A book which takes on current political and social issues, from torture and moral panics to the "AIDS plague". The essays in the book go beyond analysis and point to ways in which the societies they identify can be improved, rebuilt or redirected towards goals other than power, social discipline, inequality and violence.

Body Politics: Disease, Desire, And The Family (Political Culture Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gordon, Avery

Ryan, Michael L

Social Sciences

Westview Press

Body Politics: Disease, Desire, And The Family (Politics and Culture)

An Atlas of Radical Cartography makes an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism. It pairs writers with artists, architects, designers and collectives to address the role of the map as political agent (rather than neutral document). Ten mapping projects dealing with social and political issues such as migration, incarceration, globalization, housing rights, garbage and energy issues are complemented by 10 critical essays and dialogues responding to each map. The maps themselves are printed as posters, unbound for leisurely perusal. Among the contributors are artists Trevor Paglen, John Emerson, Ashley Hunt and Pedro Lasch and essayists Avery Gordon, Heather Rogers, Alejandro De Acosta and Jenny Price. An Atlas of Radical Cartography also serves as a catalogue to the exhibition An Atlas, which has been touring the United States and internationally since July of 2007.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography

Sen, Jai

Rogers, Heather

Price, Jenny

Lewison, Sarah

Casas, Maribel

Cobbarubias, Sebastian

De Acosta, Alejandro

Abramsky, Kolya

Arts & Photography

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press

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: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People

Leon GOLUB

Paradigm Publishers

In this notebook, sociology professor Avery F. Gordon offers a portrait of Breitenau, a twelfth-century Benedictine monastery located twenty kilometers south of Kassel. Turned into a workhouse in 1874, Breitenau became a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War, then a girls' reformatory until the 1970s, and is now an open psychiatric residential treatment facility and a rehabilitation center, as well as a Gedenkstätte memorial and research center. Here, Gordon, with the help of the memorial's cofounder and director Gunnar Richter, recalls Breitenau's function as a place for the enclosure of "disobedient social subjects," developing "a kind of encyclopedia of the prisoner."

Avery F. Gordon: Notes for The Workhouse: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 041 (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken: Documenta 13)

Reference

Hatje Cantz

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