Practices of Truth
An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts
1st Edition
Published on 26. October 2011
XIV, 173 pages
978-90-272-8465-5 (ISBN)
Description
The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a "member phenomenon". To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events, on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality, causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecification this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding the question of morality in ordinary reasoning, and the categories and categorizations on which that morality is based: moral values are publicly available; morality has a modal logic; moral values and conventions have an open texture; objectivity is a practical achievement carried out by members of society; the moral order is an omnipresent, constitutive characteristic of social practice.
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Content
- Practices of Truth
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Learning the truth
- Remarks on Foucault and the school institution
- Frame and context
- The production of context
- Positioning, moves and activities
- Body, gesture, rhythm, and memorization
- Learning and disciplining in action
- Chapter 2. The context of truth practices
- Background knowledge, context and reasonable adequacy requirement
- Institutional and parliamentary context and background knowledge
- Context as constraint
- Orienting to audiences
- Looking for political and legislative relevance
- Procedural rules as constraints and resources
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Telling the truth
- The nature of Islamic law
- Searching for law in Islam
- Rephrasing the question
- Re-specifying the sociological study of Islamic law
- Law on the books and law in action
- The 'missing what' of law-and-society and legal-statistical research on law
- Hyper-explanation vs. description of situated activities
- The praxiological study of Islamic law: Egyptian cases
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. The truth about oneself
- Al-Jazeera: Testimonial voices
- Al-Manar: Fiction and news reporting in support of a militant text
- Al-Hurra: The model of the advertising clip
- Choosing channels, identifying spots: The work of data collection
- Anthropology of televised reading: Words and images for an endogenous categorization
- Natural reading and instructed reading: When the channels represent themselves on the web
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Speaking the truth
- The practical grammar of contrasted video-clips about terror
- Shots
- Sequences
- Narratives
- Sounds and music
- The categorical organization of narratives
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6. Narratives of truth
- The general script
- Embedded events
- Documentary films as truth-producing engines
- Conclusion. Truth
- Bibliography
- Index
