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Ghostly Matters
'Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. She shows how fiction writing can sometimes function as a social force, as a repository of memories that are too brutal, to debilitating, and too horrifying to register through direct historical or social science narratives...'--George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego
The Hawthorn Archive
The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a research collection in the conventional sense but rather a disorganized and fugitive space for the development of a political consciousness of being indifferent to the deadly forms of power that characterize our society. Housed by the Archive are autonomous radicals, runaways, abolitionists, commoners, and dreamers who no longer live as obedient or merely resistant subjects. In this innovative, genre- and format-bending publication, Avery F...
Keeping Good Time
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 will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."
Keeping Good Time
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 will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."
Avery F. Gordon
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 zu einem Arbeitshaus, während des Nationalsozialismus zu einem Konzentrationslager, bis in die 1970er Jahre war es eine Besserungsanstalt für Mädchen, und heute ist es eine offene psychiatrische Wohn- und Therapieeinrichtung sowie eine Gedenkstätte, ein Museum und ein Forschungszentrum. Während eines gemeinsamen Besuchs mit der Künstlerin taucht Gordon mit der Hilfe des Mitgründers und Direktors der Gedenkstätte, Gunnar Richter, in die Geschichte Breitenaus ein, erinnert sich an seine Funktion als Ort des Freiheitsentzugs für »ungehorsame soziale Subjekte« und deren Ideen und entwickelt »eine Art Enzyklopädie des Häftlings«. Avery F. Gordon ist Professorin für Soziologie an der University of California, Santa Barbara, und Visiting Faculty am Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, an der University of London. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Mapping Multiculturalism
This is a book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection that will generate a great deal of penetrating discussion on a broad range of fronts.
A Companion to Public History
An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public his...
Haunting and the Educational Imagination
In a time when it seems like we've run into the limits on what Marx, Dewey, and Freud might hold for liberatory critique, this peculiarly uplifting book seeks to identify some promising thinking and teaching practices, especially for work in our contemporary “corporate university of excellence.” With auto-ethnography as a baseline for reflection on her personal teaching life in this troubling political era, as well as an insistence that all students are future teachers whether they seek formal work in classrooms or not, Barbara Regenspan selects insights descending from her horribly imperfect trinity (Marx, Dewey, and Freud), to revaluate what it means to have “obligations to unknowabl...
He who Searches
A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early morning hours on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all it is about Argentina: its recent history, its 30,000 missing children, its stunned middle class, its writers in exile. He Who Searches is multifaceted in structure, combining narrative references to old-fashioned storytelling, realism, psychoanalysis, feminism, politics, and suspense, all of them tinged with a patina of eroticism that reflects a feminist perspective. Ultimately the disguises of the plot--transvestism, transsexualism, differing sexual points of view--become pieces in a puzzle tha can be taken apart to create other figures, other puzzles. It ends with its narrator back in Buenos Aires: He who searches, finds.
