Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People

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.

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