Fabricating Authenticity

<p><em>Fabricating Authenticity</em> expands on revised <em>Culture on the Edge</em> blog posts where group members focus on claims of authenticity and how they are employed. Authenticity is examined as a socially contested and constructed label used to manage and codify a variety of choices in relation to understandings of identity formation.</p><p></p><p>The main chapters in this volume draw on a variety of sites, topics, and case studies to explore what is at stake in claims of authenticity. Building on these chapters, <em>Fabricating Authenticity</em> engages fourteen early career scholars to respond, critique, and press further the approaches and arguments put forth by members of <em>Culture on the Edge</em>. Following the format of the earlier volumes in the Working with Culture on the Edge series, the introduction and afterword provide a substantive, theoretical analysis on the discourse of authenticity. </p><p></p><p><em>Fabricating Authenticity</em> explores everyday examples that work as productive conversation-starters for those wanting to complicate and examine authenticity claims, making this an ideal volume for the introductory classroom and beyond.</p>