interested in people’s experiences of conviction and doubt. This has led to her to conduct ethnographic fieldwork with paranormal investigators in England. More recently, she has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork with psychics in the US to understand the affective and political dynamics of their labor. She is the author of Haunted Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past (2015).
