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American academic and writer

Avery Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination.

Early life

Gordon grew up in Florida, then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She earned a doctorate from Boston College.

Career

Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination. She has also been a visiting Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College University of London (2008-2013) and visiting professor at Birkbeck School of Law University of London. In 2012, she was the Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her writings have been featured in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections. Gordon’s work centers on radical thought and practice, the utopian, haunting and forms of dispossession.

Gordon co-hosts "No Alibis" with Elizabeth Robinson and Marisela Marquez on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara; a weekly radio program with discussions and interviews about domestic and international affairs.

Bibliography

  • The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (2017, Fordham University Press)
  • Avery F. Gordon: Notes for the Workhouse: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 041 (2012, Hatje Cantz Publishers)
  • Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People (2004, Routledge)
  • Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (1997, University of Minnesota Press)

References

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  2. "Revolutionary Feminisms: Avery F. Gordon". Verso. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. "Avery Gordon". American Academy. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  4. ^ "The Hawthorn Archive – Avery F. Gordon". Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  5. "Panel Discussion: Blackness - Ghosts of Past, Present and Future". Camden Art Centre. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
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  7. "KCSB-FM". KCSB FM - KCSB FM, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  8. "No Alibis". soundtap.com. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  9. Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019). "The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the utopian margins by Avery F. Gordon". Race & Class. 61: 93–96. doi:10.1177/0306396819856216. S2CID 198796114.
  10. Agger, Ben. "Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People." Contemporary Sociology 34.6 (2005): 681.
  11. Smith, Dorothy E. "Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination." Contemporary Sociology 28.1 (1999): 120.
  12. Van Wagenen, Aimee (2004). "An Epistemology of Haunting: A Review Essay". Critical Sociology. 30 (2): 287–298. doi:10.1163/156916304323072116. S2CID 220916041.
  13. Pors, Justine Grønbæk, Lena Olaison, and Birke Otto. "Ghostly matters in organizing." Ephemera. Critical Dialogs on Organization19.1 (2019): 1-29.
  14. Overend, Alissa (2014-02-01). "Haunting and the ghostly matters of undefined illness". Social Theory & Health. 12 (1): 63–83. doi:10.1057/sth.2013.20. ISSN 1477-822X. S2CID 256515021.
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