Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People 1317257065, 9781317257066

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and

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Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People
1317257065, 9781317257066

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and pre

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Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the “death of philosophy” and the “death of the subject”

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This book is the autobiography of George Daniels, acclaimed horologist and author of Watchmaking. In it, he discusses hi

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What does it mean for the Sun to call Shami Chakrabarti 'the most dangerous woman in Britain' or the Daily Mai

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"This outstanding book... is a genuinely pivotal contribution to the lively current debate over divine foreknowledg

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Black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with TV as a child

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Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of moveme

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Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping

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To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a naggin

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