Not quite, but here is a rare occasion where my professional life has *some* connection with fantastical, gameable content.
Later this year - just in time for your Christmas lists, hopefully - Routledge will publish a book I have written with Jamie Lewis on the sociology of Bigfooting.
To be fair, Jamie did most of the actual research, which involved well over a hundred interviews with Bigfooters - current, former, and even disillusioned - as well as a other people in the orbit of knowledge making re: Bigfoot - sceptics, academics, etc. What we have tried to do is reconstruct the rationality of Bigfooting as a knowledge making community, to treat it fairly and seriously, as Bigfooters themselves take the subject seriously.
Awesome! You should send a copy to Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology for a review, his takes on cryptozoology are always sympathetic and interesting. :-)
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Jamie has interviewed Naish, and I'd certainly be interested in his take on the book when it is out.
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