Avery Gordon: 4 books
Keeping Good Time
Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
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...
Avery F. Gordon
Notizen für den Breitenau-Raum von The Workhouse - ein Projekt von Ines Schaber und Avery Gordon (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 041)
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In diesem Notizbuch beschäftigt sich Gordon mit Breitenau, einem Benediktinerkloster aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, 20 Kilometer südlich von Kassel gelegen, das für unterschiedlichste Zwecke genutzt wurde und seit dem 19. Jahrhundert als Ort der Gefangenschaft und »Umerziehung« diente. 1874 wurde es...
Ghostly Matters
Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
“Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly...
by Cedric J. Robinson, Avery F. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin...