Crumpled Paper Boat Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

"In a 'post-truth' world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it." - Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani (LSE Review of Books) "There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off." - Ursula Lang (Antipode) "This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one's own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress." - Paloma Gay y Blasco (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking." - David Syring (Anthropology and Humanism) "The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.... The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real." - Jason Danely (Anthropology Book Forum)