Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People

by Gordon,Avery

• ISBN13: 9781594510144
• ISBN10: 1594510148
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Keeping Good Time	p. 1
Education During Wartime
Wartime Research: The Front Lines	p. 7
War Machines and Washing Machines	p. 12
On Education During Wartime	p. 18
War on Iraq?	p. 27
Face Up to What's Killing You
Going Inside: The Prison Research Visit	p. 35
We the People	p. 40
Globalism and the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis	p. 46
Face Up to What's Killing You: Fear and the Prison Industrial Complex	p. 57
A Love Story	p. 63
Making a Difference
Alternative Graduation	p. 71
Sociology After Deconstruction	p. 75
Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism	p. 79
Theory and Justice	p. 99
Making a Difference: Women's Studies in the Academy	p. 106
Theses on Teaching Marx	p. 110
Some Thoughts on the Utopian	p. 113
An Anthropology of Marxism	p. 133
No Alibis
State of the Art	p. 147
Will this Election Matter?	p. 149
Corporate Multiculturalism	p. 152
More on Positive and Negative Images: The Case of Kara Walker, Artist	p. 160
The Sledgehammer and the Dagger: A Conversation between Leon Golub and Avery Gordon	p. 163
Wish upon a Star	p. 174
"No Alibis": A Community Radio Collaboration	p. 180
Something More Powerful Than Skepticism	p. 187
Exercised	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 213
Notes	p. 215
Index	p. 237
About the Author	p. 251
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