Avery Gordon, Angela Davis

Keeping Good Time

Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People

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Produktbeschreibung

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were 'written to be read aloud'. Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time explores the meaning of being a politically engaged scholar during deeply troubled times. The book's essays consider the role of education during war time, the costs of imprisonment and repression, the power of utopianism in an age of globalization, the complexities of gendered racism, the politics of culture, and the practice of theory as it emerges from everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781594510144
• ISBN-10: 1594510148
• Artikelnr.: 21247763

Autorenporträt

Avery Gordon, Angela Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Keeping Good Time
Part I Education During Wartime
Chapter 1 Wartime Research: The Front Lines
Chapter 2 War Machines and Washing Machines
Chapter 3 On Education During Wartime
Chapter 4 War on Iraq?
Part II Face Up to What's Killing You
Chapter 5 Going Inside: The Prison Research Visit
Chapter 6 We the People
Chapter 7 Globalism and the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis
Chapter 8 "Face Up to What's Killing You": Fear and the Prison Industrial Complex
Chapter 9 A Love Story
Part III Making a Difference
Chapter 10 Alternative Graduation
Chapter 11 Sociology After Reconstruction
Chapter 12 Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism
Chapter 13 Theory and Justice
Chapter 14 Making a Difference: Women's Studies in the Academy
Chapter 15 Theses on Teaching Marx
Chapter 16 Some Thoughts on the Utopian
Chapter 17 An Anthropology of Marxism
Part IV No Alibis
Chapter 18 State of the Art
Chapter 19 Will this Election Matter?
Chapter 20 Corporate Multiculturalism
Chapter 21 More on Positive and Negative Images: The Case of Kara Walker, Artist
Chapter 22 The Sledgehammer and the Dagger: A Conversation Between Leon Golub and Avery Gordon
Chapter 23 Wish Upon a Star
Chapter 24 "No Alibis": A Community Radio Collaboration
Chapter 25 Something More Powerful Than Skepticism