Avery Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, 2nd ed. (Minnesota, 2008), Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People (Paradigm Publishers 2004), and the co-editor of Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Body Politics (Westview 1994). Her work focuses on radical thought and practice and over the last several years, she has been writing about imprisonment, war, and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. Recent scholarly publications have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections. Since 1997, Gordon has co-hosted a weekly public affairs radio program, “No Alibis,” on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara. She is also the Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives.
While at the Academy, Avery worked on a contribution for dOCUMENTA (13). She contributed a small notebook to the publication series 100 Notes—100 Thoughts about the former monastery and prison Breitenau that explores imprisonment as a technology of enclosure in which unwanted people and threatening ideas are confined. The notebook and related research form the basis of her collaboration with Berlin-based artist Ines Schaber’s multi-media installation entitled “The Workhouse,” which focuses on the questions of labor, correction, and reeducation.
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